Pathways to Healthcare
Mohawk College’s "Pathways to Healthcare: Navigating Your Journey" event, is a comprehensive exploration of the healthcare industry's diverse career paths and program opportunities that Mohawk has to offer. If you are a student interested in pursuing a healthcare-related profession, this event is designed to provide valuable insights and guidance for your future. Students were put into groups and explored the various living labs at the IAHS campus. Where they got to explore the labs and meet faculty from the program areas. Faculty demonstrated how the labs work, what students do in the lab and how it relates to their program and future jobs in healthcare.
This event is open to students and teachers from Halton and Hamilton-Wentworth District School Boards. This event runs each year in early spring. Select schools will be offered seats for participation by their school board.
Destination College
Mohawk’s Destination College Experiential Learning Event is sponsored by the School-College-work Initiative. For over 20 years Destination College has been opening the doors to the college, welcoming grade 7 students and their teachers to explore college pathways and learn about potential careers, through experiential learning workshops. This may help students discover new career opportunities and interests, and help them decide on their upcoming high school course selections. Teachers will also learn of new careers and, developments in related post-secondary education.
This event is open to students and teachers from Halton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Brantford and Grand Erie District School Boards. This event runs each year in May. Select schools will be offered seats for participation by their school board.
CODEfest
CODEfest exposes youth in grades 7 and 8 to the world of technology through a variety of sessions and empowers them to make informed and intentional education and career choices. Sessions include presentations from industry professionals and college students, and highly interactive workshops. The events provide youth with an opportunity to build basic skills, a level of familiarity with digital technology, and new perspectives on how to solve problems and build resilience at a young age.
We aim to help students discover and investigate new interests and possible future career path opportunities while providing insights to help them in their upcoming high school course selections. Attending teachers will also benefit from learning about new digital careers and related developments in post-secondary education to help them continue inspiring their students with up-to-date and relevant information.
This event is open to students and teachers from the Hamilton-Wentworth School Boards. This event runs each year in May. Select schools will be offered seats for participation by their school board.
Drive Your Future
It's a Drag Race with a Drag Queen
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, 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.
This event runs each year in the fall and is open to students in grades 9-12. Check back for registration details in August.
Girls Night Out
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.
This event runs each year in the summer/fall and is open to students in grades 6-8. Check back for registration details in August/September.
Life is a Highway
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.
This event runs each year in the summer/fall and is open to students in grades 6-8. Check back for registration details in August/September.
MoHacks HealthQuest
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.
This event runs each year in the fall and is open to high school students. Check back for registration details in August/September.