UVic Living Lab Project science adventure

Digital Scholarship Commons and Science Venture

We were able to spend the last part of our Science Camp with UVIC’s Digital Scholarship Commons and Science Venture.

Dr Matt Huculak and his team introduced the youth to coding and circuit boarding.

Digital Scholarship Commons with Dr. Matt Huculak and team

 

Dr Matt Huculak introducing Angelina Sam to circuit boarding. Digital Scholarship Commons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Scholarship Commons – Arduino cart for circuit boarding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda-Jane Fisher and Angelina Sam coding to prepare for the circuit boards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ladies and coding and circuit boarding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circuit boarding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Huculack and Songhees youth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logan Louie and Phoenix Clark getting their circuit boards ready to be coded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logan and Phoenix making NOISE with their circuit boards.  First, they had to code a program, then they prepared their circuit boards and finally programmed them to work together. This particular contraption made a very interesting sound.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Matt Huculak, his assistants and Songhees Youth at the Digital Scholarship Commons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science Venture with Yamila Franco Pena and Team

 

Yamila Franco Pena and Songhees Youth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science Venture volunteers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing with some virtual reality tech.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda-Jane Fisher and Angelina Sam doing some VR (virtual reality).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logan Louie and Science Venture playing in the sandbox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandbox – virtual reality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using some tech.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tech time with Science Venture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phoenix Clark, Angelina Sam and Cynthia Sam – tech time with Science Venture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yamila Franco Pena with Science Venture wraps up our tech time with Songhees Youth.

UVic Living Lab Project students

Local History with Nick Claxton and John Lutz

Local History with Dr John Lutz and Dr Nick Claxton.

John showed the youth historical maps.  He talked about the importance of maps and our right to fight for our traditional food systems. Nick taught us about the importance of bringing back our traditional foods practices. He spoke of how his community brought back an ancient fishing practice.  Both John and Nick gave some historical background to the treaty process.

 

Dr John Lutz introducing the youth the historical maps and treaty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cynthia Sam, Angelina Sam, Linda-Jane Fisher & Logan Louie studying maps with John and group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logan Louie, Rayn Cook-Thomas and Phoenix Clark studying old maps of the City of Victoria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Nick Claxton telling the Songhees youth why he chose to focus on the reef net fisheries.

He learned all he could from his elders and focussed all his studies on bringing back the reef net fishing techniques.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nick Claxton done some intensive work with his community to prepare for the work his elders wanted from him – bring back the reef net fisheries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not only did Nick focus all his work on the reef net fishing, he worked very hard to bring back oral history and teachings from his elders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent presentation by Nick Claxton on reef net fisheries.