About Us

Who are we?

We are a small club consisting of 15- 30 members located in Gatineau. We meet up weekly on Saturday from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. We are a volunteer led organization that strives to share STEM with children and youth from underrepresented groups in tech.

2nd Place IEEE ORC Robotics Moon Rover Challenge 2023 🏆

Classes

Next-Up

The ¨Next-UP¨ group consists of a variety of young kids from grades 1-4 who are curious and interested about technology and its uses. They participate in experiments to learn the basic tenants of exploration and design. These kids have focused on a variety of projects and platforms from Codepen to Scratch. Their Teacher and Supervisor is Ms.Okakwu.

TECHSMART

The "Techsmart" group consists of kids from grades 5- 8 who love to use their cognitive skills to develop fun projects. In the past, Techsmart have used Lego Mindstorms to create Lego-based robots and create 3D designs from Tinkercad. They are lead by their teacher, Mr.Oginni.

Virtual Champions

The Virtual Champions are a group of enthusiastic tweens and teens from grades 9 to 12 who are eager to achieve their goals and dreams in the realm of technology. In the past, this group has focused on creating line-following robots using Arduino and learning how to code using Python. This group is lead by Uncle Sam

Past Projects

Our Teachers

Esther Raji

Software Engineering graduate from the University of Ottawa that specializes in web technologies and has a passion to spread an interest in technology.

Seun Oginni

Passionate Customer Success Manager at IBM specializing merging my technical background with business.

Priscilla Okakwu

Technology Consultant with a Masters in E-Business Technologies from the University of Ottawa who is most interested in emerging technologies and how they impact the business environment.