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ILA's Black STEM Literacy Week

ILA's 2024 Black STEM Literacy Week activities for this year are on the themes of Space and will comprise two parts. Part 1: Hands-on Space [...]

Virtual School Program

Online tutoring and interactive STEM experiences for high school students.

After-School Program

Students explore hands-on science and engineering activities.

FIRST LEGO League Program

Students build and program robots while developing solutions to real-world problems.

ILA Coding Program

Students learn coding in HTML, VBA, and Arduino.

Culture of Growing

 A youth-led community garden and greenhouse that will contribute to community food security. The community projects will involve youth in all aspects of the farming cycle.

BEST-STEM

A national network of out-of-school-time programs supporting Black, Indigenous, and LatinX students for pathways into STEM programs and professions

Future Universal Navigators 2024 Summer Camp (Young, Gifted & Black Future Physicists)

Imhotep's Legacy Academy Physics Summer Camp is aimed to enhance students of African descent to flourish in Physics.

2024 SPROUTING SCIENCE SUMMER CAMP

Campers will discover and learn about various hands-on planting and gardening techniques and participate in planting a shared plot at the Akoma Community Garden.

Opportunities & Support

Opportunities & Support

Imhotep's Legacy Academy is Hiring!

ILA-TD Bank Scholarship

Summer Student Research Scholarships

Apply for our $6,500 - $9,100 research scholarships.

YouTube - Imhotep's Legacy Academy

Catch-up with Imhotep's Legacy Academy through ILA's YouTube channel and subscribe! http://bit.ly/ILA-YouTube

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An Introduction to ILA

After-School Program science activities (videos in development)

Appreciation for our sponsors.

ILA Social Media

ILA Social Media

Over the weekend, we had our Fall Professional Development Training at ILA! We had lots of fun learning and meeting the various mentors, coordinators and staff! Thank you to all those who attended both virtually and in-person!
Join us for an author event featuring Claudette Bouman in celebration of her new book, Failing Forward in Saarland. This memoir chronicles the challenges facing a transplanted Canadian with Caribbean roots when she and her family move to Saarland, Germany. Date: Sunday 29th September, 2pm. Location: Room 301, Halifax Central Library. See you there!
Friday September 13th, we hosted the annual Summer Student Research Scholarship (SSRS) Poster Presentation at the ILA Learning Centre. Thank you to all the students who presented their research, it was an insightful experience hearing about all you did over the Summer! Special thanks to all the professors and supervisors who helped these students through their research. Lastly, thank you to all those who attended this event and for making it a huge success!
Dal Science invites students who self-identify as African Nova Scotian, Black, and/or of African descent to a special welcome event! Join us on September 23rd from 12-2pm in Room 270 of the Student Union Building for lunch, networking, and an insightful student panel sharing their university experiences. This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow students, advisors, faculty, staff, and student leaders Register through the link in our bio!
On Thursday, September 12 our Executive Director and Program Director were invited to participate in the reception marking the official arrival of the U.S. Consul General Viki Limaye and Consul Lauren Vine to Halifax. ILA welcomes the consul general and her team to Halifax.
On Friday, September 6th, we hosted our First Lego League (FLL) Parent/Child Meet & Greet Session at the ILA Learning Centre. Our team gave an overview of how the 2024/2025 FLL session would be about and gave some guidelines on how sessions would be run. We also had a great Q&A session with our parents and ILA FLL mentors, as well as our admin staff. Thank you to all the parents and students who attended this session and we look forward to welcoming our students to the first FLL session this coming week!
Join us to congratulate Asher Trim-Gaskin, the Executive Director of Imhotep Legacy Academy(ILA) for being named as one of Dalhousie University’s outstanding community-focused employees for the 2023/2024 school year. Congratulations Asher on this nomination! To read more about these nominations, visit the link in our bio!
Come join us at our annual Summer Student Research Scholarship Poster Presentations on Friday 13th of September at the ILA Learning Centre from 3-4:30pm! We can’t wait to see you there!
On Saturday 24th August, ILA held its annual Strategic Planning meeting. Members from the board of directors, ILA partners, program participants, staff, parents, ILA alumni and other interested parties were present. Interactive knowledge sharing sessions tasked the attendees to reflect and collectively strategize on innovative and comprehensive resolutions to support ILA’s continued growth and advancement towards our mission. We are looking forward to all that is to come as the new school year begins.
Magnetic Goo Experiment

About ILA

About ILA

Imhotep's Legacy Academy (ILA) is an innovative university-community partnership that uniquely mobilizes university/college students, faculty and community leaders to help improve student success and bridge the achievement gap for Grades 6-12 students of African heritage in Nova Scotia.

Who is Imhotep?

Black excellence!

Learn more about the man, the legend, the polymath...

Major Sponsors

Major Sponsors

Department of Canadian Heritage

Imhotep DAL Funders
Imhotep CCH

Education and Early Childhood Development
Communities, Culture and Heritage
Labour and Advanced Education
African Nova Scotian Affairs
Department of Agriculture