Participants
High Schools
In its fourth year, fourteen Toronto-area high schools are participating in the Global Ideas Institute. All that's needed is a principal or teacher who is willing to get involved and organize a group of students from their school to take part. Both public and private schools are represented. The students are in grades eleven and twelve. In 2013-14, the participating high schools are:
Bayview Glen
The Bishop Strachan School
Bloor Collegiate Institute
Branksome Hall
Havergal College
Lawrence Park
North Toronto Collegiate Institute
Northview Heights
Pickering College
St. Clement’s School
Thornlea Secondary School
University of Toronto Schools
Upper Canada College
The York School
Mentors
One of the benefits of the GII is that it empowers university students to take a leadership role in mentoring high school students through their examination of a complex research problem. Undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines, including Asia-Pacific Studies, Political Science, Economics, International Relations, Public Policy, Engineering, and Fine Arts take part. They work with the high school students and teach them how to think critically at a university level. In 2013-14, the following are students serving as mentors:
Anika Amritanand - Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences
Camille Beaudoin - International Relations/History/ Spanish
Nicole Betel - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Dionne Boahene - Economics/International Relations
Linda Chu - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Alexandra Fitzgerald - Rotman School of Management
Gordon Grisé - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Stephanie Lau - Psychology
Natasha Leclerc - Archaeology/Aboriginal Studies
Jennifer Lee - Rotman School of Management
Lauren Leedale - International Relations/Economics
Celine Liu - Economics/International Relations
Iain McCauley - Master of Global Affairs
Richard Park - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Alesha Porisky - Political Science
Kapil Prasannaa - Rotman School of Management
Nazima Qureshi - Master of Public Health
Aditya Rau - Political Science
Sarah Regli - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Brittany Scarfo - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Krista Singh - Master of Applied Science
Joshua Tan – Master of Public Policy/Collaborative Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Dorina Verli - Political Theory
Andrew Wells - Political Science
Juliana Yi - Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Expert Speakers
In the lead-up to the symposium, students attend lectures by prominent thinkers with experience working on a relevant global problem. These talks give students the opportunity to learn from and ask questions to leading experts. Students are able to gain valuable insight into real-life approaches to global problem-solving that directly influences how they approach their own project.
2013-14 Expert Speaker Series
November 12, 2013
Redesigning the Stove
Yu Ling Cheng
Director of the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN), Professor of Chemical Engineering
December 4, 2013
Operating Effective Social Enterprises
Norm Tasevski
Co-Founder and Partner at Purpose Capital, Instructor, Social Entrepreneurship
January 8, 2014
Child Nutrition
Stanley Zlotkin
Chief of Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Paediatrics
January 22, 2014
Integrative Thinking
Ellie Avishai
Director of the Integrative Thinking Initiative at the Rotman School of Management
February 11, 2014
Poverty and the State
Joseph Wong
Halbert Professor of Political Science, Canada Research Chair in Health and Development, Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs
March 4, 2014
Nudging and Encouraging Behavioral Change
Dilip Soman
Professor in Communication Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, Director of the India Innovation Institute at Rotman and the Munk School of Global Affairs
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