The SchoolNet GrassRoots Program, together with its provincial, territorial and corporate partners, promotes academic, employability and computer skills in Canadian youth by integrating information and communications technologies into learning. GrassRoots projects are initiated, designed and implemented by the teacher and students, are curriculum relevant and focus on learning activities carried out using the Internet. Students seek out online resources and carry out collaborative activities that result in a final report and website that are published on the Internet.
GrassRoots projects take place over a significant period of time, the minimum being four weeks.
The funding for the SchoolNet GrassRoots Program comes from the federal government, GrassRoots Partners in the Provinces and Territories as well as corporate sponsors. Individual or Block Project proposals are submitted using an on-line form. Projects are evaluated using established evaluation criteria . Upon approval, project proposals are posted in the GrassRoots Project Gallery . Within 30 days of the end of the project, the teacher is required to submit a project report using the on-line form .