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Imhotep’s Legacy Academy

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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

Watch videos:

An Introduction to ILA

After-School Program science activities (videos in development)

Appreciation for our sponsors.

ILA Social Media

ILA Social Media

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