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Circular Making
BRILLIANT LABS
SPEAKER SERIES 2022-2023
Designing Circular Systems with Midushi Kochhar
November 10th 1:30 pm AST
Our making for a circular economy challenge is based on the concept of a circular economy. This is when an object (or product) can be come food or the material to make something else. In a perfect circular economy world, there would be no landfills. Everything would be reused. To accomplish this we need to change the way we think and use materials. We have to start from existing materials instead of sourcing new ones, recycle the materials we have while they keeping their quality.
Trained as an industrial designer, Midushi Kochhar’s design and making methodology aims at redirecting and rebuilding symbiotic connections for circular futures. This talk will take you through the journey of how easily accessible residual materials can be brought back into our urban living systems and how we can add value to such “classed” waste resources.
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Innovative fashion
Biomaking in Classroom: Free Virtual Workshop Series for Educators. Join our free virtual workshop series introducing ways to bring Biomaking into your classrooms. Biomaking is a new concept of makerspaces in which harmless microbes like fungi, bacteria, yeast, and algae are used to design meaningful projects for a sustainable future.
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Participate in our free virtual workshop series introducing ways to try Biomaking at home. Biomaking is a new concept where harmless microbes like fungi, bacteria, yeast, and algae are used to design meaningful projects for a sustainable future.
Details here Brilliant Labs offers over 12 different virtual co-op internship positions with room for more than 70 high school students. From 3D Printer Technician, Graphic Design, Digital Marketing, Magazine/Blog/SEO Writers, Hardware Engineering, Cyber Security and more... Contact info@brilliantlabs.ca for details!
INSPIRATION MAKER: Brilliant Labs Magazine NOVEMBER 2022
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Ocean tech
Biomaking at Home: Free Virtual Workshop Series for Families.
COOP courses
What if you could design products or clothes with materials you grow from nature? This concept is a part of Innovation Fashion movement. Meaning, the search for sustainable practices, materials and culture is needed to lower CO2 emissions, chemical waste, landfills and create zero unsafe and unfair labor conditions.
Let's consider how science, observation, and innovation can be used to engineer solutions to help protect our oceans and sustainably grow our Blue Economies.
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Community of the future
Let's help students reflect on the role of sustainability and equity in their community. discover and design innovative ways to resolve important issues in their community and beyond.
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Each season we offer a more in-depth look at the innovations within our communities and around us. Success stories of our students, interesting innovation ideas, and project ideas you could use in your classroom. Nominate a Teacher for TAKE Five, a regular article, to highlight a champion teacher. Read BL Magazine here!
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More Upcoming Events Adopt a School If you are interested in having a BL team member work out of your MakerSpace on a monthly basis, reach out to info@brilliantlabs.ca and we will put you in touch with a Program Specialist in your area.
Prepping for Brilliance With our professional learning initiative for educators, Prepping For Brilliance, we would like to provide you with an easy PL during your prep. We will come to you, either physically or virtually, set up all materials required, and spend your prep time with you and any fellow colleagues at your school who are interested in using your prep to prepare for brilliance. For any general questions, feel free to reach out to natacha@brilliantlabs.ca
Monthly Coding Challenges We have great multi level monthly coding challenges available here for your students to learn code through fun activities. See here.
LMSCourses We offer free massive open online courses through our learning management system (LMS)? With 14 courses ready for you to learn at your own pace, like BioMaking and Machine Learning and more on the way, your students will love to explore, learn, and earn microaccreditations. Check out our LMS courses here.
Afterschool Programs If you are interested in hosting a After school program in your community, reach out to info@brilliantlabs.ca
Project Funding Brilliant Projects aim to support teachers and organizations working with children by providing a kick start for cross-curricular problem based Learning tied to STEAM curricular outcomes and to the sustainable development goals. These projects aim to promote the use of technology, coding, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship into learning for K-12 students. For more information click here
Brilliant Labs is now a charity!
Brilliant Labs Maker Spaces
We can provide funding and guidance to help you develop a class or school lab or makerspace. With over 300 school-based labs currently supported we are happy to share our experiences and best practices. You can access our How to Get Started Lab guide here.
Hour of Code
Hour of code is an international event aiming to help students learn code. We encourage you to register your class for this event. Hour of Code takes place the week of December 5th to 11th. This year's theme is Learn Computer Science. Change the World.
Inspiration Maker This year Brilliant Labs is looking for those teachers who inspire others to be their best and who are taking chances to try new things to educate students. We're pleased to share this New Brunswick's "Inspiration Maker!" WHO: JACOB LINGLEY WHERE: GEORGE STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL , FREDERICTON TWITTER: @JMRLINGLEY After being with Brilliant Labs for seven years, our very own Jacob Lingley is back in the classroom. Many of us have heard Jacob share his thoughts on the role maker-centred learning can have on education. It is not surprising that on our first visit to his classroom, he has essentially tried to implement maker culture across every surface. He was invited to create his own classroom where there was no furniture or whiteboards. What a time to bring together a collection of ideas, providing students with a space for making. Tables have been custom sized and made with readily available EMT conduit. The dryerase board is 20 feet long, why not use the belt 3D printer to make a 20 foot long marker ledge? Now the only thing to do is check in with Jacob as he invites his 200 students to make something brilliant.
Project Highlight SUMMER CAMP 2022
Support youth education and empowerment today! NOVEMBER 2022
Our summer mentors were hard at work creating fun projects for students. Here is Josh and Jacob’s project. The idea behind this activity was to build an interactive coding game that uses Scratch programming, Makey Makey controllers, 3D printing and circuits. It is appropriate for participants K+, and they used it in a booth-style 10TH presentation at the Public Library’s end of the year party. To make 10AM this project with your student visit
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