How Curiosity Grows Inclusive STEM

Through the IDEA Lens · Sep 3, 2026 · 27m · transcript

In this third episode of Through the IDEA Lens, Mahadeo Sukhai and Peter Field talk with Dr. Bonnie Schmidt of “Let’s talk science” (LTS). LTS was started over 30 years ago by Bonnie Schmidt when she was completing her PhD in Physiology at Western University. It was started at a time when the then economic recession was cutting funding to science research. 35 years later, LTS now spans early childhood to grade 12, with 70% of its work anchored in the school system. There are about 15,500 schools across Canada, and last year LTS programming supported about 40% of them. In this podcast we start…