The Education and Outreach team at SNOLAB brings the excitement and innovation of the experiments underway in the lab to students and communities. Sharing the science at SNOLAB and the people behind it, supports science literacy and inspires the next generation of scientists, technicians, and innovators. If you have a media inquiry, please visit the SNOLAB media page.
Learn moreThe Education and Outreach team at SNOLAB have created a number of resources to help share the science underway at SNOLAB with K-12 audiences and to support public education initiatives. Pi Day Experiment posters These posters provide a great visual overview of some SNOLAB-hosted experiments and share a bit of science behind how they work. […]
Learn moreA day at SNOLAB No matter where you are located, you can take a look around the SNOLAB facility using our virtual tour experience. Navigate your way around the lab from your desktop or mobile device, or choose the options for VR goggles. Take a guided tour of SNOLAB with Nobel laureate Dr. Art McDonald. […]
Learn moreSNOLAB hosts and participates in special events throughout the year, including local community initiatives in Sudbury and international events within the astroparticle physics community. Working with our institutional partners, SNOLAB also hosts and supports a variety of summer schools for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. TRISEP is an international graduate level summer school organized jointly by […]
Learn moreDrift: Art and dark matter The Drift artist in residency program was implemented in 2019 and is a partnership between the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery at Queen’s University, the McDonald Institute and SNOLAB. The goal is to bring artists and researchers together to explore the search for dark matter. Explore the online exhibition of Drift: Art and Dark Matter. […]
Learn moreThe piece on display outside Science North is the inner vessel from a dark matter experiment that was installed at SNOLAB called MiniCLEAN (mini Cryogenic Low-Energy Astrophysics with Noble liquids). SNOLAB is Canada’s deep underground science laboratory and the location of choice for particle astrophysics experiments built to detect neutrinos and dark matter. MiniCLEAN was installed […]
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