CommunAT is the coordination layer underneath Manitoba's existing STEM programs — not a replacement for them.
Across Manitoba, STEM programming happens in silos. A school division runs a coding club. A library hosts a Raspberry Pi night. A makerspace opens its shop two evenings a month. A robotics team meets in a church basement. A summer camp posts to its own Facebook group.
Each of these is doing good work. None of them know what the others are doing. Families can't find them in one place. Educators can't share resources between them. Equipment sits idle in one org while another org can't afford to buy it. Curriculum gets rebuilt from scratch instead of borrowed.
The programs aren't broken. The map is missing.
Every STEM event, club night, camp, fair, and open shop in one searchable view — filterable by age, neighborhood, format, and cost.
Lesson plans, kit build guides, project rubrics, parent handouts — contributed by member orgs, reusable across the network.
Age-graded modules and lesson plans shared across the network. Member orgs can pull in curriculum or contribute their own.
Provincial science fairs, robotics tournaments, library STEM weeks — coordinated centrally so member orgs can join without rebuilding from scratch.
A robotics arm sitting unused at one center this month can be borrowed by another center across town. Inventory sharing without inventory loss.
Engineers, teachers, post-secondary students who want to volunteer — matched to programs that need them.
CommunAT doesn't run STEM programs. It doesn't compete with FIRST Robotics or Code Club or library coding nights. It connects them.
Think of it the way a transit map sits underneath transit — every bus and train still has its own operator, its own schedule, its own riders. The map doesn't replace any of that. It just makes the whole system findable and navigable.
Initial focus is Greater Winnipeg — schools, libraries, community centers, and existing STEM clubs inside the city. Once the model is working there, we expand to rural Manitoba and Indigenous communities, where the program gap is widest and a coordination layer matters most.
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