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SUMMARY:Florence Nightingale Day Field Trip
DESCRIPTION:Field trip information:\n\nFlorence Nightingale Day 2025 at Simon Fraser University is coming up! This one-day event is part of an international celebration that gives high school students\, especially those from traditionally under-represented groups\, a chance to explore educational and career opportunities in statistical sciences. It is named after Florence Nightingale\, the widely known founder of modern nursing who was also a ground-breaking statistician credited with inventing the pie chart. \nIn British Columbia\, Florence Nightingale Day 2025 will be co-hosted on Friday\, May 2\, by the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. The event will take place at SFU’s Burnaby campus and will include fun hands-on activities\, panel discussions featuring university students and professionals\, and opportunities for participants to ask questions about studying and working in statistics. The day has three goals: \n\nTo give participants an understanding of the strong benefits of studying statistics for their future career paths\nTo give participants a glimpse of what studying statistics in university is like\nTo promote diversity in statistics and data science by encouraging and inspiring high school students from all communities to explore statistics\n\nLunch is free for all participating students and teachers! \nWhat Happens at Florence Nightingale Day \nWhat does the day look like? Check out these stories and photos from past events: \n\nFlorence Nightingale Day 2024(opens in a new tab)\nFlorence Nightingale Day 2023\n\nFRIDAY\, May 2\, 2025 \nRecommended for Grades 10 – 12 \n\nMeeting at Hawthorne Campus:  5741 176th street\, Surrey BC. at 9:30am and taking a bus to SFU.  We will be leaving SFU at 4:00pm.\nWhere: Hawthorne Campus:  5741 176th street\, Surrey BC.  And SFU Burnaby Campus.\nCost: $10 per student\nLunch is provided!!  (Please bring a lunch if you have food sensitivities as I do not know what will be provided.)\nPlease dress for the weather as some of the SFU tour will be outside.\nContact Person/Information: Joyce Froese\,  jfroese@schoolathome.ca\, 1-800-745-1320 ext 365Sign-up deadline: Thursday\, April 17\, 2025  *SFU needs the names of all participants in advance
URL:https://schoolathome.ca/event/florence-nightingale-day-field-trip/
LOCATION:Simon Fraser University\, 8888 University Dr W\, Burnaby\,\, BC\, V5A 1S6\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joye%20Froese":MAILTO:jfroese@schoolathome.ca
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