Quality | 2019.07.22
MindFuel Awarded $2M in CanCode Funding to Support Underrepresented Youth across Canada
Funding to help Canadian educators, girls, youth with disabilities, rural youth, youth-at-risk, and Indigenous youth to build digital skills. MindFuel (Science Alberta Foundation) is pleased to announce it has been approved to receive $2,000,000 as part of the CanCode program. Funded by the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), the CanCode program exists to provide students in kindergarten through grade 12 opportunities to develop digital skills – including coding, data analytics and digital content development – and to provide training and professional development in these areas to pre-service, elementary and secondary teachers. Quality STEM-learning resources focused on coding and digital literacy will be made widely and freely available to students across Canada via our award-winning online learning platform, Wonderville.org, and is projected to reach more than 124,000 girls, youth with disabilities, Indigenous youth, and youth living in rural or remote areas across Canada by March 2021. Additionally, five percent of those students reached will receive instruction as part of an in-the-field initiative designed specifically for youth with disabilities and youth-at-risk in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
(PRWeb July 22, 2019)
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