Name: Civic Tech Toronto hacknight #114 with Brookfield & MAESD
Start: 2017-10-17T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-10-17T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Lighthouse Labs

Presenter: Brookfield + Ontario's Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development

Presenting the Brookfield + MAESD Design Challenge

MAESD is launched the Student Pathways Challenge! This is a 6-week competition that encourages participants to form teams or work independently to develop digital solutions that answer the question: How might we help high school students gain a better understanding of available employment opportunities and the pathways to get there by means of a digital tool or resource?
The challenge website is provided below *as well as an eventbrite link to the Launch Event happening at HackerYou October 19th*
Launch Event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-student-pathways-challenge-launch-tickets-38411372449

Website: https://studentpathwayschallenge.ca

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Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

Venue is not fully accessible. There is an elevator from the second floor (open the door to your right on the landing). There are stairs from the street into building and then up to the second floor.

For more info, visit civictech.ca. Here's our Code of Conduct: civictech.ca/about-us

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