Power M.E. Up: Student Led Conference

Yesterday, over 300 students from 25 schools participated today in the Power M.E. Up conference which was a student led conference in the areas of STEAM, Coding and Making. I had the pleasure of helping to put together this experience with an absolute amazing team of educators. After months of planning it all came together wonderfully!

 

The day started with four Ted Talks by grade 2, 3 and 10 students. Following these inspirational talks, we had the chance to break off into a variety of sessions that students had pre-registered for that ranged a variety of topics including crotchet, Ozobots maze challenges, baking for a cause, Ruby Goldberg challenges and coding which were entirely run by students for other students and teachers in our family of schools. I had the chance to spend some time in each of these sessions and see how engaged students and teachers were and it was beautiful to see them co-learning and problem solving together. It was also wonderful to see our elementary and secondary panel working together on this journey. The day could not have come together without the support of the Ministry of Education TLLP and PKE grants that our school has had the opportunity to work with in the two years.