“Immigrating to Canada as a child I had this idea of what success looked like, and I pictured someone in a suit,” Saeid says. “I went into the hardest programs to get into, and ended up working in consulting and investment banking.”

Kristy is in her final year of computer science at the University of Waterloo (UW).

For most of Kuba’s life, he believed that his future was in mathematics. The grand scheme was to pursue a career in mathematics by earning a bachelor’s, a master’s, do a few internships, then eventually go for the big Ph.D. Well, plans sort of changed. Kuba explained that this happened…

Marian is driven by curiosity. When she was 5–6 years old, it was first sparked by the plumbers and electricians that came to repair her home. Marian would follow them around the house and constantly ask them questions to figure out how things worked. One time there was a leak…

John was born in Jamaica in 1959, where he was raised by his aunt until he reunited with his parents at age 5 in Essex, England. When John turned 12, the family relocated to Brooklyn, New York where school became a major focal point for him and his brother. He…

Born in 1924, Evelyn was a Great Depression baby raised and supported by her mother and aunt. When Evelyn attended Smith College in 1941, she wanted to be a French teacher at first but she quickly switched to mathematics because it was a subject she understood and excelled in. This…

A broken education system requires the most attention from all the things wrong with our society, but unfortunately, it is disregarded and ignored the most. We do not understand the detrimental consequences of a broken education system, but it harms our children from the core. …

Is Your Student too Overwhelmed to Actually Learn? Teachers assign homework and other school activities to help students learn and further understand the lecture. These activities aim to teach them to manage their time, become more organized, and look beyond the classroom’s four corners. …

There are many reasons that coding could be right for you, and these depend largely on how you see yourself as a person. Are you creative? A problem solver? A gifted kid with an attitude? Whatever type of person you are, coding could be for you. So, we’ve compiled a…