Druide Raises $93,000 for the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie

Druide informatique and its subsidiary, Éditions Druide, held their fifteenth annual golf classic to benefit the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie. The event raised $93,000, bringing the total contributions to the foundation since the Druide Classic’s inception to over $800,000.

This year, to start off the celebrations for Antidote’s 30th anniversary, Druide pledged to match every dollar donated by its customers, partners and employees, up to a maximum of $30,000.

The money collected will enable the foundation to support two school initiatives in equal parts. The first aims to improve schooling conditions for young people across Quebec. Funded projects include renovating and improving school playgrounds as well as implementing homework help programs. The second contributes to the development of educational tools for the Dictée P.G.L., which has reached students from across Canada, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, the United States, Guinea, Morocco and Senegal this year.

The Classic concluded with a delightful dinner showcasing Myo Devices, the winner of the 2026 Druide Grand Prize for Business Creation. Cofounders Elya Quesnel and Armand Bahabi introduced the 170 or so guests to their mechanical device that transforms wheelchairs into personalized at-home rehabilitation platforms. This innovative device is meant to restore the independence of people with reduced mobility and to maximize their functional recovery.

Druide thanks everyone who contributed to the event’s success and is pleased to announce that the sixteenth Druide Classic will be held on June 1, 2027, at Club de golf Saint-Raphaël in Île-Bizard.

The Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote access to equitable, quality, lifelong education so that everyone has the means to shape their own future and that of society. Its activities focus on providing a broader perspective on education in Quebec and the French-speaking world. 

Druide informatique has been specializing in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics since 1993. The company produces and markets Antidote, the most comprehensive writing-assistance software available for English and French, as well as Typing Pal, the renowned typing-tutorial application. In addition to its software, Druide also publishes French-language literature and reference works through its subsidiary, Éditions Druide.