Science
Mi'kmaw Elders recognize that counting these natural markers inside a tree reveals its age and tells a story of its life.
Growth rings
This African Nova Scotian community engineered their own water wells and drainage systems despite limited resources.
Africville
This type of table is a multi-purpose platform that serves as a dedicated work-space for creating and manipulating technical drawings.
Drafting table
Natural cycles, like the phases of the moon, helped communities keep track of what concept?
Time or calendars
This StFX program provides hands-on activities and workshops to promote ocean sciences, preservation and marine biodiversity
X-Oceans
This concept encourages using both Indigenous knowledge and Western science to understand the world.
Two-Eyed Seeing
This term describes a program that can spread across a computer network and take control of your system.
A virus
This branch of engineering is focused on the design, construction and maintenance of public works.
Civil Engineering
Traditional drumming uses repeating beats and rhythms, which are examples of what math concept?
Patterns or sequences
This student society at StFX offers small group educational assistance, recreational and leadership programs for African Canadian and Mi'kmaw youth. (Hint: Been around since 1965)
X-Project
Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is found in Aspirin and was derived from salicin. What was salicin extracted from and commonly used by Indigenous peoples in North America to cure headaches, fevers, and aches and pains?
Willow bark
The name of the robot from the Coding Robots session
Ed/Edison
Mi'kmaw knowledge of river systems helped design these structures to catch or guide fish efficiently
Fish weirs
The line that divides a circle into two equal halves
The diameter
This building on campus is used to host Science labs (name 1)
There are lots!
What colour did the ASA tablet solutions turn once all of the acid in the tablet solution was neutralized by the base added from the buret?
Light pink
The roots of binary code, essential to all modern coding, can be traced back to this continent.
Africa
Mi'kmaw and African Nova Scotian artisans are known for creating these intricate woven items using natural materials and mathematical patterns.
Baskets
The name for the top number in a fraction
A numerator
This program at StFX was created to encourage Mi'kmaw and African Nova Scotian youth to examine Mathematics in their everyday lives
Connecting Math to Our Lives and Communities