Trafalgar featured in the Globe and Mail
Trafalgar Castle School has been featured in the Globe and Mail‘s “STEM to STEAM Education” Report, showing how our school for girls is helping to bridge the gap for future women in STEM! You can read the full article HERE. Trafalgar Castle School is committed to preparing students to become leaders in STEAM careers […]
MATE Robotics success in Newfoundland
Research indicates that girls are self-selecting out of subjects like math and sciences at a young age due to a lack of confidence, making them less likely to pursue later careers in STEAM. At Trafalgar, we aim to foster the opposite trend through meaningful and deliberate learning opportunities. Beginning as early as Grade 4, students […]
Five Suggestions. One Final Ask.
“Research1 shows that boys and girls are able to achieve equally well in math and science at the high school level, yet fewer girls pursue post-secondary studies in STEM subjects, and even fewer continue on to careers in STEM. What would you do to change this?” This was a question asked of every candidate who […]
Durham Regional Science Fair Success
The winners of Trafalgar’s Grade 7 and 8 Science Fair on March 6 advanced to the Durham Regional Science Fair held at Ontario Tech University (formerly University of Ontario Institute of Technology – UOIT) on April 6. The girls represented Trafalgar well and a few students came back with some serious hardware. Grade 7 student, […]
Trafalgar attends Math Competition
Six students in Trafalgar’s Math Club headed to Pickering College on February 19 to participate in the Math Team Competition. The students made up the only all-girls’ team in the competition. So proud to see our students test their skills and knowledge while challenging themselves. Congratulations!
Elective featured in National Post
As a girls’ school, we have an even greater responsibility to help close the gender gap in STEM-related fields – science, technology, engineering and math – where women continue to be vastly underrepresented. As early pioneers of FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), adopters of Singapore Math and Science programs, and […]