Hope for Youth Project - Smrt Scholarship Program
AdultsCharityEducationIn 2012 Smrt and the Canadian College of English Language initiated a scholarship program for 50 students who have lost parents, homes, and livelihoods as a result of the tsunami in Japan. The scholarship was for free tuition (courtesy of CCEL) and free accommodation for up to 3 months.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativity...With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
Iryna speaks about her experience taking Smrt IELTS in Vancouver.
AdultsEducationLanguageIryna took two months of Smrt IELTS preparation at the Canadian College of English Language. Many students who are in the last one or two years of their secondary school take an IELTS course to prepare for entrance into university.
You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral
AdultsEducationScience...The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.
Do Your Best
KidsEducationEnvironment...How can we save the planet? Listen to this song and sing along.
There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth
AdultsEducationScience...We’ve found a new planet, home to octillions of the most extreme beings living in the most absurd and deadly hellscape. In absolute darkness, crushed by the weight of mountains, starved of oxygen, cooked alive, bathed in acid, salt or radiation.
MP Proposes Smartphone Ban For Schools
YouthEducationTechnology...The official proposal, called a private members' bill, also recommends that social media platforms change the way they work for children.