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Empowering STEM Learning Through Digital Innovation: A Summer with Up4 The Challenge

Jackson Y

Sep 308 min read

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...

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How STEM and the Social Sciences Can Benefit From an Integration of Disciplines Using Human-Centred Design

Amy Scott

Jun 205 min read

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...

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April Showers Bring May STEM Flowers: Up4 at John Polanyi Collegiate, May 2023.

Eliot Rossi

Jun 12, 20233 min read

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...

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atoni014

Apr 4, 20222 min read

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...

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Empowering Students to be Agents of Change Through Community-Based Learning

Madeleine Graham

Nov 22, 20214 min read

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...

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Expanding our network: Up4's new connections

Andrea Hemmerich

Nov 11, 20212 min read

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...

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Andrea Hemmerich

Nov 11, 20215 min read

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...

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Andrea Hemmerich

Nov 11, 20212 min read

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...

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The importance of building trust in a learning environment - and how to do it online

Andrea Hemmerich

May 25, 20213 min read

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...

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Lauren Folk

Feb 17, 20201 min read

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...

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Diversity is the new driver of creative design

Andrea Hemmerich

Oct 18, 20193 min read

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...

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How science and math support social innovation

Andrea Hemmerich

Apr 3, 20192 min read

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...

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Improving lives - an approach to addressing gender inequality in STEM

Andrea Hemmerich

Mar 3, 20193 min read

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...

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