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Latest · October 2, 2026
Stories tagged “Mckenna institute” — tech coverage from New Brunswick, Canada.
Tech coordinators and coaches from every anglophone district spent two days with the McKenna Institute, EECD, and the Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovation on the Miramichi.
Eleven Student Digital Mentors are running free workshops and drop-ins across New Brunswick — resetting passwords, spotting scams, and proving the digital divide is a people problem.
The pilot reached more than 150 students on the days New Brunswick classrooms sit empty — and the Dieppe session sent the adaptive switches and toys it built to the Stan Cassidy Centre.
The new Network for Entrepreneurship and Innovation puts seven campus programs under one roof, with Dhirendra Shukla as inaugural executive director and a claimed $125.5M spinoff impact.
Launched in 2021 with $5 million from the former premier and a plan to raise $50 million more, UNB's McKenna Institute has grown into the province's most ambitious bet on digital skills — reaching from kindergarten classrooms to research chairs.
