Root and STEM

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.

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.

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.

I believe that the future of artificial intelligence (AI) will have a face—or, more accurately, many faces.

Virtual teaching comes with many challenges. As is clear to anyone who has watched teachers and young kids try to adapt to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not easy to hold the attention of a group through the small window of a flat screen.

The MakerSpace at the college’s Ottawa campus is a place where students, faculty members, researchers and the community at large can explore, tinker and invent.

In 2017, Kids Help Phone (KHP), a free resource that provides mental health support and counselling via telephone or the Internet, noticed that Indigenous youth were using the service in relatively small numbers.

While fast, reliable access to prosthetic devices can be difficult to obtain in communities outside urban centres, the process becomes much easier when you have a 3D printer close at hand.

Many of us would like to be more knowledgeable about the programs and algorithms that power our lives. But where to start?

Mac Pavia began working with Pinnguaq as a student intern at the Makerspace in Iqaluit, Nunavut, running after-school programmes for youth and coordinating summer camps.

The phone calls started about six years ago. Worried parents or caregivers would reach out to Ember Schincariol and Karlee Gutmann, mental health professionals in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Aaron Labbe was in his second year of studies at SUNY Fredonia’s School of Music when he suffered a mental breakdown so bad it caused a heart arrhythmia. He was rushed to hospital, where he spent three days in intensive care and nearly a week in the cardiac unit.

As the saying goes, the best camera is the one that’s with you. When you have your camera ready at all times, you
are able to capture that perfect photo moment more often.

The scientific method comes with a certain vocabulary. For example, it prioritizes objectivity, research, impartiality and rationality.

Learn about beading, technology, and the art of Barry Ace.

In 2010, Labrador endured what became known as the “Year of No Winter,” making travel over ice extra dangerous. Learn how a team of scientists and Inuit collaborated on a project to monitor ice safety in a changing climate.

A group of Inuvialuit youth in Canada’s High Arctic have a message for climate change deniers across the world: “It’s happening to us!”

Can growing insects help us feed a changing planet? New ways to think about farming are powering Third Millennium Farms’ urban cricket operation.

Siku is the Inuktitut word for “sea ice.” It’s also the name of a new app: an Inuit-led social media project designed to help users navigate and share knowledge about a northern landscape in flux.