IMFTO’s first cohort of 8-14 years old BIPOC youth focused on future solutions for COVID-19 and system racism. In 2023, IMFTO added the focus on biodiversity. The 2024 theme was desinging a healthy community and youth’s power to affect it. The 2025 Theme is Superpowers for Kids: What if kids made the city design decisions? Designing a barrier-free city that is fully accessible, inclusive, supports community wellbeing is youth 

This In May 2025 over one hundred students from Toronto District School Boards (TDSB) schools will imagine, make, and share fresh ideas their ideas using Journalism, build advocacy through advertising, to share policy ideas for implementation in Design, Journalism, Policy, and Advertising workshops. Their ideas will be shown in a culminating workshop on May 21, 2025.

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Workshops

Design

Cities like Toronto are made by design. Thus, changing the city means that youth have to design as well. The IMFTO Design workshop and How-To Design videos will show youth how to design. Supplies donated by Above Ground.

Journalism

Journalists share news stories so that others can understand what is happening and take action to make things better. Learn how to tell news stories about what is happening in youth’s communities.

Policy

Youth’s fresh ideas can also design policies that have impact on more people. Learn from policy makers at the local, Provincial Ontario, and Federal levels of government.

Advertising

Advertising shares big ideas with the entire city through posters, billboards, short videos, flyers, and other ways of getting out youth’s messages for change that benefits BIPOC communities.