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.