2026 SFU-Cmolik Grant Finalists
$25,000 Grant Finalists
- Burnsview Secondary School
SD37 – Delta
Project: Level Up AI: A Gamified Literacy Resource for K-12 Learners
By developing a district-wide, gamified AI literacy resource, students will have the opportunity to understand AI as both a concept and tool. Topics such as bias and ethics, critical thinking, data literacy, and responsible usage will be taught through interactive, game-based learning experiences. - Henry Grube Education Centre
SD73 - Kamloops-Thompson
Project: Storytelling in Motion: Secwepemc Narratives through Robotics
This project integrates local Secwepemc oral histories, art, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing into K-7 learning through interactive story mats and a school-wide robotics tournament. Using age-appropriate robotics platforms, students engage in cross-curricular, story-driven challenges that build computational thinking, digital literacy, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while using technology as a tool for cultural preservation and connection to place, history, and culture.
$10,000 Grant Finalists
- Mission Hill Elementary School
SD22 – Vernon
Project: Curating Curiosity + Creativity
Hands-on classroom technology bundles, including digital microscopes, microphones, and ChompSaws will be incorporated into everyday classroom activities. These bundles will support student exploration, experiential learning, and cross-curricular learning opportunities. - Abbotsford Traditional School
SD34 – Abbotsford
Project: Recipe Story Projects: Shared History and Traditions through Food
Through photos and video, students will record familial and community recipes and food stories, while learning skills in editing and storytelling. These recipes and stories will be shared to foster connections between the students, food, culture, and tradition. - Shortreed Elementary School
SD35 - Langley
Project: Amplifying Stories through Student Leadership
This project will hold structured literacy sessions in which students will create multimodal texts using narration, visuals, and written language, as well as take on roles as Digital Literacy Leaders. Through doing so, students will build on their interests and further develop their literacy skills. /li> - École Riverdale Elementary School
SD36 – Surrey
Project: The Riverdale Ravens Roost: A Place to Land, Create, and Belong
The Riverdale Ravens’ Roost will establish a library-based makerspace designed to support hands-on learning for students. Students will have the opportunity to engage with tools for coding, designing, interactive storytelling, and mechanical logic. "Raven Kits", portable resource bins, will also be created allowing for maker-learning to transition between the library and individual classrooms. - Second Street Community School
SD41 – Burnaby
Project: Voices of the Land – A Digital Soundscape
Using QR code technology and mobile-accessible platforms, students will design and produce location-based learning stations featuring original audio content that includes stories, interviews, and multimedia soundscapes. Structured workshops will engage students in the full production process, helping to develop their digital literacy, media production, and design thinking skills. - West Vancouver Elementary Schools
SD45 – West Vancouver
Project: Building Literacy through AI-Enhanced Informational Graphic Novels
Through structured professional collaboration and the strategic use of AI, digital informational graphic novels will be created and shared amongst elementary students of the school district. These novels will be multi-modal in nature, serving to connect students in a meaningful and engaging way to text, and assisting with building vocabulary development, dual coding, and comprehension. - Saanich Middle Schools
SD63 – Saanich
Project: Design for Place: 3D Printing and Coast Salish-Inspired Design in Middle School ADST
This project will introduce a shared, curriculum-embedded 3D printing and digital design learning model across middle schools of the Saanich School District. Students will use CAD software and 3D printers to design and prototype objects inspired by Coast Salish principles of form, repetition, balance, and relationships to the land. - Princess Maragaret Secondary School
SD67 – Okanagan Skaha
Project: Unmanned Aerial (UAV) Course
Students will engage with drone technology as they work to design, build, programme, and safely operate drones. Through this project, students will also study Canadian Aviation Regulations and work towards obtaining Basic Drone Pilot Certificates. This project will support student collaboration and long-term engagement in STEM. - Cowichan Valley Secondary Schools
SD79 – Cowichan Valley
Project: High-Tech Framework for Technology Career Interested Students
A High-Tech Framework will be launched, offering technology-career interested students an applied programming and app development experience. Specialist teachers and an industry trainer will support students in developing coding skills, hands-on programming, game development, iterative design, and purposeful use of AI tools. - Eagle View Elementary School
SD85 – Vancouver Island North
Project: EVES Social Tech Lab
The EVES Social Tech Lab will create a collaborative technology space, in which students will learn to engage with technology in healthy, purposeful ways. Through problem-solving activities, technology will be combined with international resource-building aiming to support student wellbeing and community.