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Youth Blog On Winter Games 2010
May 14, 2010 - posted by Midtown

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The 2010 Student Experience blog was created by the West 1 Community Schools Team (CST) to engage youth in the Vancouver 2010 Torch Relays and Winter Games. With financial support from Canadian Heritage, the CST recruited a team of youth leaders from Eric Hamber Secondary to design and regularly update the blog with their observations, opinions, and feelings about the 2010 Winter Torch Relays and Games. The moderator team consisted of a group of "Youth, Engage, Learn, Lead" (YELL) students who were also actively involved in organizing the huge (2200+ participants) Athletes of the Future event and Hamber Olympic Fest...all this in addition to the after school programs they lead at local elementary schools.
 
On the 2010 Student Experience blog site, students across the district are invited to comment on posts and share their thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Tickets to Olympic and Paralympic events  donated by MoreSports have been awarded to students as prizes for bi-weekly contest entries. The contests were created and adjudicated by YELL students and examples include: Create an Olympic Meal, Design a New Mascot, and Write a Speech for the Closing Ceremony.
 
More than 300 Olympic and Paralympic event tickets have also been awarded to YELL leaders in recognition of their community service and leadership at Eric Hamber and Churchill Secondary Schools. Each student who received an event ticket was encouraged to report back and share their experiences on the blog with students from across the Lower Mainland and Canada. In all, the engagement of YELL students in planning, delivering, and celebrating Olympic related activities at their schools (through the Athletes of the Future event, Hamber Olympic Fest, and the 2010 Student Experience blog has helped these students create a significantly enriched 2010 Olympic experience for themselves, their peers, and their school communities. As one student put it, "We [YELL students] are not just promoting 'athletes' of the future, but leaders of the future."

 


  
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