A young woman known as the “girl with robots” at Pinnguaq Association’s Makerspace in Iqaluit is being memorialized with a scholarship that will carry forward her legacy.
It’s been a little more than three years since Danielle Moore and 156 others were killed in a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crash in Ethiopia. Moore was in Iqaluit shortly before her death, sharing her love of technology and coding with youth, and had plans to return to the city for volunteer work that summer.
“She really attracted a lot of love from the kids in the short time she got to work with us,” said Ryan Oliver, Pinnguaq’s CEO. “She was a really important part of the soul of this space.”
The Makerspace is a hub for people of all ages to explore science and technology. Staff from Canada Learning Code came North to help Pinnguaq open a permanent location in 2018.
That’s how Oliver and Moore first met.
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