Stories

Pinnguaq is proud to share our 2020/2021 Annual Report, celebrating a year of change and growth for our organization. Over the year, our team dealt with the challenges presented by the ongoing pandemic, seeking out innovative ways to continue delivering STEAM and digital skills learning, including bringing our learners into new virtual spaces.  As we … Continued

There’s a lot of concern about how artificial intelligence (AI) and automation could soon replace people in jobs like truck-driving or proofreading. But in creative fields like art, music and dance, pioneers are experimenting with AI as a tool to expand the limits of creative possibility.

When Jasper Kanes was two years old, their parents took them whale watching for the first time. As is the case for many whale enthusiasts, that first encounter sparked a life-long devotion.

The passion for motion is what powers Dan Kitchen’s latest venture. Make Stuff Move offers tools and resources for educators and makers looking to learn more about how to tinker well.

Makerspaces are designed to inspire us to bring big and small innovative concepts to life by providing access to tools, knowledge and a community of makers.

One sector wherein the design and ethics of AI can literally mean life or death every day is mining—specifically, in the use of large mining haul trucks.

With their profusion of bright colours and repeating shapes and patterns, the computer-coded creations produced by Ron Cameron’s Grade 4 and 5 students are groovy and mesmerizing.

AI is built into many online learning programs to provide teachers and students with unique educational opportunities and experiences.

What is a Lifecycle Superstar? Pinnguaq’s work is based on our Lifecycle model, and designed to engage learners at multiple stages in their personal growth and success.

As daylight shortens along the coastlines of Nunavut, Arctic Inspiration Prize laureates SmartICE, Ilitaqsiniq – Nunavut Literacy Council, and Pinnguaq Association are preparing for another season of community-based skills building.

Alyssa Amell joined Pinnguaq right out of high school in 2018, as an Administrative Assistant, as well as lending her considerable artistic talents to our Production team.

Pinnguaq’s Iqaluit Makerspace will be filled with aspiring coders and game designers this fall as we launch three new after-school workshops, starting the first week of October.

Pinnguaq invites journalists, space and moon subject experts, knowledge keepers, and artists to submit pitches for our Spring 2022 issue of Root & STEM magazine focusing on space.

Technology provides exciting new ways to share information and history, and to build connections.

Sewing and beading provide both practical and creative opportunities for cultures, over millennia, to clothe communities, engage in ceremony, as well as trade with others.

What is a Lifecycle Superstar? Pinnguaq’s work is based on our Lifecycle model, and designed to engage learners at multiple stages in their personal growth and success.

Pinnguaq Association explores why games matter in STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) in the newly-released third issue of Root and STEM Magazine, available now.

Today at Pinnguaq, we’re celebrating World Art Day. It’s a day to promote the creation, diffusion and enjoyment of art. Art plays an important role in knowledge sharing and in the promotion of cultural diversity, and is a fundamental component of STEAM, along with science, technology, engineering and math.

To find out more about the importance of incorporating video games into K–12 learning, we asked six game designers, developers and educators for their thoughts on the role video games play in 21st-century education.

In a place that is both near and far, there is a cluster of 17 quaint villages brimming with bright ideas and industrious, compassionate people. Many homes here are powered by wind, solar, geothermal and other sustainable sources.

Games are often competitive, but what if a game encouraged cohabitation and collaboration, rather than individual gain?

As the next generation of console gaming systems was rolling out to Canadians eager to experience the new age of online gaming, many people outside big cities were having issues with online connectivity.

Imagine a world where colonization never happened. Connor Alexander, a Cherokee game designer, did just that, when he invented Coyote & Crow—a tabletop role-playing game (RPG) that launched its Kickstarter fundraising campaign in March 2021.

The Nunavut Global Game Jam was registered with Global Game Jam in early January 2021 as an official jam site. From January 29 to 31, our Iqaluit Makerspace had the privilege of playing host.