The LEARN team was at Montreal’s Canadian Wide Science Fair in May where we presented “Making a case for makerspaces,” and welcomed students from across Canada to our interactive booth. It was three wonderful days of making with teachers and students.
LBPSB Summer Institute 2016
The LEARN team completed its’ 2015-2016 school year with two amazing days with teachers from Lester B. Pearson School Board on June 28 and 29th. We hosted six sessions over the two days “Making a Case for the Maker Mindset.”
Remixed MTL – November 26th 2016
On November 26th LEARN’s Pop-Up makerspace collaborated with Remixed Camp 2016 and offered a full day of making to the attendees. Educators from across the province joined us in tinkering, making, discussing, and collaborating. It was a very enjoyable event
LEARN’s Innovative Playground @ QPAT 2017
LEARN setup its Innovative Playground at QPAT this year, exposing educators to a vast variety of teaching tools and innovative techniques. We made buttons, art, computer programs, e-textiles, gelli plating, floor pianos, robotic hats and on and on. We demoed
Edgewater Elementary Electricity Unit – Final Day 2018
LEARN and Edgewater facilitated the final exploratory day on electricity, delving deeply into circuits. The students were “shockingly” awesome. Students learned and played with all kinds of circuits, including making Bug Circuits, makey makey floor pianos, littleBits, paper circuits with
Edgewater STEAM Day – January 2018
The LEARN team spent a day working with a the grade 6’s at Edgewater Elementary school. They loved Scratch games, artbots, circuit bugs, and E-Textiles. Every student succeeded and had an artifact to prove it. Great work Edgewater. The faces
PETES STEAM Challenge Day with Grade 3
Grade 3 groups are quickly becoming one of LEARN’s favourite grades to work with. Yes we are exhausted at the end of the day, but their unbridled enthusiasm and pure creativity is so refreshing to be apart of… We explored
Edgewater Elementary Grade 1 STEAM Day – Sept. 2017
LEARN worked with a grade 1 class for its’ first official STEAM Day of the year. What a wonderful day. These students learned how to cooperate, share, communicate, create, innovate, build, code, program all in a day. Mme. Pascale’s class
Morin Heights Elementary STEAM Day 2017
The LEARN Team visited Morin Heights in the beautiful Laurentian’s just before the end of school. We did something a little different this time, we had three grade levels (grade 3,4,5) spend 1 1/2 hours exploring our pop-up makerspace. Next
Eastern Shores STEAM Challenges 2017
The LEARN team recently visited Eastern Shores school board for an entire week. We challenged 4 schools (elementary and secondary) with STEAM. Once again we saw success on every level. The students were implicated, engaged and very creative. The maker