Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), can be found in every aspect of our day to day lives. The skills taught and learned in STEM programs can help youth be better equipped for the jobs of tomorrow. STEM programs teach a variety of skills that can be applied to every discipline or occupation and not just traditional careers. 

What are WiTT STEM Kits?

A curriculum kit looks at how ideas concepts and ideas in science, engineering, math, and technology work together to help students engage with STEM based curriculum and virtualizations in small achievable tasks.These kits are designed in concert with Women in Technology &Trades students at Mohawk College to ensure that the kits are interesting and appealing to a broad range of students.

Each kit provides guidance on the materials needed, suggested activities, and advice for both faculty and students on what the kit will help students to learn, and how to start using the kit. Where possible, curriculum targets for appropriate age groups and skill levels will be identified for each kit, which can be used to demonstrate, guide project work, or enable independent study for age appropriate levels.

The arts have often been overlooked, or seen as trivial, yet they play such an important role in our life. Whether you want to explore it as a career (and there are lots of careers in the arts), are looking for a way to express yourself, or see it as a way to help relieve stress, don’t overlook the arts.

CREATIVE WRITING

The Hamilton Public Library offers online writing inspiration. All you need is a library card.

Power of the Pen Creative Writing Contest Youth between the ages of 12-18 can submit poetry or short fiction for a chance to win prizes.

Writers-in-Residence is a mentoring program for aspiring writers. The 2023-24 Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence is Jaclyn Desforges.

Jaclyn is the author of Danger Flower and Why Are You So Quiet? She is the winner of the 2022 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry, 2022 City of Hamilton Creator Award, 2020 Hamilton Emerging Artist Award for Writing, two 2019 Short Works Prizes and the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and lives in Hamilton with her partner and daughter. You can book a one-on-one session here.

Jaclyn also hosts a writing circle, a hands-on workshop involving creative activities, writing prompts, and optional sharing. The next writing circle on October 19 is full, but you can join the waitlist here.

MUSIC

• Wave Recording Studio – Youth Unlimited Waterdown

ART

• Creative Insight Pottery
• Dundas Valley School of Art
• The Art Gallery of Hamilton
• Art Gallery of Burlington
• Hamilton Arts Council
• Arts for All

DANCE

• Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts

With roughly 6500 languages spoken across the world, it is never a bad idea to learn the basics of another one. Whether you plan on travelling or working internationally or in a diverse workplace knowing a second language can be a great asset.