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Virtual After-School Programs Starting May 3 & Projects Wanted for Atlantic Maker Faire!

( le français à suivre) On June 9th Brilliant Labs will be hosting an Atlantic Canada Wide Maker Faire. If you know a young crafter, coder or all-around hands-on creator be sure to share this post with them. Registration is open and Makers will be asked to share videos or photos

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April Newsletters!

(Français à suivre) Brilliant Labs is happy to present our April Provincial Newsletters! We are so excited to continue to support teachers and students in their classrooms, as well as innovators at home! Be sure to check your provincial newsletter for free professional learning sessions, maker challenges, and more! Below

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Making a Difference Speaker Series: Bio Buddies

Making a Difference Speaker Series: Bio Buddies A conversation with student entrepreneurs Emily Takara, Trisha Sathish, Anne Hu (with Corrine Takara) Brilliant Labs is pleased to host our next virtual speaker series event that will introduce three inspiring teen bio entrepreneurs. Join Emily, Trisha and Anne as they share their

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Walk in Colours! Marche en couleurs!

français à suivre Walk theme: Tie-Dye Day! Description: On June 11th, join Brilliant Labs and “I Move…I Learn” teams for this colourful Health and Wellness walk! When: June 11, 2021 Who: Calling on all school class bubbles, as well as individuals from communities across the Atlantic provinces, Canada and

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What if time spent in nature had a significant effect on climate change?

(Français à suivre) #EXPRESSYOURCLIMATE An initiative by Brilliant Labs in collaboration with Troupe JAM! The goal of the initiative is to give a voice to youth and raise awareness about climate change in a unique way. First, teachers are invited to discuss the benefits of spending time outdoors in the

Nova Scotia

FREE March-Break NS & PEI: #MakerFUN Activities | Session virtuelle, GRATUITE Pour le congé de mars

(Le français suit) Hello NS & PEI students! Stay tuned for daily March Break #MakerFUN activities. We will be offering daily live sessions including scratch workshops and #MakerFUN activities like making your own binary bracelet and a personal green house animal. Plus, all week long learn JavaScript at your own

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Green Energy Projects Propelled by Brilliant Labs Funding

We love supporting teachers to help them make their over-the-top ideas a reality. With Brilliant Labs classroom project funding, thousands of teachers across Atlantic Canada have been able to remove the barrier of access to materials in order to bring powerful learning experiences to their students. Last fall, we were

New Brunswick

FREE March-Break: #MakerFUN Activities Session virtuelle, GRATUITE Pour le congé de mars

(Le français suit) Hello NB students! Stay tuned for daily March Break #MakerFUN activities. We will be offering daily live sessions including scratch workshops, outdoor exploration ideas, and #MakerFUN activities like making your own binary bracelet, personal green house animal and an origami fish tank. Register for any of our

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Making a Difference Speaker Series: Creativity and Robotics

An exploration with our Innovation Engineer, Josh Keys We are pleased to announce our next speaker series session with Josh Keys, MScE, P. Eng. Josh is an Electrical Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the electrical, clinical, physical rehabilitation, and biomedical engineering fields. He has extensive experience in

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February Newsletters!

(Français à suivre) Brilliant Labs is happy to present our February Provincial Newsletters! We are so excited to continue to support teachers and students in their classrooms, as well as innovators at home! Be sure to check your provincial newsletter for free professional learning sessions, maker challenges and more! Below

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Making a Difference Speaker Series: Designing with Nature

How can we collaborate with nature and biological systems to make art? We are pleased to announce our next speaker series session with Tosca Terán, an interdisciplinary artist. We are looking forward to welcoming Tosca to share her amazing projects, vision, and ideas that blend art, science, and engineering boundaries.

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Creativity During Pandemic: A Blog Series Introduction

Thanks for joining us on this journey. All of us have been on a complex journey since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly one year ago. This project: Creativity During a Pandemic is a product of the reflective work between Dr. Viktor Freiman and Jacob Lingley. Since the beginning of the

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FREE After-School Programs (virtual) are back!

français à suivre Our after-school program was such a success we levelled up. These virtual programs are suitable for beginners but challenging enough for youth who took the sessions last fall and are ready for the next challenge. Monday to Thursday from 4 pm – 5 pm AST, running from January

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January Newsletters!

(Français à suivre)     Brilliant Labs is happy to present our January Provincial Newsletters! We are so excited to continue to support teachers and students in their classrooms, as well as innovators at home! Be sure to check your provincial newsletter for free professional learning sessions, maker challenges and more! Below

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Brilliant Labs Magazine: Making Connections

(Le français à suivre) With the holidays upon us and 2020 coming to a close, many families will be hosting virtual celebrations and creating memories in innovative ways. This will serve as yet another reminder of the many trials and tribulations the pandemic has brought but will also demonstrate the

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Join the Conversation in January with our Brilliant Labs Speaker Series

Calling All Makers, Educators and Parents, Brilliant Labs is pleased to announce our next two virtual speaker series events that will introduce biowerable technologies, socio-emotional learning and outdoor learning. We are thrilled to welcome Professor Alissa N. Antle and Clayton Maitland and can’t wait to hear what they have

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December's MakerNewsletter

Brilliant Labs is happy to present our December Provincial Newsletters! Let’s get ready for a brilliant December! Join us for Computer Science Week next week filled will coding challenges. You and your students can take the Brilliant Holiday Challenge, log onto our monthly coding challenges or join national programs

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12 Days of Brilliant Making

(Français à suivre) Holidays are a great time for making. We often see craft shows popping up here and there and all these amazing kits being sold for lots of money. But what if we took time and really enjoyed the most important values that the season offers? At Brilliant

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Shaping the Future Through Morphing Matter, Conversations with Professor Lining Yao

Making a Difference BL Speaker Series Calling All Makers, Educators and Parents, Brilliant Labs is pleased to host our next virtual speaker series event that will introduce the exciting possibilities of Robotic Morphing Materials Via 4D Printing. We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Lining Yao to share her work, passions,

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FREE After-School Programs (Virtual) | Programmes Virtuels Aprés Classe Gratuits

We are happy to share the launch of our FREE After-School Programming to support learning from anywhere! These virtual STEAM learning programs are four weeks long and offer hands-on projects ranging from coding, machine learning, web development and cyber security, to bio-making and entrepreneurship for the young inventor. Nous sommes

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November Newsletters!

(Français à suivre) Brilliant Labs is happy to present our November Provincial Newsletters! We have had a brilliantly busy fall, with professional learning opportunities, a great start to our speaker series and virtually getting back into classrooms. We are so excited to continue to support teachers and students in their

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October is Cyber Security Month

(Français à suivre) At Brilliant Labs, we work hard to offer you the best technological tools to meet your teaching objectives. The last few months have certainly changed our habits, but more importantly have changed certain teaching practices – think of online teaching, for example. October being the month of cyber

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Making a Difference Speaker Series Highlights: Socially Responsible and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

On October 8, 2020, we hosted our kick-off ‘Making a Difference: Speaker Series’ event for audiences grade 6 and up. Roughly 600 participants engaged in an interactive panel-style session. We were delighted to have Beth Stevens, a student innovator; David Alston, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Brilliant Labs; and Keith

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Brilliant Labs is happy to present our latest Provincial Newsletters!

(Français à suivre) All of us at Brilliant Labs have been very busy putting events together that cover all four Atlantic Provinces. So many in fact, that we created a series of provincial newsletters so that we can keep them all straight! Keep an eye out for these newsletters each

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CBC Kids News is hosting a Minecraft back-to-school live event

Join us Saturday, October 10th, in-game mc.cbckidsnews.ca (Java edition) at 5pm ADT/5:30 NDT We’re collaborating with Brilliant Labs and kids to build a unique CBC Kids News World inside Minecraft. Modeled after the atrium inside the CBC building in Toronto and complete with the iconic