Engineering is for everyone!
Engineering is about making the world a better place. With an ever-growing need for engineers, Venture Academy wants to help inform all students of the possibilities and opportunities they may have as a professional engineer.
For Grades K to 12
Venture Academy offers fun and engaging hands-on programs for students of all ages with an interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
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It's never too early for some STEM based fun!
This program is geared to campers entering Senior Kindergarten and is designed as a discovery based fun and engaging introduction to science and engineering. Discover buoyancy, biodiversity, dinosaurs and more!
Explore our digital world!- Robots, circuits, programming and more-
The Engineering Technology stream is available to students entering grades 1-7 and will include projects from many streams of engineering to give students a sampling of real-world technology. This stream focuses on Mechanical, Mechatronics, Computer, Automation, Automotive and Electrical Engineering.
Apply all your favorite kinds of science to your design projects!
Build structures, bio-devices,grow plants, explore chemistry dissections and more- The Engineering Science stream is available to students entering grades 1-7 and will include projects from multiple engineering science areas with a strong focus on the building blocks of Chemistry, Physics, and Biology
Everyone can code!
Programming with Robots, Python, Minecraft and more- The Codemakers stream is available to students entering grades 3-7 and offers them an opportunity to experience the amazing world of computer science through fun, interactive programming activities. To support their programming interests, campers will receive in-depth instruction into Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Venture Academy 2019
McMaster One of the World's Top 75 Universities
McMaster one of the world’s Top 75 universities
For the first time since 2012, McMaster is ranked among the top 75 universities in the world.
The university is ranked 72 in the internationally respected 2020 Times Higher Education rankings released today in Switzerland, advancing five spots over last year and one of only four Canadian universities in the world’s top 75. It’s the first time McMaster has cracked the top 75 since the change in rankings methodology in the early part of this decade.
The world ranking success is just the latest in a steady cadence of global recognition for McMaster.
Earlier this year, Times Higher Education ranked McMaster as second in the world for its impact at home and globally.
In 2018, THE awarded the university its Global Teaching Excellence Award.