Tech Valley, the official Canva for Education partner in Pakistan, has hosted a hands-on Canva training session at Islamabad Model School in Jhan Syedan as part of the Summer Fest programme run by the Federal Directorate of Education. Led by certified trainers Ameema Raja and Saima Gul, between 35 and 40 students from grades 6 to 10 took part in the two hour session, marking an extension of Tech Valley’s Canva for Education partnership from teacher training into direct student engagement.
During the session, students covered design and layout fundamentals within the Canva interface, explored Canva’s Magic Studio and other AI assisted design features, and learned the basics of building simple, functional websites directly within the platform. The training also introduced students to prompting techniques for AI tools and walked them through the Canva Design School, which offers certified learning tracks and information on freelancing opportunities for those looking to build design skills into a future career path.
The session forms part of a broader rollout that began earlier this year, when Tech Valley and the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training launched an AI focused Canva for Education training programme for school heads and IT teachers across Islamabad’s federal school system. That initiative, which grew out of a formal agreement between Tech Valley and the ministry, has already trained more than 800 school heads and IT teachers across over 400 schools, with Tech Valley running a train the trainer model under its Canva Champion Programme to help embed digital skills within institutions on a sustained basis rather than through one off sessions.
Organisers said the student session at Islamabad Model School highlighted particular interest among the participating students in freelance career paths connected to design and digital skills, with older students naturally taking on a mentoring role for younger participants during the session. Tech Valley described the interaction as evidence that local student talent needs primarily the right access to tools and training in order to develop practical, marketable skills.
The Federal Directorate of Education’s Summer Fest programme has provided a platform for this kind of supplementary digital skills training to reach students directly during the school break, building on the ministry’s broader Quality Education and Innovation Roadmap, which has emphasised integrating globally recognised platforms such as Canva into federal schools to prepare students and educators for a more digitally driven economy. With teacher training under the programme well underway, sessions such as this one signal a gradual expansion of the Tech Valley and Federal Directorate of Education partnership toward direct student facing digital literacy training within Islamabad’s public school system.
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