Workshops:
- Robotics Demonstration - McGill Robotics Team
- Engineering Lab Tour - Centre for Intelligent Machines
- Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Curriculum - University of Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre’s STEM Outreach Programs, by Lu Lentz and Cheryl Maksymyk
- The University of Waterloo’s Aboriginal Education Centre hosts a number of STEM based outreach programs for Indigenous youth. We will be discussing our approaches to combining Indigenous methodologies and STEM-based curriculum into our High School Directions Conference and our summer camps geared to children ages 10-12 and their caregivers. Using a participatory approach we will summarize our successes as well as our challenges to Indigenous knowledge integration with the purpose of strengthening the Indigenization of STEM academia.
Dinner and activities out in Montreal:
- Crescent street suggested for dinner
- Parc street for cheaper, fast food dinner (e.g. Thai Express)
- St. Laurent, St. Catherines, St. Denis streets suggested for dinner and exploring
- Underground Mall and St. Catherines suggested for shopping
- Friday night: Various hangout events on campus, we suggest the Engineering Basement or SSMU Basement if it is cold out