Program delivery really begins with a student's interest or the curriculum that a teacher needs to meet. Both of those things are equally important in engaging students. A teacher will come to our team members—we have almost 20 educators on our team who help to deliver the program—and they'll say that they have a student interested in Shakespeare or a student who wants to learn about indigenous cooking or about science experiments. We will source an amazing guest speaker to deliver a session to inspire and engage them.
I think one of the things that also makes the program special is that we will send the supplies and materials to the school to make that happen, whether that's soapstone for them to do a carving, or squid—our office is full of squid. Students will dissect squid to do a science experiment. There are also books by indigenous authors. This year we sent over 800 shipments to our partner schools to make sessions and supplies possible.
Obviously the program requires a sufficient Internet connection to exist. We've seen in an Auditor General's report this week that there are still some challenges with having adequate access for many first nations communities—Inuit and Métis communities too—but we have seen improvements in recent years, in that more schools are able to participate that weren't able to do it before.
Essentially, at the heart of the program, it's delivering a learning experience to meet a student's interest, and it's also aligned to over 2,000 curriculum objectives, so we make it easy for teachers to see how what we have to offer in our catalogue meets the curriculum.