Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair 2026
UBC Science Lab Tours: 9am-10am on Friday April 10th
Choose from these wonderful opportunities to learn about what amazing things some labs and programs at UBC are working on. Make your selection during the online registration process.
Updated for 2026!
- Tour name: Data Detectives – Solving a Problem with Computers
Tour Description: Using the department’s computer labs on the main floor of the Earth Science Building, students will be taken through an interactive activity to resolve a statistical problem. - Tour Name: Marine Ecology Lab Tour with the Harley Lab
Tour Description: The Harley Lab research group combines field and lab experiments to understand how climate change affects marine organisms, ranging from sea stars to seaweeds. On this tour you will learn about the methods we use in our research, tour the facilities (including aquarium systems, incubators, and microscopes), and even meet some of the creatures we work with, including sea anemones and crabs. - Tour Name: UBC Mosquito Lab
Tour Description: Like bugs? So do we! Come tour the UBC Mosquito Lab and learn about our work that aims to understand the mosquito’s sense of taste and touch as they navigate the world looking for food, mates, and places to lay eggs. You will see all life stages of mosquitoes and hear directly from our researchers on the techniques that they use in their projects, from CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to fluorescence microscopy and quantitative behavioural assays. - Tour Name: SIF lab tour + liquid nitrogen ice cream
Tour Description: The students will visit the Shared Instrument Facility in the Chemistry Department at UBC Vancouver. They will get to see some of the most useful instruments used to quantify and characterize molecules of all types. The visit will include a tasting of liquid-nitrogen ice cream made live and on-site. - Tour Name: MacLachlan Lab Tour
Tour Description: The MacLachlan Lab develops new organic and inorganic molecules and materials with interesting properties to address interesting scientific and engineering problems. Some of our projects are aimed at combating environmental problems or improving alternative energy applications, such as solar energy conversion and green hydrogen generation. - Tour Name: Intro to Robotics
Tour Description: An introductory robotics STEM workshop. - Tour Name: UBC Computer Science Department
Tour Description: Learn about the teaching and research spaces in the UBC Department of Computer Science! - Tour Name: Earthquake Lab Tour
Tour Description: Visit the Earthquake Lab at the Earthquake Engineering Facility (EERF) at UBC to get an idea about the nature of the research projects performed in the lab to enhance the safety of the structures during earthquakes. - Tour Name: An introduction to Particle Physics at UBC
Tour Description: Have you ever wondered what makes up the fundamental building blocks of everything in the universe? Welcome to the particle zoo! Find out what we’ve learned from high energy collisions at CERN, particles and the Standard Model, what is the “theory of everything”, and how particle physics has developed technologies in medicine, industry, computing and more. - Tour Name: Learn about gene editing therapeutics
Tour Description: Learn how we develop improved gene editors, and how we are working to improve the delivery of gene editors by developing new formulations of lipid nanoparticles, and how we are applying these to treat many different diseases.