Summer Reflection | Réflexion d’été

1 TAKE 5 INTERVIEW BY SAMANTHA MCRAE, DIGITAL MEDIA MARKETING ASSISTANT Alexy Leger is a passionate student who has been working with Brilliant Labs as a STEAM mentor since 2020. Alexy has dedicated himself to the field of technology from a young age and spent this past summer delivering camps about cybersecurity, programming, biomaking and much more! He is currently studying at the Université de Moncton with a focus in computer science and hopes to continue on into a career in technology.

We had a cyber security workshop at our high school and we had a demo with the b.Boards. I had the chance to learn how to code by connecting to the Brilliant Labs Cloud and we experimented with weather controlled LED lights. It was all very cool!

How did you become involved with Brilliant Labs? We had a cyber security workshop at our high school and we had a demo with the b.Boards. I had the chance to learn how to code by connecting to the Brilliant Labs Cloud and we experimented with weather controlled LED lights. It was all very cool! A few months after that the pandemic hit and when june came, I had a call from my tech teacher letting me know that Brilliant Labs was hiring and they thought I’d be a good candidate and that’s how I got the job. I had a talk with Jeff Willson and a few weeks later, I became a STEAM mentor (2020, Grade 10). Have you always been interested in computer science? Yeah! I have been interested in computer science for quite a while. When I was young I used to call up my uncle because my parents often got viruses on their computer. He used to work for microsoft and he taught me how to reinstall 20

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windows whenever we got a virus. So that was kind of my start with technology and I have always looked up to him. What was your role as a STEAM mentor? We were delivering camps around south- east New Brunswick delivering camps about Scratch, TinkerCad, biomaking and cyber security. We held workshops where kids can either create games or 3D designs. A lot of them liked creating toys. One of our campers built spare parts for his legos. It was a really

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Summer Reflection | Réflexion d’été

Published on Sep 6, 2022

Brilliant Labs | Labos Créatifs

In this issue of Brilliant Labs Magazine: Summer Reflection, we explore the value of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math education in our community summer camps through stories written by BL STEAM Mentors. We welcome Will Collins, Phd, and Director of Bio Innovation, to our Brilliant Labs team, a multi-faceted researcher with a background in Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering. Will is helping bring enthusiasm for biomedical research and a zeal for open-source bioreactors, lab robotics and biomaking to youth and educators in Atlantic Canada. Dans cette édition de notre revue, Labos Créatifs : Réflexion d’été, nous explorons la valeur de l’enseignement STIMA dans nos camps d’été communautaires par l’entremise de chroniques écrits par nos mentors. Nous souhaitons aussi la bienvenue à Will Collins, qui possède un doctorat en bio médecine et se joint à nous avec le rôle de directeur de la bio-innovation pour les Labos Créatifs.