Welcome Back to all of our students! I will be sending home information shortly regarding our enrichment trips to the National Art Centre this year! Please check the blog weekly to see if there are any activities happening in our community that you would like to attend!Wishing everyone a great year!

A great opportunity happening this Thursday!

Invitation to the MakerEd Night A French message will follow. Reminder: You are invited to a MakerEd Night on May 9! The Faculty of Engineering's Outreach team at the University of Ottawa is organizing an evening dedicated to connecting teachers to resources in order to introduce technology in their classrooms.  We are hoping to have at least one representative from every school in the region. If you or anyone at your school is interested in participating, please register here. This is a bilingual event. Come see our brand new Makerspace in the new STEM complex! WHEN:Thursday, May 9, 2019 from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Ottawa campus New STEM Complex, 150 Louis-Pasteur Pvt, room 117, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Introduction & Dinner 5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Find out more about the various programs offered by the Faculty of Engineering’s Outreach team for youth and teens while enjoying a light dinner. Learn about Maker Mobile workshops, high school engineering clubs, elementary robotics clubs and other events and see how we can help you introduce new technologies into your classrooms! Makerspace Workshops 6:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Learn about coding and 3D printing! Workshop 1: Learn about coding with Micro:bits!  Micro:bits are tiny programmable boards, half the size of a credit card, designed to make learning coding fun and easy! It has 25 red LED lights that can flash messages and be used to create games. There are two programmable buttons that can be used to control games. It has an accelerometer so it can detect motion and knows when you're on the move. The built-in compass knows which direction you're heading in and it can use a Bluetooth connection to interact with other devices and the Internet. Find out more about this incredible device! Workshop 2: Learn about 3D printing Learn to design in 3D using a free software called Tinkercad. Get ideas of projects and how to incorporate this new technology in your curriculum! Space is limited -  REGISTER TODAY!  For more information on Maker Mobile workshops, visit our website! Click here for more information on our Science workshops! It's not to late to register! Invitation à la Soirée Maker Ed Rappel: Vous êtes invités à la Soirée MakerEd le 9 mai prochain! Le masculin est utilisé pour alléger le texte.  L'équipe des programmes de sensibilisation de la Faculté de génie de l'Université d'Ottawa organise une soirée dédiée aux enseignants vous permettant de vous familiariser aux nouvelles technologies pour vous aider à les intégrer dans vos salles de classe. Nous souhaitons avoir la participation d'un représentant de chaque école de la région. Si vous ou quelqu'un de votre école souhaitez participer, veuillez SVP  vous inscrire ici. Cet événement sera bilingue. Venez visiter notre nouveau Makerspace dans le nouveau complexe STEM! QUAND : Le jeudi 9 mai 2019, de 17 h à 20 h 30 LIEU : Campus de l'Université d'Ottawa Nouveau Complexe STEM, 150 Louis-Pasteur, Salle 117, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Introduction et souper 17 h à 18 h 15 Venez découvrir les divers programmes pour les enfants et adolescents offerts par la Faculté de génie tout en dégustant un souper léger. Apprenez davantage sur les ateliers Maker Mobile, les clubs de génie pour adolescents, les clubs de robotique, et autres événements et découvrez comment nous pouvons vous aider à intégrer de nouvelles technologies dans vos salles de classe. Ateliers Makerspace 18 h 15 à 20 h 30 Découvrez la programmation avec les Micro:bits et l'impression 3D! Atelier 1 : Découvrez la programmation avec les Micro:bits! Les Micro:bits sont de petites plaques programmables, de la moitié de la taille d'une carte de crédit, conçues pour rendre l'apprentissage de la programmation amusant et facile! Il y a 25 lumières DEL rouges qui peuvent montrer des messages et être utilisés pour créer des jeux. Il y a deux boutons programmables qui peuvent être utilisés pour contrôler les jeux. Il a un accéléromètre pour détecter les mouvements et savoir quand vous êtes en déplacement. La boussole intégrée sait dans quelle direction vous vous dirigez et elle peut utiliser une connexion Bluetooth pour interagir avec d'autres appareils et avec l'Internet. Découvrez cet appareil incroyable lors de notre atelier!  Atelier 2 : Introduction à l'impression 3D Apprenez la conception 3D grâce à Tinkercad, un logiciel gratuit et facile à apprendre. Apprenez comment l'impression 3D peut être utilisée et reliée au curriculum de l'élémentaire au secondaire. Vous aurez des idées concrètes comment utiliser cette technologie dans vos cours! Les places sont limitées - INSCRIVEZ-VOUS DÈS AUJOURD'HUI!  Pour plus d'information sur nos ateliers Maker Mobile, visitez notre site web! Cliquez ici pour plus d'information sur nos ateliers de sciences! Il n'est pas trop tard pour vous inscrire.

Another interesting opportunity for gifted students next fall!

Math Connections in Finance and Science

This new offering has grown out of an awareness that very few of the brighter students, in grades 8 to 10, get exposed to Finance in the Secondary Math Programs, and their awareness of the financial scene is often very limited. 

As you will see from the topics in the course summary, it extends into some interesting areas, and will include case studies I have acquired over the years, to give the students a true sense of applications of finance.

The course will be split between finance and science, so there will be plenty of material to stimulate the enthusiastic student.

Please see Ms. Byrne for details. I will post more info as it comes in!

Good Afternoon!

Here is an interesting opportunity!

We highly encourage you to apply to The Knowledge Society's (TKS) 2019-2020 innovation program. TKS is selecting highly ambitious students ages 13-17 year old to expose them to cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Genomics, Quantum Computing, so that they can solve some of the world’s hardest problems.

The program is led by successful entrepreneurs, who have built and sold companies, and have advised CEOs from the world's top 500 companies. The program is modelled after curriculums from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, and designed to replicate learning environments of companies like Google and Facebook. By the end of the program, they will help you become olympic-level CEOs, innovators, thought leaders, and researchers.

Check out their 2018 recap video to get a high-level understanding of what they do at TKS.

Throughout the program, you will have the opportunity to earn:

• Summer internships (check out what Microsoft and CIBC are saying about their student interns!)
• Attending world-class conferences e.g. Web Summit ($20k value).
• Visiting innovative companies e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple and more
• Speaking at events e.g. - 14 y/o Zaynah @ C2 (in front of 3,000 people)
• Being featured in media e.g. Shalev on Discovery Channel
• Consulting for real-world companies like Airbnb, TD, Microsoft etc... on their top business priorities
• Building your network of executives and intellectually like-minded people

The deadline for applications is on March 31st, 11:59pm. Should take you 45 minutes! To apply and for more information, visit here!