County Roots & STEM is a not-for-profit organization based in Picton, Ontario. We provide hands-on science education for the children and youth of Prince Edward County and the surrounding communities. Our main purpose is the continuous advancement of education: we help young people become scientifically literate citizens who can make sense of the world they live in.

Our Mission is to increase scientific literacy across Prince Edward County, so that the children growing up here become adults who understand the world around them, weigh evidence with care, and take a full part in the life of their community.

Scientific literacy, as we mean it, is not a body of facts to be memorized or a pipeline into scientific careers. It is a habit of awareness: the capacity to notice how the natural and built world works, to ask why, and to reason from what can be observed rather than from what one is simply told. For us, A County where that habit is common is a County better able to make decisions about its water, its farmland, its health, and its future. We work toward that literacy directly, through programming that treats every child and youth as someone already capable of genuine inquiry.

For more information, send us an email at info@countyrootsandstem.ca