BEAUFORT DELTA - Engineering students from the University of Alberta toured the Beaufort Delta earlier this month with their DiscoverE youth day camps.

The communities of Aklavik, Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik each hosted this summer's week-long camps, which aim to get children excited about science and technology by participating in fun activities such as building alka-seltzer rockets, dissecting owl pellets and examining the DNA of strawberries.

In Tuk, a total of 41 youths participated at the local youth centre, with a daily average of 25 kids. In Aklavik, 36 aspiring scientists showed up to camp through the week and about 22 of them came every day.

The DiscoverE program, funded by Actua and Shell Canada, travels around the country to teach about 20,000 kids a year.

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