Soapbox Science 2017
Soapbox Science, a unique science outreach program started in the U.K. in 2011 was launched in North America on May 13, 2017 during Science Rendezvous at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto.
We had so much fun that we ran it again at Harbourfront Centre, during Word on the Street (external link) on September 24, 2017.
What better way to bring science to the streets than at a street festival all about literacy? Hosted along the waterfront at Harbourfront Centre, Word on the Street brought together the finest talent in Canadian Literature. We teamed up with the Ontario Science Centre to bring Soapbox Science to Toronto again. This time, Canadian scientists added their voices to the amazing line-up of speakers & authors.
Our stupendous Soapbox Scientists discussed everything from how your eye develops to galactic star formations.
Soapbox Speakers
![Headshot of Dr. Dawn Bazely for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Dawn Bazely web.jpg)
Professor, Biology Department
York University
How do I know if that plant is poisonous?
![Headshot of Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Emma web.jpg)
Associate Professor
University of Guelph
How to become a good Microbe Manager
![Headshot of Dr. Nikolina Radulovich for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Niki Radulovich web.jpg)
Scientific Associate
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Building "Cancer Avatars" to quickly discover effective treatments
![Headshot of Tahani Alnami for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Tahani Alnami thumbnail.jpg)
PhD Student
University of Toronto
How do we see this beautiful world?
![Headshot of Young Lee for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/e Young Lee.jpg)
Medical Physicist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Radiotherapy Medical Physicist? Who is that?
![Headshot of Melissa Galati](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/MelissaGalati_headshot.jpg)
PhD Student
The Hospital For Sick Children & University of Toronto
Why aren’t cancer treatments “one-size fits all?
![Headshot of Dr. Lynda McCarthy for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Lynda McCarthy web.jpg)
Professor
Ryerson University
Together - let's make the Great Lakes great again!
![Headshot of Dr. Nadia Octave for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/NadiaOctave web.jpg)
Medical Physicist
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval
High energy photons to treat cancer
![Headshot of Marina Freire-Gormaly for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Marina web.jpg)
PhD Candidate, Water and Energy Research Lab,
University of Toronto
Water Treatment using Solar Power for Remote Communities who Lack Access to Clean Drinking Water
![Headshot of Soapbox Science Speaker Dr. Rachel Ward-Maxwell](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Rachel_Thumbnail.jpg)
Researcher Programmer, Astronomy & Space Sciences
Ontario Science Centre
The Galactic Star Formation Rate Problem
![Headshot of Soapbox Scientist Nadia Tsvetkov](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/NadiaT_Thumbnail.jpg)
PhD Student
York University
Honey Bees and Pesticides in the Field
![Headshot of Ashley Reynolds for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Ashley R. Reynolds.jpg)
PhD Student
University of Toronto & Royal Ontario Museum
Solving purr-plexing mysteries of the sabre-toothed cats
![Headshot of Dr. Stephanie MacQuarrie for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Stephanie web.jpg)
Chemistry Professor
Cape Breton University
Reaping the Unsown Benefits of BioChar
![Headshot of Rosa-Maria Ferraiuolo for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Rosa web.jpg)
Research Associate
University of Windsor
Fishing Our Way to New Cancer Treatments
![Headshot of Malgosia Pakulska for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Malgosia Pakulska web.jpg)
Communications and Development Officer
The Fields Institute, University of Toronto
Using Jello to regenerate the injured spinal cord
![Headshot of Sasha Weiditch for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/SashaWeiditch_thumbnail.jpg)
Ph.D Candidate
University of Toronto, Mississauga
The world's most abundant entity, the bacteriophage, and how it kills bad bacteria in your body, food and more!
![Headshot of Samantha Yammine for Soapbox Science 2017.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Samantha Yammine thumbnail.jpg)
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
How stem cells build & rebuild brains
![Headshot of Dr. Shaalee Sone for Soapbox Science 2017](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/soapbox-science/soapbox_science17/Shaalee_thumbnail.jpg)
PhD Candidate
University of Toronto
How can medicine fix mistakes in our genes?
Soapbox Science at Word on the Street
Gallery
Soapbox Science at Science Rendezvous - May 13, 2017
![Dr. Nadia Octave is standing on her soapbox talking about how high energy photons can treat cancer. A volunteer in a black Soapbox Science t-shirt is holding a few paper with graphs that help with the demonstration.](/content/dam/sciencerendezvous/SRphotos/SR2017SquarePhotoGallery/SR2017WebSitePhotos-34.jpg)
![Dr. Malgosia Pakulska is holding a plastic white funnel with a sticker of a human brain taped on the funnel.](/content/dam/sciencerendezvous/SRphotos/SR2017SquarePhotoGallery/SR2017WebSitePhotos-18.jpg)
![Our Soapbox Science speaker Sasha Weiditch is standing on her soapbox talking about how to train your viral assassin while holding a pink twisty structure with a white ballon on top.](/content/dam/sciencerendezvous/SRphotos/SR2017SquarePhotoGallery/SR2017WebSitePhotos-32.jpg)
![Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe is standing on her soapbox talking about how to be a good microbe manager.](/content/dam/sciencerendezvous/SRphotos/SR2017SquarePhotoGallery/SR2017WebSitePhotos-21.jpg)
Soapbox Science at Word on the Street - September 24, 2017
![Dr. Tahani Baakdhah is standing on the Soapbox holding a few colourful knitted toys while talking to a few people in front of her about how we see this beautiful world.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/News_and_Events/SoapboxScienceWordOnStreet/SSWord2017-4.jpg)
![PhD student Ashley Reynolds standing on the Soapbox while engaging with two children in front of her.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/News_and_Events/SoapboxScienceWordOnStreet/SSWord2017-18.jpg)
![Dr. Rachel Ward-Maxwell standing on the Soapbox while engaging with a group of children and adults in front of her.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/News_and_Events/SoapboxScienceWordOnStreet/SSWord2017-6.jpg)
![PhD candidate Samantha Yammine standing on the Soapbox while engaging with a group of children and adults in front of her.](/content/dam/scixchange/SciXchange_Images/News_and_Events/SoapboxScienceWordOnStreet/SSWord2017-9.jpg)