EUReKA! Staff and Volunteers
Information for and about EUReKA! Staff and Volunteers
Applications are closed for 2025.
For information about becoming a EUReKA! volunteer, please scroll to the bottom of this page.
This is our 2025 Team Photo
Meet Our Team
At the beginning of the summer, we interviewed our 2024 team and asked them the following questions:
- What is your favourite dessert?
- What is a fun fact about you?
- Based on a personality quiz, what type of superhero are you?
Natasha Onyango, Director
Favourite Dessert: Tiramisu
Fun Fact: I can speak with my mouth closed
Favourite Superhero: Batman
Jerin Jeejo, Assistant Director
Favourite Dessert: Butterscotch Cake
Fun Fact: I can do caricatures
Favourite Superhero: Superman
Mariam (Hanifa) Munyi, Supporting Director
Favourite Dessert: Melona Ice Cream
Fun Fact: I can do a 10 minute handstand
Favourite Superhero: Black Widow
Imran Hussein, Technology Coordinator
Favourite Dessert: Butterscotch
Fun Fact: I really like dancing
Favourite Superhero: Superman
Zahra Nazzal, Returning Instructor
Favourite Dessert: Jam/ glazed donut or vanilla cupcake
Fun Fact: I am a grill master 3000
Favourite Superhero: Superman
Rachelle Holt, Indigenous Coordinator
Favourite Dessert: Tiramisu
Fun Fact: I love to camp and spend all of my free time outside or reading
Favourite Superhero: Fantastic Four
Volunteer for Summer 2025
If you would like to join the team as a volunteer please click here for more information. This link will allow access to the volunteer application document. Once the application is filled out it can be returned to the office either via email at eureka@tru.ca, dropped off in the office Monday to Friday during the day to room S232 (May and June only) in the Ken Lepin Science Building and IB2004 (July and August only) in the International Building (IB) on the Thompson Rivers University campus or mailed to:
EUReKA! Science Program
c/o TRU Science Office
805 TRU Way
Kamloops, B.C.
V2C 0C8
It is mandatory that all volunteers undergo a criminal record check (the police station does this service free for volunteers) and attend a short interview. No prior experience working with youth is mandatory, however, it is of course preferred. Applicants must be 16 years of age or older. If you have any questions regarding volunteer applications feel free to call the office at 250 371-5534.
* Although we appreciate parent involvement with volunteer applications, we would prefer to correspond with you (the volunteer) about the possibility of volunteering with us.