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A group of tech tinkerers in Regina has claimed a top education prize after winning the U.S.-based Follett Challenge.
The city’s Catholic school division won the $60,000 first-place prize this week after earning a semifinalist nod in the competition in March.
The division’s tinker tubs project netted the win. Initiated in part by division co-ordinator Sherry Chase, the project gives students several different hands-on learning projects to use, create and reuse technology.
“It’s pretty exciting knowing that all the hard work that had gone into it paid off,” Chase said Thursday. “What this says is that what we’re doing here in Saskatchewan, in Regina and Regina Catholic stacks up internationally. It’s a pretty huge honour for us.”
In addition to a celebration party and a presentation from U.S.-based author Kwame Alexander, the school division earned $60,000 worth of Follett products and services.
With that, Chase said the division plans to add onto its eight tinker tub kits. It also hopes to install its popular Lego walls into more schools across the city.
This is the first time in the seven-year history of the award that a school outside of the U.S. has won.
Follett is a school supply company based out of Illinois that runs the annual challenge, which is open to schools in the U.S., Canada and Australia.