Digital Technology and Innovations in the Changing World – ICD2O (Technovation)
ICD2O is offered by the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Engineering Secondary School in collaboration with Technovation 2024, the world’s largest global tech entrepreneurship competition for girls. Following the Technovation Ottawa schedule, enrolled students in the ICD20 course receive a 1.0 credit towards their Ontario Secondary School Diploma.
The ICD20 course is an online course, delivered in English by a fully bilingual female teacher with over 10 years of classroom expertise. Students meet every Monday evening for an online synchronous session and every Wednesday evening in person at Carleton University for the Technovation workshops. One Saturday is set aside for a few hours at the end of May for a ‘’Pitch Celebration’. Throughout the course, the ICD20 teacher offers one-on-one support to students in both French and English.
During this course the girls develop cutting-edge digital technology and computer programming skills that will support them in contributing to and leading the global economic, scientific and societal innovations of tomorrow. The girls learn and apply coding concepts and skills to build hands-on projects, investigate artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other emerging digital technologies that connect to a wide range of fields and careers.
Students are accepted to the full-credit course on a first come first serve basis.
Term Dates: January 8 – May 27, 2024
Delivery Method: Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6-8pm. Mondays are online synchronous lessons. Wednesdays are in person at Carleton University. One Saturday is set aside towards the end of the course for a ”Pitch Celebration”! See the full dates and locations in the schedule above.
Location: Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Cost: Free
Registration
Students must first register for Technovation 2024. Once you have submitted your forms you may register for the full-credit course.
Required documentation:
Each student enrolled for the half-credit course must e-mail Engineering.SecondarySchool@uOttawa.ca with:
- A list of students on your team
- Proof of your Technovation 2024 registration
- Your student or personal e-mail address
- Your legal status in Canada (Ex. Canadian citizen, permanent resident, temporary resident, or visitor)
- Proof of age (Copy of birth certificate)
- Proof of grade and school (Copy of recent report card)
- For grade 8 students exceptionally: a completed letter signed by your parent/guardian and current principal, approving your enrolment in a reach ahead course.
School policies and procedures:
Refer to our School course calendar for all policies and procedures.
Note: Following a 2021 inspection, the Faculty of Engineering Secondary School received credit-granting authority from the Ministry of Education. The school has been assigned a BSID number by the Ministry and is listed as a private school on the Ministry website.