Rotshennón:ni Two-Axe and Kayla Spencer-Young: IndigeSTEM | Warrior Up! Episode 107 | APTN

Two college friends launch IndigeSTEM, a club inspiring their fellow Indigenous students to delve into science.
Rotshennón:ni Two-Axe, 18, and Kayla Spencer-Young, 20, are two of the handful of Indigenous students studying science at Dawson College in Montreal. Indigenous students are severely underrepresented in STEM programs. Kayla, who comes from a northern Cree community, knows how tough it is for Indigenous students, especially those from remote communities, to imagine themselves in the sciences, so she and pal Rotshennón:ni hatched a plan: to start a hands-on science activity club for their Indigenous peers. They bring host Joshua Odjick and other students into the lab to dissect a moose heart and take him and a group to the Planetarium to marvel at the Northern Lights. By combining Two-Eyed Seeing and Western science perspectives in every outing, the two college students help their peers see that science can be fun and accessible.
Warrior Up! is a 13 x 22-minute youth documentary series that follows inspiring Indigenous youth making positive change in their communities! Whether it’s defending the land, learning nearly lost Indigenous hunting and building techniques, feeding unsheltered relatives or helping decolonize the fashion industry, the young changemakers featured in this series are making an impact. Warrior Up! shares their inspiring journeys of activism in engaging, entertaining ways as our three hosts take turns travelling Turtle Island, jumping in to lend a hand alongside these young warriors. Inuk actor Anna Lambe, 22, from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Anishinaabe actor Joshua Odjick, 21, from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, and actor Joel Oulette, 20, with ties to the Cumberland House Cree and Red River Métis Nation, find themselves shooting arrows from horseback, improvising a rap, walking the runway, building a pit house and packing blessing bags, learning just what it means to be a warrior.
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