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MAKING A DIFFERENCE SPEAKER SERIES 2021-22

Future Careers For Youth Jayson Myers CEO Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen)

March 3rd , 1:30 pm AST

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Brilliant Labs is pleased to announce our next speaker series with Jayson Myers, CEO of Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen), the industry-led community behind Canada’s most transformative advanced manufacturing projects. Advanced manufacturing is changing how people live, and you could play a leading role in making that happen. From fighting climate change to tackling food insecurity, it means a good career building an even better future.. Join NGen for a discussion on how robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other advanced manufacturing is helping to solve some of the world’s challenges

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Mission: Mars is back! In this challenge, students will work together to design, engineer, and prototype a Mars rover to complete as many challenges as they wish.

Students can code their rovers to gather data from sensors. Each participating class will receive a Mission: Mars rover kit along with guides for how to complete missions. Completed rovers will be mailed back to a central location where students will compete over the internet using live video of their rover and a custom coded web based controller. Registration is limited.

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ROBOTZ GOT BRILLIANCE We deeply value the implication of the UN SDG’s. With the innovation and infrastructure goal, and the aim of attaining inclusive and sustainable industrialization, what can our students create? As superfluous as a fun robotic system can be, for example, a robot that chews gum, we urge you to think of the larger implications of such creations. What are the innovations that can be taken from that robot? We are very excited to provide this challenge to our students and see how they can rise to the challenge.

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COMMUNITY OF THE FUTURE There is still time to join the challenge. The challenge is designed to encourage students to consider social, economic, ecological and environmental issues in our communities and how these issues influence Atlantic Canadians. We have lesson plans, resources guides, videos, exit slips, glossary and much more.

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INSPIRATION MAKER: MARCH 2022

Do you know a teacher who inspires students by trying new teaching methods, projects, technology or other hands-on learning activies? If so, email info@brilliantlabs.ca SUBJECT: Inspiration Maker, to be recognized in our monthly newsletter & social media channels. Remember to tell us why & include a photo!

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More Upcoming Events Walk In Colours!

Join Brilliant Labs and “I move, I learn” movement for this colorful Heath and Wellness walk!

Let’s plant seeds of happiness! Their mission is to develop, promote and facilitate the implementation of various activities and access to educational resources in order to give students, their families and the community the desire to acquire the knowledge, skills and motivation to maintain a healthy life. This year participating classes will be able to help their native ecosystems by planting seeds of their provinces official flowers .

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Looking For Project Ideas?

Our project portal contains over 140 project ideas available in French and English for you to do at home or in your class. You can search our data base by United Nation SDG, by tech, by school subject or peruse through all the projects to inspire new ideas.

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Monthly Coding Challenges This year Brilliant Labs will be challenging teachers and students to code stories, games, apps, robots, and more! Visit brilliantlabs.ca/codingchallenges monthly for new code-to-learn challenges and resources!

EARTH DAY APRIL 22 What if this year we spent Earth day outside exploring all the beauties of nature around us?

We have taken the liberty of creating some teaching resources for you to help plan your Brilliant Earth day!

Reach out to our Natural Making Specialist. Email: Michelle@brilliantlabs.ca to plan your Earth day outdoors.

INSPIRATION MAKERS! This year Brilliant Labs is looking for those teachers who inspire others to be their best and who are taking chances to try new things to educate students. We're pleased to share this Newfoundland and Labrador "Inspiration Maker!"

WHO: SHELLEY DALTON-STEAD WHERE: HOLY CROSS SCHOOL COMPLEX Shelley has been an educator for 14 years and if you could ask her to sum up her teaching style with one quote she would say "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" by W. B. Yeats.

Shelley has always believed in learning by doing and this is clearly evident when she combines her Science, Skilled Trades and Technology background within her classes and Student Leadership group .

Most recently she has been one of the lead teachers in the roll out of the new Computer Science 8 program, and was one of the lead teachers in the makerspace application for her school.

She thrives on student engagement through experiments and inquisitive creations and has a champion maker mindset in her building.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHT

Science 1206 students from Jason Counsel’s class at Holy Heart of Mary High School in St. John’s, NL were given a design challenge: make a weather station, and if possible, make it wearable.

"Students in my class made weathernecklaces, arm bands, hats, and a cool set of music-playing weather-glasses!

One student used a micro:bit and some accessories to build a weather watch, complete with hand-controls for different functions. Another student used her love of coding and integrated her station with an Arduino microcontroller.

Tech Support Whether you have your materials from last year or just registered, we are here to help you along the way with your challenges. You can always reach out to us via email info@brilliantlabs.ca or send us a video ask and we will reply with a video.

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Sometimes we just have to set up the right conditions to let learning happen."

- Jason Counsel

CARDBOARD ROBOTICS Calling All Grade 10-12 Teachers. Let's have fun with cardboard and robotics!

Learn how to code and create robots in two classes! Contact John Barron for more information email: john@brilliantlabs.ca

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