By Sam Laskaris Writer Whenever he gets a chance Joel Gamache loves to hype up the advantages of STEM learning. Gamache is the senior manager of national Indigenous youth in STEM programs for Actua, the country’s largest learning organization for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. For the fourth straight year Gamache and his Actua colleagues held a four-day Indigenous land-based learning camp. The August camp, held in Akwesasne, Ont., was aimed at both Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators. A camp goal is to have camp participants incorporate portions of what they learned at the sessions into their own school curriculums. Gamache, a former educator himself who now enjoys instructing teachers about land-based learning, said the majority of the participants at the Akwesasne camp were non-Indigenous. “But we do have Indigenous educators…
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