Other STEM/STEAM Programs

This page lists other organizations offering camps, workshops or other extracurriculars in STEM/STEAM. While we have made contact with each of these organizations, we have not vetted their offerings in all cases.

Math

Spirit of Math offers evening and weekend extracurricular math programs for K-12. They are a national organization with multiple locations in Greater Vancouver.

Math Potentials offers extracurricular math programs for grades 5-12 based on the Singapore Math program. They offer multiple locations in Greater Vancouver.

LIVE offers online math classes for US$22/hr. LIVE was created by mathematician Po-Shen Loh, who visited VISST in 2024. Classes are taught by stellar high school students.

Burning Math offers training for high-level math contests from teacher James Zeng.

Vancouver Olympiad School offers training for high-level math contests from teacher John Yuan.

Stanford University Mathematics Camp is a summer camp for students completing Grade 10 or 11.

SFU Math Camp takes place in summer for Grade 9-10s.

Science

Science World’s Future Science Leaders program is an after school science enrichment program for upper high school students. The program includes science projects and the opportunity to meet with mentors and like-minded peers. Admission to the program is competitive.

Science BC specializes in science education through active learning and educational technology. It aims to cultivate a passion for science through innovative and personalized educational experiences, and aligns with the learning outcomes required by the Ministry of Education.

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) Mini Med School is an extracurricular opportunity for Grade 12 students interested in the health sciences. Runs in October/November, apply in September.

Ocean Wise’s Mountains to Ocean summer camp for 13-15 year olds interested in ocean conservation, environmental stewardship.

At the Geneskool Summer Science Program, high school students “gain hands-on lab experience investigating a scientific marvel turned mystery using biotechnology, genomics, fibre, blood typing, microbiology and microscopy”.

STEAM

Steamoji offers after school, weekend & summer programs on various STEAM topics for elementary school students.

Ethọ́s Lab is a non-profit STEAM lab for grade 5-12 students with an emphasis on promotive diverse voices in STEM/STEAM.

GearBots offer STEM/STEAM maker space academies for ages 9-17 in Abbotsford and Chilliwack.

Computer Science

GIRLsmarts4tech is an outreach program for girls run by the UBC Department of Computer Science.

Under the GUI offers after school, weekend & summer programs in coding and robotics. They offer a wide variety of courses including Python programming, web development, and game development. They offer several locations in Greater Vancouver.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

TKS is a weekend program promoting innovation in students aged 13-17. The program offers students a way to plug into the startup ecosystem and big-picture thinking.

Shad is a month-long summer program for Grade 10 and 11 students with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and STEAM. Shad takes place at various university campuses across the country and has been running since 1981.

Other

Vancouver Chess School offers group chess classes and lessons from beginning to high level.

Camp Justice is a 1-week summer camp for high school students interested in law and the legal profession.

Join the list!

If you operate an extracurricular program and would like to be listed on this page, please contact us at info@visst.ca. We look forward to hearing from you and learning more about your program.