I-STEAM Pathways: Environmental Education Program for Indigenous Students

Enabling First Nations, Métis or Inuit undergraduate students to gain research experience in environmental fields including science, environmental engineering, environmental law and policy.

I-STEAM Pathways: Environmental Research Internships for Indigenous Students

Providing research experience for First Nations, Métis and Inuit undergraduate students in environmental fields including science, environmental engineering, environmental law and policy.
Fostering systemic change through the incorporation of Indigenous values and worldviews in environmental policy and planning.

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Internship applications

All First Nations, Métis and Inuit undergraduate students attending a Canadian post-secondary institution are eligible to apply. Applications for the 2025 internship program will open here in December 2024.

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I-STEAM Pathways relies on public and private sponsors to help support and scale the program. Learn more about how you can donate.

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Exchanging Knowledge, Cultivating Change

Voices of I-STEAM Pathways Indigenous Summer Interns 2023

In Summer 2023, 18 excited Indigenous interns from a wide range of Indigenous communities including Lac St Anne, Haudenosaunee, Peyasis, Samson Cree and Sikisika, joined the program. They engaged in a wide range of environmental research projects including monitoring of water chemistry in the Hay River watershed; impacts of climate change and land use; development of IoT Sensor Platforms for Remote Environmental Monitoring; biopolymers as absorbents for water treatment; examining compost blends for regenerative agriculture and so much more. This video contains tiny snippets of their experiences as they and their supervisors carried out exciting and highly-relevant environmental research.

Testimonials

I have learned that we should be managing our water bodies by investigating the health of organism populations as water scarcity can become a threat in the future if we are not monitoring for changes. By having knowledge of indicators it would help in monitoring of the Athabasca river.

Janelle Flett, 2020 intern

I learned so much during this internship and was fully immersed in research. My supervisor was great and made sure I got to work on multiple projects and made sure I was getting a lot out of the experience.

Lauren Perras, 2020 intern

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