Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (ICE)

The Ontario Ministry of Education and University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management have introduced a new Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) certification for students pursuing all SHSM sectors. This certification offers a viable strategy for teaching students top global competencies, identified by employers worldwide as vital to meet the needs of our ever-changing workplace.

During the ICE process, community sector partners present authentic, real-world challenges for students, who spend a day developing potential solutions through empathy and need finding, ideation and prototyping, and strategy and testing. At the end of the session, student groups pitch their ideas back to community partners.

Throughout the province, the ICE process has produced some amazing results which, in some cases, have actually been adopted by the community partners. All current grade 11 SHSM students are invited to participate in this free, resume-building opportunity.