Page 7 Northern Mines Expo 2013 Goldcorp Porcupine Gold Mines DeBeers Canada IAMGOLD and Dumas work with 2 school boards Conseil Scolaire Catholique de Dis trict des Grandes Rivieres and District School Board Ontario North East to produce a Mining Industry A wareness Program The initiative involved de veloping posters magazines videos and introducin g a grade 4 curriculum from Mining Matters for the teachers This new initi ative will educate T im mins and area youth about the impor tance of minin g and present to them the challengin g careers available within the mini ng sector W e look for ward to collab orate with several in dustry partners to expand the bilingual workplace for our community stated Nicole Gaudet Supervisory Offcer with the Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grandes Rivieres The goal of the program is to make students aware of the importance of mining in their communitie s at an earlier age thus paving the way for in creased interest in selecting mining as a career choice An additional focus of the awareness program was to highlight W omen in mining as stated by Imola Gotz Contd on pg 08 impressive showcase of minerelated exhibits was frst class According to National Publicity Di rector Jay Cornelsen in char ge of spe cial events This year the Big Event has made big strides in developing our mandate to promote Careers in Mining and include the First Nations Groups in our dialogue Student bus tours were encouraged from the region and a workshop co sponsored by Mining Matters T im mins Chamber of Commerce and Mining Life Online was held for teachers as the frontline enablers to deliver information encouraging stu dents and their families to look at ca reers in the mining industry The First Nations took a high profle this year with the Nishnawabe Aski Develop ment Fund sponsoring an Aboriginal Pavilion and Procurement Confer ence featuring Phil Fontaine Special Advisor to RBC and former National Chief of Assembly of First Nations as the luncheon keynote speaker The conference panel included a cross section of speakers including Ab original leaders and negotiators and representatives from mining compa nies and industry suppliers who spoke on themes related to negotiations and agreements Aboriginal community relations and partnership develop ment Contd from pg 06 Mining industry sponsors Industry A war eness Pr ogram for T immins and r egion schools