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Empowering STEM Learning Through Digital Innovation: A Summer with Up4 The Challenge
This summer, I had the opportunity to work with Up4 The Challenge, an initiative that leverages scientific and technological innovation...
Jackson Y
Sep 30, 20248 min read
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How STEM and the Social Sciences Can Benefit From an Integration of Disciplines Using Human-Centred Design
Within my own experience in my education, and I’m sure for many others, there has always felt like there exists a firm distinction...
Amy Scott
Jun 21, 20245 min read
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April Showers Bring May STEM Flowers: Up4 at John Polanyi Collegiate, May 2023.
The cornerstone of our community work at Up4 The Challenge is the STEM Design Experience workshop, where students from grades 7 to 12...
Eliot Rossi
Jun 12, 20233 min read
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A Moment with Up4 The Challenge
By: Attilio Tonin (Volunteer and Student in Education Program at the University of Ottawa) Up4 The Challenge and their workshops inspire...
atoni014
Apr 4, 20222 min read
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Empowering Students to be Agents of Change Through Community-Based Learning
By: Madeleine Graham (Volunteer with Up4 The Challenge and B. Ed Candidate at University of Ottawa) “In problem-posing education, people...
Madeleine Graham
Nov 22, 20214 min read
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Expanding our network: Up4's new connections
The beginning of the academic year is often an exciting time - a chance to meet new teachers, students, and friends and to consider the...
Andrea Hemmerich
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Pari's experience as an Up4 Fellow
Parichart Sonchaiya spent six weeks with us at Up4 The Challenge in the spring of 2021 as part of her Ryerson Fellowship. Here's what she...
Andrea Hemmerich
Nov 11, 20215 min read
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Anyone Up4 volunteering?
We are thrilled to have four volunteers working with us and wanted to introduce you to them! Hello! My name is Megan Provost and I am...
Andrea Hemmerich
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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The importance of building trust in a learning environment - and how to do it online
Most of us are probably aware of how challenging the last year has been for students, educators, and parents as we navigate between...
Andrea Hemmerich
May 25, 20213 min read
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Our Toronto Star!
Exciting news! Our very own Andrea Hemmerich was interviewed by the Toronto Star as part of an article about girls in STEM. Check out the...
Lauren Folk
Feb 17, 20201 min read
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Diversity is the new driver of creative design
I am not alone in having zigzagged in and out of traditional science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations because of my...
Andrea Hemmerich
Oct 18, 20193 min read
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How science and math support social innovation
We use #HumanCentredDesign to show how #STEM can help change the world. (This post was originally published by National Engineering Month...
Andrea Hemmerich
Apr 3, 20192 min read
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Improving lives - an approach to addressing gender inequality in STEM
(This post was originally published on LinkedIn in November 2017.) When I completed my undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, my...
Andrea Hemmerich
Mar 3, 20193 min read
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