Stanley R. Taylor taught for the Toronto Catholic District School Board for 23 years. He retired in 2001 and did workshops for students, educators and within the community for Scientists in School. Mr. Taylor gave Science workshops in “Celestial Sleuths” (astronomy) and “Flight” with Grade 6 students, “Structures” with Grades 5 and 3 students, and Fluids, namely pneumatics for grade eight students.

Stan sat on the Crucible and Elements Editorial Board and the Program Committee with the Science Teachers Association of Ontario (STAO), and has published 75 science articles with them since 2004. Two of his publications are: “Caught in the Web: The Spider Girls” Crucible, December 2013 involving students of Uxbridge Secondary School and “AstroNut Kids Mission #45 In Elements. He also served as Vice-Chair of the Communications Committee of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC).

Stan has also published articles in The Windsor Star, The Fredericton Gleaner, the Uxbridge COSMOS, Canadian Teacher, and Diakonos [Theological Journal of Huron College].

Stan ran a workshop in early February 2023 at the Space Exploration Educators Conference at Johnson Space Center (NASA) for educators entitled “Canadarms.” He had two engineers from the Canadian Space Agency currently working at Johnson Space Center give an overview and introduction of the three Canadarms. Following their talk, Scientist Stan had each educator make, under his instruction, his Pneumatically Controlled Canadarm (his own invention).

The ABS Abacus Brain Study group had a March Break S.T.E.A.M. Camp, where Scientist Stan was one of 4 educators to do a workshop with the children.

In addition to his membership with the Science Teachers Association of Ontario (STAO) and founding member of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG, formerly PWAC), Stan is a member of the:

• Young Canadian Space Club, Founder
• Retired Teachers of Ontario
• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• 100 Men in Uxbridge Who Care
• Probus Club of Uxbridge

Stan’s published books are: Taylor’s Pneumatic Toys, Career Options Maria Sirdar-Nickel, and Hover & Soar, all available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

I have taught educators how to build my miniature, pneumatically controlled Canadarm at the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers, at the Space Exploration Educators Conference at Johnson Space Center (NASA), and at the Science Teachers Association of Ontario.

I have also taught many children how to make my Canadam at Ray Bielecki’s AstroNut Kids Space Club, Pickering Nuclear Plant’s March Break Madness, Lee Valley Tools in Scarborough and Vaughan, and in school classrooms. The sparkle in the eye of a child and the broad smile of an educator when they have made the toy and when they see it working is most gratifying.