By Ryan MacLean | Project Manager
TakingITGlobal has introduced a fresh new program to bring opportunities and resources to empower young people.
The Sprout Ideas Camp is an opportunity for campers ages 8-12 to engage with new technologies and pressing global issues in a live setting for one week. TakingITGlobal lauched this camp by hosting it for two weeks at the Ontario College of Art and Design’s Inclusive Design Institute, with support from Apple, Promethean, and Pearson Foundation.
The camp design drew on TakingITGlobal’s rich diversity of programs, including the Sprout e-Course, as well as in-house knowledge and skills. The camp delivered an innovative program model integrating these themes and focus areas: digital games, social entrepreneurship, project mandates, team building, coding, logo design, 3D printing, prototyping, storyboarding, and presentations and public speaking. The first week’s campers formed teams which selected as their issues, Homelessness, Mental Health, Animal Cruelty, Cyberbullying, World Hunger, Animal Poaching, and Child Labour. The second week’s teams focused on Aboriginal Children’s Rights, Smoking, Alcohol Abuse, Child Marriage, and Global Warming.
Sprout Ideas Camp participants benefitted from the insights of a variety of expert mentors from industry and academia who shared their time and expertise, including individuals from Apple, Promethean, 500px, Offshoot, OCAD University, Functional Imperative, Bellmedia, Zoku, McMaster University, Humber College, and many more.
Your support makes these great experiences for young people possible, so we want to thank you and invite you to learn more! Please follow this link to explore the prototype games campers developed in Scratch, and check out this video which summarizes one of the week-long camps!
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