About Team Canada-MILSET

A significant new sponsorship from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) to Youth Science Canada will help 44 students from Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan to participate in the 2009 Team Canada-MILSET Expo- Sciences International (ESI) in Tunisia July 23 to 29. Held every two years, this non-competitive event, which brings together young people from over 75 countries to exchange ideas and compare projects, aims to instil a culture of science by fostering networking and international collaboration.

The NWMO’s investment, together with funding from the Province of Ontario, Hydro-Québec and The Canadian Commission for UNESCO, will allow Youth Science Canada to field a much larger Team Canada and to expand its participation. For the first time, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick will select students from their Canada-Wide Science Fair teams.

"As an organization with a strong science and public engagement program, the NWMO is committed to intergenerational learning. We support youth efforts to advance scientific knowledge and help apply it in a way that matters to people," said Ken Nash, NWMO’s President and CEO.

2007 Team Canada-MILSET ESI participant Haley Robinson, who travelled to Durban, South Africa, knows the value of this rare opportunity. "I do not think anything can reproduce this first hand experience. The people I talked to, the sights I saw and the connections I made, have all contributed to my development."

Based in Toronto, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization was established in 2002 by Ontario Power Generation Inc., Hydro-Québec and New Brunswick Power Corporation in accordance with the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act to assume responsibility for the long-term management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel.

Look for news about the team’s experience in Tunisia on the web site later this summer.