Get Outside BC – Youth Leadership Summit

Passionate about the outdoors and leadership?

Want to make a difference in your community?

Get Outside BC is an all-expenses-paid project taking place this summer! Attend a leadership summit in Squamish with 40 other youth from across BC, plan and host your own outdoor event in your community, and reunite with summit participants from your region in the fall. The project is being organized and delivered by BC Parks, Parks Canada, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Child and Nature Alliance and CPAWS-BC. British Columbia youth between the ages of 14 and 18 are invited to apply. If you are interested in spending time in the outdoors and want to inspire other youth to get outside, then this is the program for you.

Make sure you send in your application by Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by 6 pm to: getoutsidebc@cpawsbc.org

For more information, please visit: http://www.getoutsidebc.ca/

LEAP: Leadership Ecology Adventure Program

What is LEAP?
LEAP is an 8 day, residential, outdoor immersion program. The Leadership Ecology Adventure Program (LEAP) provides kids from around the world with a hands-on summer outdoor immersion. LEAP participants experience a sampling of outdoor activities while developing their leadership skills and gaining knowledge of both environmental issues and local ecology.  LEAP is a dynamic and experiential program that focuses on both the hard and soft skills associated with living well and being in the outdoors. During the 8 day residential program, students will have countless opportunities to positively interact with each other while creating memories to last a lifetime. Who ever thought school could be so good!

Where is LEAP?
The LEAP happens in Powell River, BC.

When is LEAP?

Leap has 2 sessions. LEAP A is from July 3rd to July 10th. LEAP B is from July 15th to July 22nd.

Who can participate in LEAP?
All students aged 14-17. Students who live outside of BC or Canada will have to pay a $400 fee. For students who live in BC, the program is FREE!!

BC Students can also receive credits for Leadership 11/12 upon successful completion of this program. LEAP is taught by inspired teachers.

If you have further questions, please refer to LEAP’s website: http://www.outdoors.sd47.bc.ca/leap.html

Canadian Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Are you a student in grade 11 or 12 and passionate about water and the envrionment?

Participate in the world’s most prestigious youth award for a water related science project!!

To Participate:

• Develop a great water related project
• Submit your project to your Regional Science Fair (http://www.apps.ysf-fsj.ca/fairlocator/)
• Nominate your project for the Canadian Stockholm Junior Water Prize during registration for the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Toronto, Ontario (May 14th to 21, 2011)

Award

THE WINNER WILL REPRESENT CANADA IN STOCKHOLM!

• Compete in the final of the International Stockholm Junior Water Prize
• A sponsored trip to Stockholm, Sweden, during World Water Week
• A chance to win $5000 (usd)

The two runners-up projects for the Canadian competition each receive a $300 CAD cash prize.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.youthscience.ca
http://www.sjwp.ca

Deep River Science Academy

Deep River Science Academy is a science summer program for high school students between 15 and 17 years old.

The program is not for the faint of heart – it’s an intensive six weeks of chemistry, physics, biology and math. You pick your subject area and we’ll put you in the laboratory or in the field. Do you enjoy chemistry? We’ll put in a lab. Would you prefer to work outside? Then we’ll put you in the field (aka swamp or forest – depending on the research project).

Afraid you won’t know the answers to the research? Don’t worry – neither do we! This is what makes our program and your experience unique. So unique in fact, there is no other program like it in Canada. You become part of a real research team. You will not be placed in a classroom, with books and a teacher lecturing you. You are placed with another student under the guidance of a Research Assistant/Tutor (RA/T) and a professional scientist. YOU are EXPECTED to do the work – it’s called experiential learning. You learn by doing. And we expect a lot.

Afraid you won’t know the answers to the research? Don’t worry – neither do we! This is what makes our program and your experience unique. So unique in fact, there is no other program like it in Canada. You become part of a real research team. You will not be placed in a classroom, with books and a teacher lecturing you. You are placed with another student under the guidance of a Research Assistant/Tutor (RA/T) and a professional scientist. YOU are EXPECTED to do the work – it’s called experiential learning. You learn by doing. And we expect a lot.

What does “a real research team” mean? We get our projects from professional scientists, engineers, biologists and technicians who spend months and years on a research project. To encourage you to become a scientist, you get the opportunity to help that scientist on one small portion of his/her work. When our scientists conclude their projects and publish their results, the students who worked on that project get credit. It’s called being published, and it has happened to a few our students.

The program takes place from June 26th to August 26th, 2011 in Deep River, Ontario.

Applications can be found on the website, http://drsa.ca

EARLY BIRD APPLICATIONS ARE DUE JANUARY 15th, 2011!