Explore Your Future is a series of FREE events to help Waterloo Region youth learn about some career options. While geared towards the early stage research needs of grade 7 to 10 students, it is open to any youth and family that are interested .
Note: This event takes place over Zoom. A link will be sent out to registered attendees about 5:30 p.m. on the day of the event.
Inspiring Creativity
Do you see a problem? It could be a big one or a small one.
BEP Waterloo Region can help you apply your creativity towards solving it. You can ask for a microgrant of up to $1000 from our brand new Youth Creativity Fund. All Waterloo Region youth in grades 5 to 12 are eligible.
To help you get started, we have assembled a panel of youth who have identified a problem and a creative way of solving it. They will share their stories and answer your questions.
We hope that by sharing their experiences that our panel will inspire you to develop an idea for a project and ask the Youth Creativity Fund for money to help you out.
OUR PANEL
Ellen Brisley and Leya Oommen, founders of Aiuto Solutions which is a hub that connects people in need with people who want to give
Ellen and Leya are high school students who created an app that connects charities and donors. We used this app to provide over 200 gifts to seniors in nursing homes during COVID-19. We are now offering a mentorship program that allows students in Grades 7-12 to do their own initiative on our app!
Syed Hashmi, working on a personal project
Currently in grade 12 at St. Benedict's, Syed asked the Youth Creative Fund for a microgrant to work on a garden that, based on readings from sensors and inputs, automatically waters a garden for me. He wanted to work on this project because his grandparents love their backyard but, due to their old age, often strain their bodies maintaining it. He wanted to make something that would allow them to enjoy a beautiful backyard without having to worry about watering it every day.
Neil is a 2022 graduate of Waterloo Collegiate Institute now studying biomedical technology at the University of British Columbia. He started his research into the detection and treatment of heart attacks in 2019 after a family member passed away from a heart attack. Mitra Biotechnologies is a medical device startup company developing rapid point-of-care diagnostics for various disease conditions. Currently, Mitra Biotechnologies is focusing on cardiac diagnostics for interventional cardiology use cases.
Olamide is in Grade 12 and goes to St. Mary;s High School. Eyshah is in Grade 11 and goes to Galt Collegiate Institute. They noticed how difficult it is for newcomers to acclimate themselves to Canadian society. So they created a program, Invitation to Belonging, in collaboration with Volunteer Waterloo Region to provide newcomers with the resources and skills needed to successfully integrate themselves into Canadian society. Then newcomers would not feel alienated or feel the need to assimilate.
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