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The Centre for Global Education facilitates programming for over 10,000 students every year from every corner of the planet. TCGE's programming focuses on: Peace and Global Education and Higher Level Learning and Research.

Peace and Global Education

These programs seek to bring together students from around the world to learn about each other and the impact they can have on the world when we work together.

The VC for Hope raises awareness and funds for education in developing countries through bringing the worlds' schools face-to-face, via video conference, with each other and the students in developing countries. The conference, in its fourth year of existence, sends a Video Conferencing unit to a developing through which students can interact directly with the students for whom they are raising money to build a school. In partnership with Change for Children Association, the VC for Hope has raised over $25,000 for school in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

The Four Nations Classroom

The Four Nations Classroom partners schools from Pakistan to Mexico, and Jordan to China, for month long collaborative projects. Countries are put into groups of four and rotate through each of their partners between September and December. With their partners, they make their way through an established curriculum while working on a series of cross cultural collaborations.

Higher Level learning and Collaborative Research

The Alberta Virtual Classroom partners high schools with universities and research institutes from across North America. From such topics as Climate Change to Stem Cell Research, high school student have an opportunity to research alongside experts and graduate students through our interactive student websites. After a set time of collaboration, participants share their results via video conference.