IQALUIT - Nasivvik School students Grades 9-11 had a chance to build their own robots in Pond Inlet recently.

Reesie Innuaraq and Lisa Idlout put together their robot at Nasivvik School in Pond Inlet. - photo courtesy of Tessa Lochhead

The Elephant Thoughts science program hit the community Oct. 26 - Nov. 6. Sponsored by the Kakavak Association, the workshops are run by a non-profit group out of Ontario that runs science and technology camps around the world.

The aim is to get students excited about science and also to improve their technological literacy, said student support teacher Tessa Lochhead. Students at Nasivvik School and Ulaajuk School also experienced an inflatable planetarium.

"It was amazing," Lochhead said of the program.

"They were given so many things to play with and experiment with that they couldn't help but be totally immersed in everything they were doing."