The Digital Interactive Design Development & Innovation Project
(The DIDDI Project)

A national outreach program that inspires youth between 14 and 29 years of age with the wonder and vast possibilities of science and technology, Education Through Media’s DIDDI program involves mentorship and hands-on workshops led by professionals and innovators in their fields. Youth participants get to learn about and try out Video Game Programming, 3D Animation, Game Design, Web and Mobile Application Development and Computer Engineering. Complementary, interactive and lecture-based workshops give young participants further insight into fundamental science and into the many directions their interests could take them–everything from nanotechnology to medical digital imaging to biodiversity informatics using mobile apps.

The DIDDI Challenge

A national technology challenge that motivates Canadian youth to see the wonder and potential–for their lives, and for making positive change in the lives of others–of science, technology and computer engineering.

The Dolobox Television Initiative (DTI)

The Dolobox Television Initiative is a network of youth getting our voices out in the world through citizen journalism, dramatic broadcast for television and Web, and more. With the support of successful, dynamic and mostly young mentors, youth participants, all aged 16 to 25–all considered ‘at-risk’–conceive, plan and develop projects that get youth heard.

Educate.Communicate.Inspire

A human rights education project that will engage at-risk youth across Canada, beginning with Toronto’s Priority Neighbourhoods, to become Human Rights Ambassadors using the persuasive, connective and educational power of new media. ECI program participants will acquire practical social marketing, media and communications skills that allow them to carry out professional-calibre, innovative social awareness campaigns aimed at raising human rights literacy—with an emphasis on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child—among their Canadian peers.

Education Through Media Startup Labs

A multi-faceted start-up space being developed right now in downtown Toronto, the Startup Labs will serve the needs of high-potential young entrepreneurs, and advance the technology and digital media startup ecosystem in Toronto. Our laboratory will not only be 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.