News, Stories, and Blog Posts
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READesign has been such a huge success in Alberta that we decided to bring it to Ontario! On November 7th, BrainSTEM Alliance, in collaboration with Lambton County, hosted our inaugural Ontario READesign event at the Sarnia Library. We had over 25 Beaver Scouts in attendance that evening. The Beaver Scouts, aged between 5 and…
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The High River Library in partnership with BrainSTEM Alliance is excited to bring a new session of the Project READesign program to High River this November 2017! Join other curious and inventive youth age 10-14 years in designing, building, and testing devices to solve problems for…
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Host of IMPACT Radio and Director of Communications and Community Impact at the United Way of Fort McMurray, Russell Thomas, recently penned an article on our founder D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika. Read the full story in the Fort McMurray Today here: http://eedition.fortmcmurraytoday.com/epaper/viewer.aspx Or view the pdf here: Fort-McMurray-Today-e-edition-DAndre Thanks Russell for the kind words!
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On July 25th, we partnered with the WBRL again to host the READesign Challenge in Fort McKay! We had a total of 16 students, 6 boys and 10 girls, participate in the session. They worked in teams to read a book and solve the problem using engineering design. They had to choose their materials…
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BrainSTEM Alliance was featured on IMPACT Radio this past week! Our founder, D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika was featured as one of the 100 Faces of United Way. She spoke on 91.1 The Bridge Radio about some of the programming we have done and the exciting initiatives on the way! Take a listen here: http://www.fmunitedway.com/impact/impact-dandre-wilson-ihejirika/
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On April 23rd, 2017, the first READesign Challenge was hosted at the WBRL in Fort McMurray. A total of eight students aged 8-10 stepped up to the challenge! Each pair had to search the library shelves for a book. Within the 2 hours they read the book, decided on a problem in the book…
