Are you someone who is skeptical about video games? Do you believe that they are bad for our youth? You’re not alone. This debate over whether or not games negatively affect us has been going on for years, however the focus should be on what games you are playing. There is great evidence that there… Read More The Untold Truth About Video Games
Think your kids are too young to learn to code? Think again. Coding (also called programming or developing) is telling a computer, app, phone or website what you want it to do. Some educators and experts are calling it the ‘new literacy’—a subject so important that every child needs to know the basics to excel in… Read More Kids Can Code. Here’s Why They Should Start!
There are many exciting discoveries happening at the University of Waterloo. Waterloo is known as Canada’s most innovative universities, greatly due to the brilliant ideas their community members bring to reality. The combination of curiosity and rigorous inquiry leads to the makings of the next greatest invention or furthering the knowledge of the way things… Read More How Waterloo is Saving the World with Robotics
Breakthrough technology trends affect the way the year will be unfold. They will accelerate and transform many industries at a rapid pace which will shape the future and will be impact business owners and investors alike. Here are some technologies that are worth to observe closely in 2019. 1. Machine learning will advance artificial intelligence (AI)… Read More Top 5 Tech Trends to look out for in 2019
The Stigma. It is no surprise that names such as Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr are rarely mentioned. In a society in which women are seen as the other, history is told through the lenses of men, and we are bounded to see the world as theirs. Did you know that the first programmer in the… Read More Girls in Technology
Think back to the time you first learned that space exists, an entire universe outside of our home Earth. To the first time you heard that man stepped foot on the moon for the first time in 1969. Fast forward to today, the fascination and wonders of space never cease. There is so much yet… Read More Trudeau announced that Canada is going to the moon!
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