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Saturday, July 13, 2019

25 Years Later

In the mid 90s, around the time the Windows 95 operating system hit the market, high school student Rohit Saxena stood face to face with Bill Gates and handed him a paper copy of his resume. Gates was in Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and made a special trip to Carleton... More

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Venturing Forward

A lot of learning can take place over a quarter-century. Just ask the more than 30,000 Ottawa-area youths who have taken part in tech-based education programs and summer camps with Carleton’s Virtual Ventures (VV) over the past 25 years.... More

Monday, November 12, 2018

Boosting Digital Literacy – Boys and Girls Club program in partnership with Shopify

Not all youth in Ottawa have the same access to technology, but an exciting collaborative venture between three city institutions has set out to change that. In the summer of 2017, Christine Riddell, director of Carleton’s Virtual Ventures summer camps and programs, met with Brittney Oberfeld, outreach producer at Shopify, to develop a pilot... More

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Catherine McKenna visits Virtual Ventures

Campers in Carleton University’s Virtual Ventures program recently had a surprise visitor – Catherine McKenna, minister of Environment and Climate Change and Ottawa Centre MP. Read the full article... More

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

VV Receives CanCode Funding

Carleton University’s Virtual Ventures was awarded $90,000 as a network member of Actua to scale up hands-on coding and digital skills programs for youth in the Ottawa area.   Read the full article... More

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Summer Camp Registration

Registration opens Thurs. March 1 at 12:00pm (noon). Click here to see the summer camps... More

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Science Minister Kristy Duncan visits VV

Federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan visited campers at Carleton University’s Virtual Ventures on Monday to highlight the importance of offering future career options to children. View the full... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Programming workshop

Join us on Mar 30 for a FREE programming workshop as part of National Engineering Month. For more information and to register, visit the workshop event... More

Saturday, February 27, 2016

National Engineering Month

Join us on Mar 7 for FREE activities to celebrate National Engineering Month. For more information and to register, visit the NEM event... More

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Summer Camp Registration

Registration for summer camps open on March 1st at noon. For more information visit summer camps... More

Monday, December 21, 2015

Ottawa Robotics Competition

Sign up to join team Virtual Ventures compete at the 2016 IEEE ORC competition. We will be hosting try-outs on Wednesday, Jan 20, 2016. Visit this page for more... More

Friday, December 18, 2015

Registration is open for Winter clubs

Registration is open for Winter clubs. For schedule and registration information,... More

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