Every year over one weekend, developers, makers, engineers and entrepreneurs take on NASA-designed challenges, creating solutions that range from silly to serious, fantastical to feasible. 

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Advisory Board Member, Space Apps Challenge

The International Space University is an educational organization located in France that develops future leaders of the global space community. Marianne was a Visiting Lecturer for the graduate level professional development Space Studies Program in 2014 and 2015.

Visiting Lecturer International Space University

Awarded in 2013 for research contributions to the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET). Marianne is one of only 3 Canadians selected for this intensive research program since in began in 1976.

US Antarctic Service Medal

2012: PhD Fellowship, NSERC CREATE Technologies and Techniques for Earth & Space Exploration
2009: Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-D)
2002: Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-M)

NSERC Scholarships

Co-Founder & Board Member, STEAMLabs

Marianne Mader has dedicated her career to sharing her love for space exploration through innovative public engagement, participatory education, planetary science research, and science communication. Currently the Managing Director of Earth & Space / Fossils & Evolution at the Royal Ontario Museum, she strives to foster curiosity through learning experiences for all ages. As part of her mission to make education accessible and engaging, Marianne co-founded STEAMLabs, a non-profit community makerspace. STEAMLabs is located in Toronto's Centre for Social Innovation, and acts as a creative hub where people of different ages and abilities come together to learn and create using digital fabrication, coding, and more. 

A leader in the space industry with over 13 years of research and field experience, Marianne has worked with the Canadian Space Agency, NASA, and MDA (Canada's largest space company). She has been a Visiting Lecturer at the International Space University, and her education includes a PhD in Planetary Science, MSc in Space Studies, and an MSc in Earth Sciences. A talented connector of networks, Marianne has the rare experience of managing teams and collaborating at the intersection of space agency, academic, industrial, and community stakeholders.

Space Exploration

Planetary Science

Science Communication

Maker Culture

Leadership

STEAM Education 

Science Outreach to the Public

Makerspace 

21st Century Learning

Citizen Science

Museums

STEM Education

Participatory Engagement

Hackathons

Innovation

Innovating Learning

Geology

Personal Website

STEAMLabs

Royal Ontario Museum

Trek Talks: Bridging Science and the Arts | TIFF Live

Planetary Scientist Dr. Marianne Mader - What She Said Tech

ROMCast (Podcast): Dr. Marianne Mader

Profile: New on the Ground (and in Space)

#SciComm100: Marianne Mader

Marianne Mader, geologist-planetary scientist-tinkerer

Article: Women around the world prove science isn't just for 'boys with toys'

Speaker: STEAMLabs' Motivation

Keynote Presentation: Punching above our weight: Increasing space outreach impact

Invited Speaker: Hunting Meteorites at the End of the World

Presenter: Museums & Planetary Missions

Keynote Presentation: Millennial Engagement - 21st Century Science Outreach

Presenter: The Maker Movement (in Museums)

Managing Director, Earth & Space/Fossils & Evolution, Royal Ontario Museum

Marianne Mader is the Managing Director of the Centres for Discovery in Earth and Space and Fossils and Evolution at the Royal Ontario Museum

Video by: Stacey Lee Kerr
Special thanks to Marianne Mader and Danielle Bengall
Produced by ROM Biodiversity in partnership with Fleming College’s Environmental Visual Communication program and Science Literacy Week 

Music: “Bright White” by Podington Bear; “Pluck and Bounce” by Adam Selzer. Licensed via www.freemusicarchive.org under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

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ROM Scientist: Marianne Mader

Since its debut in 1966, Star Trek has inspired people to pursue their passions and dreams in a variety of fields, from science and engineering to technology and the arts. From Martin Cooper, who invented the portable cellular phone in 1973 inspired by Captain Kirk's communicator, to Dr. Mae Jemison, whose admiration of Nichelle Nichols' Lt. Uhura led her to realize her dream to become the first African American woman in space, Star Trek has motivated fans to realize its ideals in their own lives.

Beyond inspiring individuals, Trek is used as a teaching tool by educators in courses on law and diplomacy, physics, information studies, and even philosophy and sociology. Its representation of real-world issues through metaphor and analogy engages with complex scientific and philosophical concepts for a mass audience, making the series itself a form of educational inquiry.

This roundtable discussion on Star Trek and science education brings together Sonny Kohli, physician and co-founder of Cloud DX, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and STEAMLabs co-founder and Managing Director at the Royal Ontario Museum Marianne Mader, to consider how science can inspire art and art can inspire science, and how film and television projects like Star Trek can inspire careers in space, technology, math, arts, and engineering fields.

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