Drive Your Future
It's a Drag Race with a Drag Queen - Register Now!
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Time: 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 481 Barton St, Stoney Creek Campus
This program will use LEGO Spike kits, which are highly interactive tools for student learning. They provide hands-on experiences that foster creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. LEGO Spike kits are specially designed for STEM education. Students (parents and guardians are welcome too!) can build models that demonstrate physics, mechanics, and robotics principles, making abstract concepts more concrete and understandable. Students can also learn basic coding and robotics, developing programming logic, sequence, and algorithmic thinking skills. Incorporating LEGO kits into the curriculum provides a dynamic and interactive way to engage students, making learning more enjoyable and effective.
This event is a safe queer space focusing on Grade 11 and 12 students, especially those in the 2SLGBTQ+ community and allies, culminating in a time-trial event on Saturday, September 28th , hosted by a drag queen. This event provides a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment. The program, delivered through state-of-the-art facilities, also emphasizes the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the shift to electric vehicles. Through engaging activities and mentorship, "Drive Your Future" aims to inspire students and their families, foster interest in STEM, and create clear career pathways in the automotive and mobility sector.
More details regarding the event will be sent to participants after registration.
Girls Night Out - Register Now!
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
Students in Grade 6, 7 & 8 identifying as female, will participate in workshops to build an electric car with their parent or guardian. Upon completion of the build, students will be introduced to STEM and work through an exercise to identify elements of STEM within the automotive and mobility sector.
Life is a Highway - Register Now!
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Brant County (TBC)
Students in Grade 6, 7 & 8 will participate in workshops to build an electric car with their parent or guardian. Upon completion of the build, students will be introduced to STEM and work through an exercise to identify elements of STEM within the automotive and mobility sector.
MoHacks HealthQuest - Registration Open
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Time: 8:00am to 10:30pm
Location: Collaboratory (2nd floor of Cummings Library, H Wing Room H201), Fennell Campus
Join us for the second annual MoHacks HealthQuest hackathon powered by the Mischa Weisz Foundation, where teams of high school students will design solutions to health care challenges!
Participants will choose one of several health care challenges to solve at the beginning of the event. The focus is creative and innovative design, rather than coding or prototyping, to keep it accessible for high school students. An example health care challenge could be, “design a mobile application to help teenagers to quit vaping.”
Students will then work in teams of 1-4 throughout the day on their designs. This can include mockups (or drawings) of what a mobile application or website could look like, design documents and flow charts, or coding portions of the application.
At the end of the day, participants will present their solutions to judges, who will award the best teams with respect to multiple judging categories. Participants will be provided with lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks. Mentors will also be present throughout the day to assist the teams.
Registration is open to all high school students enrolled in grades 9-12.