Innovire was back again to host one of our best workshops yet at Mindshare Workspace (inside Erin Mills Town Centre) on Saturday, February 3rd, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM!

We hosted an exciting, hands-on workshop about Circuitry, which included an interactive lesson to educate all students about breadboards and electrical science. This workshop was great for both non-experienced and experienced students from Grades 7-12. Fun challenges and possible prizes were handed out!

We had over 220 attendees from all over the GTA, 3 keynote speakers, 5 youth panellists and an organizing team of 30+ youth. With the incredible workshops, booth displays, keynotes and panel discussions that we had, we were able to dive into Augmented & Virtual Reality, Cellular Biology & Genetics, Space Exploration & Space Mining, AI & Deep Learning, Robotics, Entrepreneurship, Finding Your Way As Youth and more!

As a celebration of Earth Day, we hosted an event to provide students with the opportunity to listen to exciting keynotes from incredible industry professionals, learn about how electricity is generated from renewable sources, create solar-powered cars, and explore a working miniature electricity generator.

In this workshop, participants had the opportunity to learn more about coding as well as its application to hardware by exploring block coding and programming logic, and executing it to make games!

Back in person for the first time since 2019, the 2022 Summit was filled with fun activities and interesting guest speakers! With topics ranging from space to computers to the environment to genomics, the event included hands-on workshops and team challenges; a panel discussion from inspiring and successful youth leaders; and booths showcasing amazing, innovative and cool projects!

Attended by 25+ students, the 5-day camp gave participants the unique opportunity to extend their knowledge of the wonders of physics, chemistry, and biology! Each day had a different focus, with lessons, labs and experiments from experts and instructors.

The first-ever VIRTUAL Innovire Summit was an amazing experience with over 60 attendees, 20 volunteers and 16 guest speakers and workshop presenters.

For the Innovire Boat CAD Event, Innovire produced an exceptional crash course YouTube video on boats and the factors that affect boat design. Afterwards, we had an amazing workshop using Google Meets, where youth were able to get hands-on experience in the field of CAD and 3D printing through an online platform called OnShape. Following this, we then held a competition where youth designed 3D models of boats that were visually appealing and structurally well-designed. We had some amazing submissions and were able to inspire and excite many youth about the technology of CAD and 3D printing!

This was a successful 2-day event where over 30 students were able to get hands-on experience exploring the world of app development through a no-code phone-app design software called Thunkable. They learned and practiced implementing modern phone app design features into their projects, including styling, managing variables, creating responsive animations, and more. At the end of the workshop, they also had the chance to use their creative and innovative thinking skills and apply everything they had learned to create an app that explored an animal-related issue in the global community.

During the pandemic, we held an amazing workshop using Google Meets, where youth were able to get hands-on experience in the field of CAD and 3D printing through an online platform called TinkerCAD. Following this, we held a holiday decor CAD competition and the best designs were auctioned, helping us raise $300 for COVID-19 relief. We had some amazing submissions and were able to inspire and excite many youth about the technology of CAD and 3D printing.

With over 350 students attending, we had incredible people - both youth and adults - come in from cool, innovative companies & organizations (Google, MetaVRse, TKS, etc.) to share their journeys. Speakers talked about topics ranging from exponential technologies to innovation to inspire youth to go out into the world and create change.

The first-ever Innovire Summit had various guest speakers, a team challenge, various workshops/booths displaying cool STEM-related projects & innovations and 70 attendees. We were able to help inspire kids to go out there and create change in the world, through our various guest speakers and teacher panel discussions as well as through the display of cool innovations in our Innovate Alley like the VR maze and an FRC robot.