to expand Tech Futures Challenge and programming for under-represented youth with renewed funding from Drax Foundation - % %
Summary
Over the past five years, MindFuel has worked closely with many Indigenous communities, schools and organizations, including the Dene Tha First Nation and Northland School Division in Alberta and Tsay Keh Dene Nation in British Columbia, bringing technology and science into their schools and opening opportunities for Indigenous youth to explore possibilities for learning and reaching their full potential through STEM and innovation.Id like to thank the Drax Foundation for its generous and continued support of our STEM innovation programming, says Cassy Weber, CEO, MindFuel. In our recent 10-year study, we learned that 87% of youth surveyed reported having an increased interest in innovation and entrepreneurship, due to positive attitudinal impacts they experienced through engagement in our programming. Additionally, 95% of youth reported that our programming positively influenced their post- secondary and career choices in a related STEM field.MindFuels Tech Futures Challenge (TFC) program inspires and invites youth to form teams and select sustainability challenges in their communities they are passionate about and would like to solve them through STEM and innovation. Improving STEM education is one of Draxs investment priorities, and we are excited to work with MindFuel to support the important work of helping youth to become inspired, curious, innovative, and creative regarding the world around them.Drax Groups mission is to help meet the worlds increasing demand for secure energy, sustainably, by reaching net zero by the end of 2040 across their value chain, supporting biodiversity across their sites and in their value chain by the end of 2030, and seeking to make a positive contribution to the lives and livelihoods of the colleagues, communities, and workers in their supply chain by 2030. Since 1990, we have been developing and distributing captivating, high-quality, 21st century programs that ignite a passion for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) innovation in K-12 and collegiate aged students.