Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 7, 2015
• Invested on: May 13, 2016

For her leadership in fostering science literacy among primary and secondary school students across Canada, notably as the founder of Let’s Talk Science.

Bonnie Schmidt has heightened Canada’s science culture and strengthened our innovation economy. Following her doctoral studies in physiology, she founded Let’s Talk Science to foster an appreciation for science, technology, engineering and math among young people. Over two decades, she has built this organization into a cornerstone of science literacy in Canada, offering programming to hundreds of thousands of elementary and high school-aged students each year. She also helped establish the Science and Technology Awareness Network, and serves on a number of advisory committees.