My name is Evelyne Tsang and I am an informal educator and science communicator with the Mad Science Group. My teaching experience began as a biology Teaching Assistant and Educational Outreach lead for the Family Workshops at the Redpath Museum, a natural history museum on McGill University campus in Montreal. I have had the honour of working on science projects with Time for Kids, YES and KNOW magazines, moderating the elementary level global Rube Goldberg Challenge, and developing outreach programs in association with NASA Education. My biggest challenge happened this summer, when I became a homeschool teacher to my six-year old son!
Hands-on learning 
Learning together 
Life-size balloon T-rex
This pandemic has slowed my typically high-gear pace, which was helpful in taking stock of what is essential, and what could be improved in all aspects of my life. Working from home means the onus is on me to step away from the computer to join my family! I wish to continue communicating science, and I would like to do so with a blend of hands-on and online techniques. I hope to gain more experience with WordPress, and collaborating within a communal hive mind in ETEC 523.
I would love to say that I have been so organized as to create a detailed blog of my MET degree. I have been best at actively incorporating the tools, techniques, concepts and ideas from each session into my work at Mad Science. What I can truly say is that I am constantly amazed at the knowledge shared within each cohort of classmates and am always so excited to share what I discover to extend the collective knowledge base.
This is my fifth and final course for my MET TBLS certificate. I entered this course with great expectations, and found each course to be immersive and intense… in a good way! We are each building our degree with online classes, and the variety of each professor’s style has given us a spectrum of teaching methods to observe and absorb.
It has been great to learn from one another in the discussion forums, and I look forward to developing my technology base in this co-constructive course!
Chat with you soon!
Evelyne
Hi all, yes, the RGC was an amazing experience. The kids went all out with their ten-step builds and the element of humour (big points) was great to see.
Janice, where did you work with Mad Science, and what was your mad scientist name?
Hi Evelyne,
Haha! I haven’t thought about this for a while. I worked in Langley, BC. My name was “Nitro-Jan” 🙂
HI Evelyne! I hate to plagiarise Janice’s reply, but “Rube Goldberg Challenge?” Wow. The NASA stuff sounds pretty cool too, but getting the dog to bite the sausage to make the ball drop onto the gutter and knock over the candle that burns the rope that releases the pendulum that strikes the bell and startles the cat into waking the sleeping man is way cooler! I’m sure I won’t be the only one trying to gently steer conversations in that direction.
Hi Evelyne,
Elementary global Rube Goldberg Challenge? Wow, I had no idea such a thing existed! I worked with Mad Science briefly many years ago, that’s great that it is still going.