Vital Signs
We were invited to participate in the Hamilton Community Foundation’s Vital Signs segment, to talk about Hamilton Code Clubs and why it is important to our future workforce. In this video, we discuss the focus of our program and how it supports the ABACUS core pillars – academic upskilling, mentoring, goal setting, and incentives.
Advancing Access to Post-Secondary Education
This is the third piece in a year-long series about ABACUS; the new collaborative initiative of the Hamilton Community Foundation and The Fairmount Foundation. ABACUS focuses on children in Grades 6, 7, and 8, aiming to identify and remove barriers to high school graduation and post-secondary access, including the trades and apprenticeships. The foundation works with Hamilton agencies to deliver programs that support the ABACUS core pillars – academic upskilling, mentoring, goal setting, and incentives – and to expand their reach, collaboration, and integration to better serve the needs of students in these critical middle-school years.
Hamilton Catholic schools offer summer coding for kids
When educational summer programming means you’re programming a ghost to shoot lightning at bats descending from the sky, you might be onto something.
“My theme was kind of Halloween even though it’s not Halloween yet,” said nine-year-old Melissa Da Silva, proudly explaining her game.
But for this summer program, realism doesn’t matter. The idea behind Hamilton Code Club — part of the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic school board’s summer learning program for the first time — is all about sneaking in bits of learning while allowing the imagination of Grade 4 to 6 students run wild with gaming creations featuring floating unicorns, alien attacks, and even lightning-shooting ghosts.