Science North!!!! I had heard so much about Science North, and we had been seeing their booths set up all across northern Ontario. And I was not disappointed. We had an easy set up in “the cavern”, which looked exactly as it sounds like. A large room underground, with natural rock walls. The amazing architecture complemented their exhibits perfectly. I loved that Science North is also an accredited zoo, with beavers, porcupines, bats, frogs, turtles and more! The whole team had such a fun time exploring the science centre.
Did I mention that Science North is located right on Ramsey Lake?! Gorgeous location that we were luckily enough to explore by waterski boat! We spent our whole day off on the water, learning how to waterski, wakesurf and knee board. Of course then we had to spend the whole night recovering with a hot tub/sauna/hot tub/pool/sauna/pool/hot tub/sauna/hot tub/pool combo. Not sure I got the complete order right. Here are some photos of Nick learning to wake surf and knee board!
And in case that wasn’t enough, Sudbury still had more to offer us! The whole crew got the opportunity to go to SNO lab. A Nobel Prize winning lab that is 2 km underground in an active nickel mine. Such a neat experience to be able to go underground with the miners, then walk a kilometre to the clean lab where we had to shower and put on clean clothes to even enter the lab! Especially fun that we went underground with more from our Innovation 150 team that travelled all the way from the Perimeter Institute as well as our Life Hacks contest winner! We weren’t allowed to bring our phones down to take photos, but here are a few from my action camera:
Sudbury was a lot of fun for us, both socially and at work. We had such a good reception at Science North, busy the entire time we were there with people of all age groups with great questions! Overall, a great stop for the Power of Ideas crew.