Education Through Media

DIDDI Challenge

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:54:16 +0000

DIDDI Challenge

Game Design Challenges, The DIDDI Science Fair, Hack-a-Thons, Sci-Fi Writing and Robotics Challenges are just a few of the DIDDI Challenges, brought to you by Education Through Media.

Education Through Media Startup Labs

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:38:22 +0000

Education Through Media Startup Labs

Toronto is on the cusp of a new era of dramatic growth in the technology startup sector. Over the past two decades the technology enabling the creation of online products has become cheaper and more effective, democratizing entrepreneurship. Toronto is becoming a hub for ideas and for utilizing technology to disrupt industry and culture.

Despite this shift, starting a successful business is still extraordinarily difficult, suffering from a steep learning curve. Thus, we are crafting a community to provide the necessary support, infrastructure, and educational framework for aspiring entrepreneurs to start new ventures.

We’re doing this by creating a multi-faceted startup space to serve the needs of high-potential young entrepreneurs and advance the startup ecosystem in Toronto. Our laboratory will not only have a place in which to collaborate, but also take advantage of a new kind of learning-by-doing. Through our curriculum, entrepreneurs will receive a pragmatic and multi-disciplinary education at the intersection of design, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Education Through Media Startup Labs will have a special focus on new immigrants, ethno-cultural youth and young women.

The Digital Interactive Design Development & Innovation Project (DIDDI)

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:11:16 +0000

A national information and communications technology based outreach program for youth aged 14-29. DIDDI develops workshops to introduce youth to Video Game Programming, 3D Animation, Game Design, Web and Mobile Application Development and Computer Engineering.

Click here to learn more

Dolobox Television Initiative (DTI)

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:16:29 +0000

DTI is six-month mentor-based program through which a group of 35 at-risk youth, aged 16 to 25, who have an affinity to the media arts, will conceive, plan and develop media projects and a dramatic television series that expose real life issues facing at-risk youth in Toronto. Projects are designed to promote a positive lifestyle and social environment while presenting alternatives to violence, drugs, crime and other negative lifestyles. From a practical standpoint, DTI presents a unique opportunity to be creative, expressive and entrepreneurial through diverse facets of the performing arts with the guidance of professional mentors from the media industry. It gives youth participants a chance to be in front of the camera through acting and interviewing, or behind the scenes by producing, directing, filming and editing.

Education Through Media

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:47:02 +0000

Education Through Media (ETM) was established in 2005 as an innovative youth-led charitable organization aiming to address the rising issues faced by ethno-cultural and/or at-risk youth including; homelessness, prejudice, racism, substance abuse, crime and violence. Utilizing the powerful tools of art and technology, ETM provides an opportunity for personal development through education and employment assistance in a structured setting that promotes self-esteem, creativity and team building among participants.