The First Nations University is receiving some recognition for its annual health and science summer camp.
Actua is honouring the school with its“Making Friends with Science” award.
The charitable group typically picks out organizations in Canada that teach under-represented youth about science, technology, math and other subjects.
Racelle Kooy works with the FNUC and also helps out at the camp.
She says it allows the students to have fun while also learning new things about the world they live in:
“The health and science camp is to foster that natural curiosity about the world. We drag them over to Wascana Lake and they tromp through the mud and they look at the different algae forming there.”
The camp has been running for 16 years.