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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

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Brilliant Labs Magazine: Digital Hope

Article en français à suivre Over the past 6 months, our youth and educators have shown incredible resilience. As communities and schools locked down around the globe. Our daily routines were uprooted and quickly substituted with digital platforms providing us with social connection and a sense of hope that technology

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Tell Us What You Need & Know | Survey Contest

Article en français à suivre During this unprecedented time, our region and the world is being disrupted. To help, Brilliant Labs has been steadily creating new content for future learning while helping K-12 youth stay engaged when at home, in their communities or when they return to school this fall.

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Bio-Making: grow & make your own materials

This summer Brilliant Labs is offering youth ages 6+ an opportunity to learn through virtual summer STEAM camps. These camps offer 1-hour daily sessions based on themes and interests. For those who want to learn and have fun we’ve created online sessions for grades 1+ that include camps like

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It Takes a Village, to Make a Community TV Show

Tapping into the world of television and continuing to promote our learning philosophy at home for kids has long been on the radar for Brilliant Labs. Who would have thought that the time to start would have been when everyone was working from home and not able to be in

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Brilliant Labs Magazine: Programming; Social Connection

Le texte français suit l’anglais This school year has been like no other! Brilliant Labs got off to a flying start and introduced a free after school program, a micro-accreditation system to help teachers, students, and parents keep track of a student’s progress with digital skills and competencies,

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Registration is now open for Brilliant Labs’ free, virtual, STEAM summer camps!

Le texte français suit l’anglais Virtual STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) camps will offer content (in English and French) for children aged 6 and up to have fun learning to be artists, engineers, inventors, and scientists on weekdays across Atlantic Canada. Daily content will run for 7

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June Learning- Formation de Juin

What if we could use elements of Design Thinking and Creative Learning to amplify teachers’ voices and empower them to have a choice, adapt, and collectively create meaningful learning experiences for students? Why not embrace the unknown, make mistakes, reflect, and iterate on our pedagogical approaches? Since the beginning of

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Embracing change with curiosity, openness, empathy, and respect

Le texte français suit l’anglais In the past couple of months, Brilliant Labs (BL) has been hard at work adapting to the new normal. Like many, we did not have a pandemic plan in place when we started our confinement. We had to learn to adjust and get comfortable