Nunavik Youth Hockey Development Program

The Challenge The Nunavik Youth Hockey Development Program (NYHDP) encourages young Inuit to pursue their education while participating in hockey. The program links academic performance with the right to participate in the program. The program’s challenges include communicating over vast distances to participants in the region’s remote communities and managing the administration from Kujjuaq, the capital of the Nunavik region.

The Solution The Studio helped develop a website for the hockey program that would be the hub of all information provided by coaches, trainers, teachers and program administrators. Coaches accessed the site to prepare hockey practices and submit activity reports, teachers added information about their students in the program and program administrators monitored all activities, including the amount of time students and coaches were dedicating to the program.

The Result The website re-established the online presence of the program and provided administrators an easy-to-use, password-protected area for tracking the progress of players and coaches. The site continues to be developed with plans to translate the content into Inuktituk, the regional language, and French.