Two Exciting Activities presented by TVO Kids:

Join the tvokids.com team for two exciting activities! The first activity will allow you to create your very own ebook staring Canadian superstar rodent, Tumbleweed. You will work with the tvokids creative team to write, create and record an ebook staring Tumbleweed and his cast of rodent friends.

An Introduction to the Internet of Things presented by Fab Spaces:

Through a series of fun origami projects and challenges you will  not only learn to fold some amazing 3D structures but also explore real-world advanced skills like problem solving, creativity, spatial reasoning and collaboration.  To make things more interesting we'll explore concepts like protocols, smart devices, sensors, and before you know it we'll be building a really smart origami tower.

 
The world of 3D Printing with Derek Quenneville of Site 3 coLaboratory:

Unlike paper printers at home that print in a 2 dimensional way, a 3D printer works by building layer upon layer of melted plastic (or other material) until a complete physical object is produced. Learn more about 3D printing by watching this helpful video. 

Parent Zone (coordinated by Melanie Wood)

Learn how you can support and inspire your kid's tech-learning with our "fireside chat" with technologist, new media artist, and educator, Ashley Lewis. Ashley is the Toronto Chapter Lead for Girls Learning Code, an affiliate of Ladies Learning Code and a preemptive attempt at closing the gender gap in the tech profession. She also teaches 3D printing and Arduino workshops for Maker Kids, a not-for-profit imagination oriented tech workshop space. When she's not teaching, Ashley is part of a new media studio, Aesthetec, developing innovative content for TIFF Kids' Workshop, most recently completing a project for TIFF's 50 Years of Bond event. In her spare time, Ashley pursues a more artistic avenue of technology by creating kinetic sculptures and sound based art. She has recently begun writing and illustrating her first children's book.

Also presenting will be Davide Panagia, a political and cultural theorist who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University (Canada). He is Co-Editor of the journal Theory and Event and a regular contributor to The Contemporary Condition Blog. His research analyzes the aesthetic and political dimensions of political life, looking to both contemporary and historical aspects of this area of research, with an emphasis in visual studies, media ontologies, and cultural theory. He has published two books: The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke UP, 2006) and The Political Life of Sensation (Duke UP, 2009) and Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity(forthcoming, 2013).

Hive Toronto is made possible with support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the Government of Ontario.