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June Newsletters!

(Français à suivre) Brilliant Labs is happy to present our June 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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Save the date for our Atlantic Canada School Maker Faire

(Français à suivre) Brilliant Labs is excited to present our Atlantic Canada virtual School Maker Faire! On June 9th Brilliant Labs will be hosting an Atlantic Canada Wide Maker Faire where we will highlight student projects. It will kick-off live on our brand new Twitch channel. If you know a

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May Newsletters!

(Français à suivre) Brilliant Labs is happy to present our May 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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Coffee and conversation- Café et conversation

Why coffee and conversation? We can get so much out of this popular beverage… there are so many varieties, we can say the same about our teachers, students, tools and pedagogies. At Brilliant Labs, we wanted to have a different perspective of professional development; low pressure-high results. Coffee has a