Presenters are listed in alphabetical order.
Innovation through Collaboration: A New Approach for Teaching 21st Century Competencies in the Classroom (and beyond)
In the Spring of 2018, the University of Victoria’s Department of Computer Science launched an ambitious new pilot project across southern Vancouver Island, a community-led, industry-supported talent development program, aimed at connecting students in secondary and post-secondary institutions with career opportunities in the technology sector of British Columbia. Now in its third year, this presentation serves as a retrospective on lessons learned through the iterative development of the HighTechU initiative, with a focus on sharing how other institutions might replicate the mentorship-focussed, experiential, problem-based learning model to better support the development of 21st Century Competencies in their students.