Turn curiosityinto real research.

Research 101 is our flagship: a free four-week summer workshop for high school students, led by university mentors. We also run field workshops, community events, and The Symposium, Canada's biggest student research competition, in Winter 2027.

Start with a structured program. Research 101 takes you from zero experience to proficient enough to lead or join real research projects, over four weeks with live sessions five times a week. It is free and online, and every session is recorded.

University mentors, not staff reading from a deck, including professors at Princeton and Queen's University. Beyond the people who teach, researchers at MIT, UC Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, Western University, York University, and Toronto Metropolitan University have advised us, sat down for interviews, or mentored students directly. They teach the fields they actually work in.

Yes. The Auroran covered how the club grew from its October 2025 founding to more than 300 students across five provinces and two U.S. states, and NewmarketToday covered the move from in-person sessions at Aurora Public Library to free online workshops open to students anywhere.

Our free Researcher Interviews series recorded sit-downs this summer with Randy Schekman, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at UC Berkeley, and Jacob Tsimerman, who won the 2026 Fields Medal at the University of Toronto. Both episodes are publishing soon and are free to watch, with no registration required.

Join the waitlist. Registration closes August 28, and after that the register page becomes a waitlist for the next cohort. Spots open when a registered student drops, and we work down the list in the order people joined. Everyone on the waitlist also gets first access to the next run before it is announced publicly.

Yes, 100% free. There is no registration fee and no cost during the program. Our workshops and community events are free too.

Research 101 runs fully online, so students can join from home anywhere in the world, not just Canada. Every live session is recorded and posted to your classroom, so different time zones are not a problem. The Symposium is in person in downtown Toronto in Winter 2027.

Yes. Research 101 is an online course, and students outside Canada, including the US, are welcome. Live sessions run five times a week, and every one is recorded and posted to your classroom, so you can attend live or catch up on your own schedule.

No. Every program is built for students starting from zero, including students who have never set foot in a lab.

Yes. Research 101 runs online for students across Canada and around the world, including Toronto, the GTA, Ontario, Vancouver, and the US. Sessions are recorded, so catching up across time zones is easy. The Symposium is in person in downtown Toronto.

STEM pathways like biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, mathematics, health sciences, and environmental science, plus social science pathways like psychology, economics, sociology, and public policy.

Registration takes about two minutes on our register page. Answer five quick steps, build your researcher profile, and you are in. It closes August 28.

Compete at The Symposium in Winter 2027, take what you learned into real projects, or keep going with our upcoming researcher interview series and resources.

Yes. A small crew of university students, graduate students, researchers, and educators runs every season. The application on our mentors page takes a few minutes, and every one gets read.