Camp Photos

X-Oceans Outreach hosts a number of camps and visits classrooms across rural Nova Scotia. Scroll down for some updates on what we have been up to lately.

Some members of the X-Oceans Outreach Team with the new outreach van funded by NSERC PromoScience!
From left to right: Brianna Stewart, Dylan Noonan, D'Vaughn Powell, Codie O'Neil, Kathleen Glasgow, Lauren Viana, Laura Riendeau, Alinta MacLeod, Sarah Rokosh, Savana Delorey, Tavneet Kaur and Samuel Gyamfi. Missing from photo: Victoria Tweedie-Pitre, Gabriel Cozzi, Jennifer Van Den Heuvel, Erin Stevens, Katelyn MacNeil, Maryann Burbidge, Leah Rogers, Russell Wyeth, Tammy Rodela and Regina Cozzi.

Students Practicing Dissections at the Nova Scotia Education Centre

Dissections with Grade 11s at the North Nova Education Centre, April 2023

Grade 10 Students Smiling at the Camera While They are in the Lab

Students Performing Lab Experiments on Shrimp

Brine shrimp experiments with Grade 10s at Northumberland Regional High School, April 2023

Learning about hermit crabs at H.M. MacDonald Elementary School, March 2023

Learning about sea cucumbers and their habitat

School Students Holding Sea Animals at the Paqtnkek Education Centre

Visiting with the Paqtnkek Education Centre, March 2023

Picture of School Students Holding Marine Animals

Inspecting organisms up close

Learning about chitons and their habitat

Science Literacy Week With X-Oceans, Human Nutrition and CMTOLC

Picture of School Students Inspecting Marine Animals and Studying their Body Symmetry

Marine animals and their symmetry

Picture of School Students Sitting on a Table Mapping the Ocean's Floor

Mapping the ocean floor

Picture of Students Showing their Model Mockup of the Ocean Floor

Picture of 2 Students Holding their Model Mockup of the Ocean Floor

Picture of 2 Students Showing their Mockup Model of the Ocean's Floor

Why bees prefer hexagones for their hives

Students Making Hexagon Shapes With Scrapes of Paper

Live bees!

Why measurements are important in cooking and baking.

Students Learning About Fractions Using Pizzas

Designing pizzas and practicing fractions

Fractions in pizza slices

X-Project Day Camp

School Students at the Biology Lab doing Workshops

Group Picture of School Students in a Lab

2 School Students Experimenting with Dyes

School Students Observing and Touching Insects and Ants at the Lab

AG Baille Memorial School Day Trip

Group Picture School Students at the AG Baille Memorial School Trip

Students Around a Pond of a Blue Lobster

Antigonish Education Centre - Ocean Outreach Week

School Teacher Instructing Students on Starfishes

Students at the Lab with the Teacher Observing a Live Animal

Students at the Lab Observing a Live Lobster

DR John H Gillis School Outreach Trips

Group Picture of Students at the Lab Around an Apiary

Students at the Lab Learning with Wood Sticks

School Students Using Protective Gear for Beekeeping

Other Photos

Students Grabbing Starfishes and Sea Urchins

NSERC Promoscience Science Odyssey 2022

Students At the Lab Doing the Potato Experiment

Student With a Chemical Beaker Handling Slimy Red Substance

Students at the Lab Using Protective Gloves and Glasses

Students at the Chemistry Lab Preparing Red Substance Using Beakers

Student Observing a Sample Using a Microscope

Students at the Lab Observing and Manipulating Seed

2 Students Using Protective Gear for Beekeeping

Promotional Poster to Science Oddisey Adventure

Learning about evolution; observing snapping turtle skulls and shark jaws

School Student at the Lab Observing and Learning About Shark Teeth Jaws

Learning about water bears (Tardigrades) and their adaptation to different environments

School Students Observing Water Bears on a Microscope

Learning about echinoderms and ocean acidification

Collage of 3 Pictures of Students Learning About Animals at the Science Camp Lab

Some of the X-Oceans facilitators

Group Picture of 5 Students Visiting X-Oceans

The StFX Syrian Youth Summer Camp visits X-Oceans

Collage of Students Learning and Practicing their Knowledge at the Lab

Exploring the touch-tanks with X-Project & Show Me Your Math Day Camp

2 Students Grabbing Mockup Starfish Models

Learning about ocean zones and zooplankton with the Keen and Green Summer Day Camp

Students Using the Microscope at the Lab

Students at a Table Creating a Poster About Biology Topic

Sarah Silver Slater, Ella Maltby and Matthew Freeman promoting Science Literacy week at the Antigonish Library

Students Promoting the Science Literacy Week and Showing their Work

Collage of Students Grabbing Marine Flora

Collage of Students Promoting the Science Literacy Week and Showing their Work

Learning about sea star anatomy

School Students Observing and Handling Starfish

Making slime and learning about marine animals that produce slime too.

Learning about the role of the ocean in the climate system and making some clouds of our own.

Exploring the marine touch-tank!

Teacher Instructing School Students About Starfish

Learning about sea urchins and tube feet

Students Learning With Live Sea Urchins at the Lab

Biology students Emilie Knighton and Ella Maltby promoting ocean literacy during the Science Literacy Week science camp organized by X-Chem outreach in partnership with X-Oceans outreach (September 2019).