innovation skills from beyond the classroom.
Skill Sessions
Skill Sessions bring in specialized speakers for short, focused sessions that build students' entrepreneurship, innovation, and career-readiness skills. The workshops address specific gaps in students' knowledge through sessions led by real industry professionals, helping them build the 21st-century skills needed to enter the workforce.
This program welcomes students from any discipline, in any year of post-secondary studies in Nova Scotia.
Upcoming Sessions
From Zero to Superhero - An AI powered Python Series -
Session 1: Getting Started with Python
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
The basics, starting with opening and setting up your first coding environment.
Session 2: Building Interactive Research Applications and Data Analytics with AI
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
In this hands-on demonstration, we'll use AI coding agents (such as Claude Code and Codex) to transform a real scientific dataset into an interactive web application, explore and visualize the results, and generate a research report. Along the way, we'll learn how to guide AI agents, evaluate their code, and verify their outputs.
Session 3: Beyond Prompting — Building with AI Coding Agents
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Coding alongside AI, for those who already know the basics
