FOR OUR GIFTED WRTIERS PLEASE CONSIDER PARTICIPATING!!!!

Hi All,

This is a great day for gifted writers in our board. It is very very popular, so even though registration opens next month when I saw it I thought I should get the word out.

Link is below

Your Story: MASC Teen Authors & Illustrators Festival

Next years event is coming up. Mark your calendars now!

‘Your Story’ will be held on Friday February 8th, 2019 at the Confederation Learning Centre, 1645 Woodroffe Avenue, in Ottawa. Students in grades 8 to 12 attended a day of hands-on creative workshops led by some of Canada’s finest authors and illustrators of teen literature. Students will take part in a number of literary events throughout the day, as well as the launch of the 2nd annual Jan Andrews Literary Award: a Teen writing competition. 

Where is it?

Registration opens in November 2018

For information please contact Wendy Hartley at
wendyhartley@masconline.ca

http://www.masconline.ca/en/events/your-story-masc-teen-festival.aspx

ANOTHER AWESOME OPPORTUNITY!

From: Code Queens <codequeensottawa@gmail.com>

This is Areena. Adam Nadeau from Nokia had referred your name to me regarding the OCSB's involvement in our conference. 

I'm sending over the information for Colonel By's upcoming student-led girls in STEM conference hosted at Nokia Ottawa in December.  

The event information is below, and I'm attaching a flyer for the contact to have as well. If they are interested, please have them fill out this form:  https://goo.gl/forms/IpR9YuboM1vq6gc92. 

If they have any questions, they can contact Areena at  codequeensottawa@gmail.com. 

CODE_QUEENS CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Code_Queens is a youth STEM conference run by girls, for girls. Hosted at Nokia's Ottawa Campus on December 5th, our mission is to reimagine the culture for the next generation of young women entering STEM. 

Event Mandate

1) Target girls in middle school (grades 7-8) before they lose interest in a career pathway related to STEM, and enable them to choose high school courses to pursue it. 

2) Provide insight into life as a woman engineer, shattering common misconceptions about coding: that it's boring, a desk job only, and a 'boys club'. 

3) Equip girls with the skills to pursue a STEM career, from programming in Python to planning, designing, and wireframing a solution to a technical problem

Event Outline

1) Morning session with yoga to engage the girls, a two-hour Intro to Python Programming workshop, and a keynote speaker from Shopify with an inspiring message on overcoming the challenges for a woman entering STEM.

2) Catered lunch 'connection session' held conference style, meeting women in engineering from Nokia who'll share their advice and listen to the girls' perspectives on STEM.

3) Afternoon tech challenge presented by Nokia, introducing wireframing and design concepts to the girls, and a final pitch fair, with top three teams earning prizes.

How to get engaged?

Fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/IpR9YuboM1vq6gc92, and wait for us to get back to you!

Thanks!

Areena

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