By Yasmin Ranade
With the new federal budget announced at the end of February 2018, I wondered what tech professionals and thought leaders were hoping for. Were some looking for increased tech and STEM-related spending for Canadian businesses? Were others looking for incentives to bring new global tech companies to Canada, which would employ Canadian technologists? Would the Government increase spending for STEM in schools?
By Christine Persaud
As AI develops further, several companies are looking at ways that they can innovate and enhance jobs (and, let’s not sugar-coat it, reduce the cost of a human workforce), whether entry-level or highly-skilled, through the use of robots.
By Yasmin Ranade
Teachers of Canadian classrooms from Grades 6 to 12 can now enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge until February 28, 2018.
by Lee Rickwood
One of the world’s most successful women entrepreneurs teamed up with the premier of Ontario to support and encourage women entrepreneurs in Canada, China and elsewhere.
By Gadjo cardenas Sevilla
There’s been a recent surge in interest on getting kids to code, helping them foster a desire for building and creating as well as finding solutions to problems.
By Yasmin Ranade
Samsung Canada announced the final four, regional winners in its Solve for Tomorrow Challenge, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-based education initiative that seeks to spark student interest in these subjects.
By Yasmin Ranade
Today, Google Canada revealed the national winner and three grade group winners of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest. Of those four masterpieces, 11th-grader Jana Sofia Panem’s Doodle, “A Bright Future” was selected as the national winner!
By Yasmin Ranade
Google is asking Canadians to vote for their favourite doodles by June 2 to give students a chance to have the winner’s artwork takeover Google.ca for a day and win a $10,000 university scholarship as well as a $10,000 scholarship for his/her school.