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Theme: Water
Friday, October 26, 2007, 7 pm to 10 pm

Science Café Topic:

"We didn't screw up the world, why should we fix it?"

Guest Speakers:

• Sarah Tataki is a member of Engineers without Borders. She recently spent several months in Ghana working on water & sanitation projects to learn about the existing water challenges in that country, and helped to develop a program to come up with solutions to these challenges.
  http://www.ewb.ca
  

• Jordan Hreljac will speak on behalf of the Ryan's Well Foundation. In grade one, his brother Ryan decided to raise money for people who did not have access to clean drinking water. Years later, the foundation has supported water projects in 14 countries, and provided water for almost half a million people.
  http://www.ryanswell.ca

DJs:

• Quadrasonic:  quadrasonic.com
  

  DJ Alvaro C and DJ Boris kidConga got the groove going in the Weston Family Innovation Centre.

Food:

• Snacks at this event were sourced from local producers wherever possible.

  Event supported by   takingitglobal.org

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Siemens Challenge

Rise to the Challenge - work with your friends to solve the world's problems and make a short video in less than 90 minutes.

We're uploading the October participants videos to Youtube and will be posting the links soon!

Rise to the Challenge - work with your friends to solve the world's problems and make a short video in less than 90 minutes. Here are the videos which were generated from participants during the Siemens Challenge at the October Sci Fri.

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