Educators and students across Canada gain access to STEM programming from home

In 2020 we saw the rapid and wide-spread adoption of online productivity and learning tools in homes around the world. Parents and educators faced the challenge of teaching remotely at scale – over 90% of the world’s student population faced some sort of school closure this year.
We have a long history of working closely with community partners and organizations across Canada to make STEM programs accessible to all students, focusing heavily on breaking down the socio-economic barriers that some students face in receiving this type of education. But this year was different – educators had to navigate how to teach remotely and students were learning virtually at home. So we brought our STEM programs to where teachers and students needed it the most – online.
Supporting teachers and parents to bring the classroom home
Investing in STEM education to prepare today’s young learners for the future of work
Once classrooms were better equipped to handle online learning, we connected with various school boards across the country to offer CS First training – A free computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn. We facilitated CS First activities for 83,000+ Canadian learners this year with CS First, bringing 197,000+ hours of computer science programming into classrooms.
Getting students excited about STEM education is a goal we share with many organizations across Canada. That’s why we worked with local and national partners to offer funding and resources to support additional STEM outreach, and connect with students with barriers to access. Thank you to Canada Learning Code, Kids Code Jeunesse, LAUNCH Waterloo, House of Friendship, Carizon, SHAD, and so many more organizations, for bringing STEM to more learners across the country.
We also saw new progress this year as the Ontario Ministry of Education introduced a new Math curriculum, which includes coding expectations. To support teachers as they implement this new curriculum, we’ve directly mapped the coding expectations to the CS First program so that teachers with little to no experience in computer science can bring coding to life in their classrooms.
As the world moved increasingly online this year, it’s put a spotlight on technology and the positive impact it can have on our lives. We will continue to invest in the technology builders of tomorrow and bring more STEM & computer science programs into classrooms across Canada.
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