Alum helps Waterloo ignite children's interest in STEM

Hebron Gebre-Mariam (BASc ’07, mechanical engineering), an educator with the Waterloo Region District School Board, helped launch Waterloo’s Engineering Outreach program, Kids on Campus, in 2022.

The program provides on-campus STEM activities to 8,000 grade four students each school year.

Go to Igniting curiosity and interest in STEM for the full story to read about Gebre-Mariam's inspiration for the program and why early exposure to higher education subjects and environments is important for children’s development and by extension, society at large.