Alum helps À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ ignite children's interest in STEM

Friday, February 2, 2024

Hebron Gebre-Mariam (BASc ’07, mechanical engineering), an educator with the À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Region District School Board, helped launch À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµâ€™s Engineering Outreach program, Kids on Campus, in 2022.

The program provides on-campus STEM activities to 8,000 grade four students each school year.

Go to Igniting curiosity and interest in STEM for the full story to read about Gebre-Mariam's inspiration for the program and why early exposure to higher education subjects and environments is important for children’s development and by extension, society at large.   Â