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By integrating FIRST Robotics into Physics curriculum, our students combine one of their co-curricular passion projects – FIRST Robotics – with their Physics labs, enhancing their learning because they’re studying what they love. The benefits of this programme extend beyond high school. When our students reach university, they are leveraging knowledge gained from various HNMCS Robotics-run after school workshops, including coding and solid modelling at the university level, into internships and job offers at companies such as Hatch and Pratt & Whitney Canada.

When you add to this the fact that HNMCS Robotics is one of only six all-girls FIRST Robotics teams in Canada, …

The need for conceptual learning is, perhaps, most needed in mathematics. To differentiate themselves from machines, students need to understand underlying mathematical principles so that they can be critical of machine output, make a wide array of applications, and understand why math problems are approached in certain ways to provide a deep appreciation of the discipline on a level not yet achieved by artificial intelligence. At HNMCS we take this approach to mathematics education seriously, exemplified by incorporating parts of Peter Liljedahl’s work out of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.