Science Rendezvous @ Ryerson

Stage Shows

Dan Riskin, co-host of Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet, will be our M/C this year! Stage shows include our popular fire show, an all-new Dance of Science featuring Ryerson’s theatre/dance students, and an exciting new liquid nitrogen show! The stage shows start at 12 noon.

Activities for All Ages

Ryerson University and our partners have great activities for children, teens, and adults. Learn about biofilms as you paint in a bio-goo medium; find out how you can design a robot at home using Lego kits or, for the more adventurous, Arduino technology; play with some of Ryerson’s programmable robots; get your hands on some of those scientific instruments you see on CSI; design and launch your own water bottle rocket.

Children can collect stamps from exhibitors on their passports. Collect at 10 or more stamps and you can enter a draw for a special prize.

Dr MadScience, Jordan Hilkowitz, will join the Ryerson party this year!  Come out and meet Dr MadScience in person. 

Robot Battle Performance

Radio-controlled robots compete in one-on-one contests, ranging from soccer-style goal scoring to winning a battle by destroying the opponent's beacon tower. Come and cheer your favourite metal gladiator.

Physics Circus

Discover the wonders of physics with our fun and interactive Physics Circus! Experience the power of vacuum, levitating superconductors, electrical phenomena, and more.

Interactive Computing and Invention

Learn about technologies that turn digital media into child’s play:  Makey-makey lets you use anything—even a banana—as a keyboard; Kinect can do more than you bought it for; free, user-friendly software can get you started in animation.

Psychology Mind Games

Explore the brain and see how the mind works. Test the limits of your own memory, listen to the sounds that surround us and be amazed by visual illusions that reveal how we see the world.

World of Biology

Did you know that bacteria can be used to create miniature microbial batteries?  Learn about microbe power and more:  There’s Science in the Enchanted Garden, and our cell biology professors and students bring you Bio-Logic.

Urban Water

Explore a hands-on model of an urban watershed showing the effects of agricultural runoff and industrial and municipal effluents on water quality.  Learn about the Don River, eutrophication and other water issues, with the scientists who study them.

Urban Energy

Ryerson scientists and engineers from the Department of Chemistry and Biology and the Centre for Urban Energy present the latest innovations in energy research, from solar cells and heat pumps to batteries and flywheels.

Civil Engineering

In what other profession than Civil Engineering could you be paid to crash a transport truck into a concrete barrier? Our engineering students can make anything out of concrete—even a canoe!  Find out what happens when science meets design.