STEAM FEST 2023

The ABC hosted the annual STEAM Fest Celebration on March 10th this year, in person and across the school. The event which was a huge success took place across the primary and secondary with primary grades up to and including 4th grade in the performing arts centre and the 5th grade together with secondary in the  Auditorium. 

Each year students from across the school get together to present a variety of exciting ross disciplinary STEAM(  Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) projects. This was extra special as it is the first year since the pandemic that our school has been able to invite guests from schools and organizations in the community. We were thrilled to have them join us and participate in the event. 

This year, we held our first hackathon during STEAM Fest, in which students from the ABC and Maquilushuat students schools worked on teams to solve a local parking and school drop-off challenge. 

In doing so they use a variety of digital and analog resources.

The hackathon was a huge success.

At the end of a rather intense day two very different solutions emerged and were presented. Here is a short video of Hackathon 2023 highlights. 
 

Hackathon 2023 

 The community was able to watch segments of  STEAM  Fest throughout the day via the live stream which took place in the Auditorium. This enabled parents to tune in and watch the students showcase their creations and share their ideas. It was inspiring to see the fruition of so much creativity, teamwork, critical thinking and innovation on display.

 The STEAM Fest top project results were announced last week, and the results are as follows. 

The tribal star competition also rendered some exciting results. 

Here is a short video from the event as well as the link to our Flickr album.

STEAM FEST 2023 

This year's STEAM Fest Celebration was a huge success, and we were thrilled to have so many guests from the community. It was a great opportunity for students to showcase their skills and talents and collaborate with other students from different schools. We cannot wait until next year's event and hope to continue to inspire and support our students in their STEAM pursuits.

Creative Destruction Summit

A few weeks ago an ex-student of ours, who is currently studying in Canada at the University of Toronto, contacted us about a wonderful, international, collaborative opportunity for our students, the Creative Destruction Summit. The summit which was held on March 7th is a "virtual international symposium of emerging technology for all high school students who are interested in STEM and entrepreneurship".

The majority of our 11th and 12th grade Computer Science, ITGS and Digital Society Students attended the two 1 hour sessions. After the initial session in which young entrepreneurs in the area of technology held a panel discussion, the students were sent to break out rooms in Zoom to discuss artificial intelligence and space with the other participants from around the world. 

Our ABC ROCS did a wonderful job of contributing their thoughts and questions during both sessions. Once the summit ended, they participated in discussions with their groups and in doing so did a great job of making further meaning and summing up their findings. 

These opportunities for international collaborative learning becoming a lot more common than they used to be. Many are brought to our attention by our very own exhibits who study locally and abroad and work across different sectors. This brings even further relevance to such opportunities as they provide further insight into a  wider academic world awaiting them enabling them to explore many possibilities which they may not have considered had they not been presented with these innovative learning opportunities.

We would like to thank all of the students who participated as well as the organisers who made this possible at UofT. A special thank you goes out to our two student Ambassadors, Giuliana Falconio and Natalia Rivas, both 11th-grade students, who were in charge of representing us and running communications in both Zoom and Slack.