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Year: 1993 – Province: Ontario

Local Recipients

Derek Tolhurst

Derek Tolhurst is a Technological Studies Consultant with the Renfrew County Board of Education in Pembroke. He introduced and integrated technological activities into many classrooms at the kindergarten to grade 6 levels. Through these activities, students learn about, and become comfortable with, technology at an early age.