New directions. No limits.

That’s the spirit visitors found at SWERVE, a free public festival that immersed guests in the new ideas and technologies that can help us shape the future we want.

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TOUCH THE FUTURE

From robot dance parties and 3D printed delights to virtual spacewalks outside the International Space Station and towering block creations, there was something for each of the 3,500+ visitors to the first-ever SWERVE festival.

Two young girls quickly overcome their shyness with a robot “dog” from Dave’s Armoury.

Learning about the science behind gravity while building towers in the NII ExploreZone.

A student on a class trip to SWERVE codes a robot to navigate a tricky path in the NII ExploreZone.

Georgian College’s Deb Witmer shows a young SWERVE visitor how to take the pulse of Pediatric HAL, a patient simulator used in the College’s Nursing and Health Sciences programs.

A teen virtually drives a vehicle in a mine—accompanied by Jeff Nicholls, an instructor from NORCAT.

After learning about the medical isotopes produced at Bruce Power, a young girl counts the number of “cancer cells” she was able to capture with her Lutetitum-177 super suit.

Parent Hillary Einboden and her family speak with an engineer from MDA Canada, the company behind the Canadarm, about one of their sophisticated surveillance robots.

To SWERVE is to change direction. Often suddenly.

It’s a shift to get around the big obstacles that stand in our way.

A swerve is a conscious act of innovation and it’s what the world needs now. From how we use energy to how we produce food, from the way we make things to how we get around, the world is coming up against barriers that require us to swerve before we run out of road.

Quickly.

Hosted by the Nuclear Innovation Institute, SWERVE offered a hands-on experience—for kids and adults—with the sensors and automation that are revolutionizing industry, the 3D printing techniques remaking manufacturing, and the digital tools that are changing everything from energy to health care.

Over three days in September 2022, SWERVE brought the frontiers of science and technology to Bruce, Grey, and Huron counties, allowing us all to imagine the possibilities that can put us on the path to a better future.