Wednesday 4 September 2019
Welcome Back to all of our students! I will be sending home information shortly regarding our enrichment trips to the National Art Centre this year! Please check the blog weekly to see if there are any activities happening in our community that you would like to attend!Wishing everyone a great year!
Tuesday 7 May 2019
A great opportunity happening this Thursday!
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Tuesday 16 April 2019
Another interesting opportunity for gifted students next fall!
Math Connections in Finance and Science
This new offering has grown out of an awareness that very few of the brighter students, in grades 8 to 10, get exposed to Finance in the Secondary Math Programs, and their awareness of the financial scene is often very limited.
As you will see from the topics in the course summary, it extends into some interesting areas, and will include case studies I have acquired over the years, to give the students a true sense of applications of finance.
The course will be split between finance and science, so there will be plenty of material to stimulate the enthusiastic student.
Please see Ms. Byrne for details. I will post more info as it comes in!
Friday 29 March 2019
Good Afternoon!
Here is an interesting opportunity!
Here is an interesting opportunity!
We highly encourage you to apply to The Knowledge Society's (TKS) 2019-2020 innovation program. TKS is selecting highly ambitious students ages 13-17 year old to expose them to cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Genomics, Quantum Computing, so that they can solve some of the world’s hardest problems.
The program is led by successful entrepreneurs, who have built and sold companies, and have advised CEOs from the world's top 500 companies. The program is modelled after curriculums from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, and designed to replicate learning environments of companies like Google and Facebook. By the end of the program, they will help you become olympic-level CEOs, innovators, thought leaders, and researchers.
Check out their 2018 recap video to get a high-level understanding of what they do at TKS.
Throughout the program, you will have the opportunity to earn:
- Summer internships (check out what Microsoft and CIBC are saying about their student interns!)
- Attending world-class conferences e.g. Web Summit ($20k value).
- Visiting innovative companies e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple and more
- Speaking at events e.g. - 14 y/o Zaynah @ C2 (in front of 3,000 people)
- Being featured in media e.g. Shalev on Discovery Channel
- Consulting for real-world companies like Airbnb, TD, Microsoft etc... on their top business priorities
- Building your network of executives and intellectually like-minded people
The deadline for applications is on March 31st, 11:59pm. Should take you 45 minutes! To apply and for more information, visit here!
Wednesday 17 October 2018
FOR OUR GIFTED WRTIERS PLEASE CONSIDER PARTICIPATING!!!!
Hi All,
This is a great day for gifted writers in our board. It is very very popular, so even though registration opens next month when I saw it I thought I should get the word out.
Link is below
Your Story: MASC Teen Authors & Illustrators Festival
Next years event is coming up. Mark your calendars now!
‘Your Story’ will be held on Friday February 8th, 2019 at the Confederation Learning Centre, 1645 Woodroffe Avenue, in Ottawa. Students in grades 8 to 12 attended a day of hands-on creative workshops led by some of Canada’s finest authors and illustrators of teen literature. Students will take part in a number of literary events throughout the day, as well as the launch of the 2nd annual Jan Andrews Literary Award: a Teen writing competition.
Registration opens in November 2018
For information please contact Wendy Hartley at
wendyhartley@masconline.ca
wendyhartley@masconline.ca
ANOTHER AWESOME OPPORTUNITY!
From: Code Queens <codequeensottawa@gmail.com>
This is Areena. Adam Nadeau from Nokia had referred your name to me regarding the OCSB's involvement in our conference.
I'm sending over the information for Colonel By's upcoming student-led girls in STEM conference hosted at Nokia Ottawa in December.
The event information is below, and I'm attaching a flyer for the contact to have as well. If they are interested, please have them fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/
CODE_QUEENS CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Code_Queens is a youth STEM conference run by girls, for girls. Hosted at Nokia's Ottawa Campus on December 5th, our mission is to reimagine the culture for the next generation of young women entering STEM.
Event Mandate
1) Target girls in middle school (grades 7-8) before they lose interest in a career pathway related to STEM, and enable them to choose high school courses to pursue it.
2) Provide insight into life as a woman engineer, shattering common misconceptions about coding: that it's boring, a desk job only, and a 'boys club'.
3) Equip girls with the skills to pursue a STEM career, from programming in Python to planning, designing, and wireframing a solution to a technical problem
Event Outline
1) Morning session with yoga to engage the girls, a two-hour Intro to Python Programming workshop, and a keynote speaker from Shopify with an inspiring message on overcoming the challenges for a woman entering STEM.
2) Catered lunch 'connection session' held conference style, meeting women in engineering from Nokia who'll share their advice and listen to the girls' perspectives on STEM.
3) Afternoon tech challenge presented by Nokia, introducing wireframing and design concepts to the girls, and a final pitch fair, with top three teams earning prizes.
How to get engaged?
Fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/
Thanks!
Areena
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