/engagement-competition/news-and-stories2024-11-10T03:45:28.349ZNews & stories - ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition - ¶ˇĎăÔ°AVNews and updates on the competition, its finalists and the communities with which they are working to create meaningful impact.Thirteen student-led teams launch impactful community partnerships.noemail@noemail.orgcyakimovFeaturing rich programs of community-engaged education, arts-based engagement, and technological innovation, this year’s winners are addressing food security, migrant history, cultural connection, intergenerational knowledge-keeping, gender-based violence, access to education, the toxic drug crisis, climate grief and hope, reconciliation, and homelessness./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/2023-24-winners2024-03-08T21:50:00.000Z2024-03-18T17:08:32.423ZYour personal connection is your greatest strengthnoemail@noemail.orgkjyanWith transphobia growing in Canada, non-binary people in this country are asking for policies to protect them in sport, but they have been continuously left out of the conversations that should inform these policies. That’s where Martha Gumprich’s project comes in. /engagement-competition/news-and-stories/your-personal-connection-is-your-greatest-strength2023-10-20T17:00:00.000Z2024-03-07T19:07:27.329ZMaking your project a passionnoemail@noemail.orgkjyanWhen COVID-19 hit, we all realized the importance of having a local neighbourhood network. Many people experienced major changes in their lives, such as losing their income and social network, or losing access to activities that supported their overall well-being. As a Roots of Empathy instructor who was fortunate enough to have a strong network of support, Rita Lee started looking for more ways to be of service to those around her. /engagement-competition/news-and-stories/making-your-project-a-passion2023-10-19T17:00:00.000Z2024-03-07T19:08:11.620ZCooking up a breakfast program with lovenoemail@noemail.orgcyakimovIn 2022, Ritu Mehra, Harbir Dhaliwal, and Muskan Jammu partnered with local schools to start a breakfast program that incorporates fun education about healthy food choices. More than just a project, Let’s Do Breakfast was inspired by their own personal experiences and their desire to give back to the community./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/cooking-up-a-breakfast-program-with-love2023-10-16T23:00:00.000Z2023-10-25T15:55:03.567ZThe power of community – Language support for displaced Ukrainian childrennoemail@noemail.orgkjyanWhen then-¶ˇĎăÔ°AV (¶ˇĎăÔ°AV) student Saba Fatemi and her peers won the 2019 ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student Community Engagement Competition with their “CommuniCreate” initiative – a program for refugee and newcomer children pre-pandemic – she didn’t specifically have Ukrainian children in mind./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/the-power-of-community-language-support-for-displaced-Ukrainian-children2023-07-31T18:00:00.000Z2023-07-31T22:34:09.911ZChanging Classrooms and Communities: How an FHS student educated over 5,000 people on overdose harm reductionnoemail@noemail.orggmalbasIn 2020, BSc student Chloe Goodison started Naloxhome as a community engagement project providing overdose education and naloxone training to secondary students in the Tri-Cities area. Today, her project has helped not only those in Tri-Cities classrooms, but throughout Metro Vancouver. /fhs/news-events/news/2023/changing-classrooms-and-communities-chloe-goodison2023-06-15T22:00:00.000Z2023-06-19T18:07:18.092Z¶ˇĎăÔ°AV students feed minds as well as bodies with healthy breakfast programnoemail@noemail.orggmalbas¶ˇĎăÔ°AV students and friends Muskan Jammu, Ritu Mehra, and Harbir Dhaliwal won a $2,000 grant in the Student-Community Engagement Competition and will be using it to address food security and improve nutritional education in their "Let's Do Breakfast" program for elementary students. Background photo: Freepik/fhs/news-events/news/2023/students-feed-minds-as-well-as-bodies-with-healthy-breakfast-program2023-05-08T17:00:00.000Z2023-05-24T18:58:11.574ZFHS student part of team knitting together art, mental wellness, advocacy, community noemail@noemail.orggmalbasFHS BSc first year student Puneet Chhina (second from left, inset) and her Finding Present team co-leads (left to right, inset) Anisha Biswas, Catherine Wong, and ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Geography student Gabrielle Wong - won a $2,000 grant in the 2022 ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition. The team aims to host Crafting Circles for Langley, BC youth to provide access to art and mentorship, and build community and relationships./fhs/news-events/news/2023/fhs-student-part-of-team-knitting-together-art-health-community2023-04-05T17:00:00.000Z2023-05-24T18:55:09.157ZMSc candidate wins grant to help affirm trans and non-binary youth participation in sport noemail@noemail.orgfhscommMartha Gumprich (left inset) and Nicola Hare (right inset) from Kootenays-based health and community group, Trans Connect, will host two discussions to ask trans and non-binary youth what changes would help make sport more welcoming/fhs/news-events/news/2023/msc-candidate-wins-grant-to-help-affirm-trans-non-binary-youth2023-03-27T21:00:00.000Z2023-05-24T17:46:06.884ZFourteen student-led teams win funding to realize community impact!noemail@noemail.orgcyakimovFeaturing community-engaged research, policy-targeted knowledge mobilization, equity-serving knowledge translation, and even Bertie, a breakfast banana mascot, this year’s winners of the ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition are bravely building community partnerships across BC in order to tackle challenging complex issues, like Islamophobia, food insecurity, health justice and more./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/2022-23-winners2023-03-23T20:50:00.000Z2023-10-25T15:55:46.432ZLeaders & Learnersnoemail@noemail.orgcyakimovIn early 2021, about a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, five students from ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV and UBC came together to persist in their passion for bringing STEM to young learners in Surrey. Delivering their program met with some challenges, but as with so much community engagement work, maintaining respectful communication with partners continues to allow them to engage in their passion for engaging young leaders and learners./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/leaders-and-learners2023-03-17T15:35:00.000Z2023-05-05T18:14:37.661ZThese 18 teams are springing into action with communitynoemail@noemail.orgcyakimovFrom art-based co-creation or engaging with schools, to community advocacy and meaningful acts of Reconciliation and more, the winners of this year’s ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition are putting ideas into action with their community partners./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/2021-22-winners2022-03-18T20:50:00.000Z2023-09-26T18:03:41.223ZDevelop your capacity as a changemaker – and have fun!noemail@noemail.orgcyakimovPriscilla Lam and Angelica Tso won a $3,000 Grand Prize Award in the 2020-21 Student Community Engagement Competition for their idea to build an app that would incentivize widespread habit change around using disposable cups. After several months working with businesses in the Lower Mainland to bring their idea to life, they took some time to reflect on what the process has been like, offering some great advice: remember to learn and have fun – changemaking is an ongoing pursuit./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/develop-your-capacity-as-a-change-maker2021-11-09T16:35:00.000Z2023-12-18T18:32:38.477ZEmbracing the complexity: pivoting as a practice.noemail@noemail.orgkjyanIn 2018, the We Are the World project was awarded $3,000 to found a magazine to showcase seniors' stories of resilience. Three years later, we are pleased to share that the project is still moving forward, though with some changes./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/embracing-complexity-pivoting-as-a-practice2021-11-05T15:35:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.821ZYou know what’s not scary? $3,000 to fund your awesome project.noemail@noemail.orgreference-adjustment-serviceHappy Halloween, ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV. While COVID-19 still means that our office can’t give out candy like we usually do, you can still trick-or-treat with us by registering and submitting your idea to the
¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/no-trick-all-treat2021-10-26T21:28:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.773Z¶ˇĎăÔ°AV student creates youth-led overdose education and naloxone training during B.C.’s overdose crisisnoemail@noemail.orgkjyanNaloxHome is a youth-run team focusing on providing overdose education and naloxone training to secondary students in the Tri-Cities area (Coquitlam, Port Moody, and Port Coquitlam). /engagement-competition/news-and-stories/naloxone-training2021-04-29T21:28:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.792Z¶ˇĎăÔ°AV student-community partnership creates local impact in Surreynoemail@noemail.orgkjyanCommuniCreate helps newcomer and refugee youth in the Lower Mainland learn English. An award-winning project of the ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition, it was initially designed as a hands-on in-person learning experience. /engagement-competition/news-and-stories/CommuniCreate2020-08-13T22:17:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.787Z¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Students Exemplify the Spirit of Innovation and Community Engagement at the Annual President’s Galanoemail@noemail.orgkjyanA total of $28,000 has been awarded to fund ten student-led projects that exemplify the competition’s purpose and serve as shining examples of the creativity, vision, and community commitment of ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV’s students./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/2019-20-finalists-and-winners2020-03-09T22:04:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.795ZCo-creation is difficult. And it's worth it.noemail@noemail.orgkjyanCo-Colour shares a few reflections on the ups and downs of partnership work./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/co-creation-is-difficult-and-its-worth-it2019-08-30T00:23:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.761ZCongratulations to this year’s winners!noemail@noemail.orgkjyanThanks to financial contributions by Blackwood Partners, ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV and the City of Surrey, a total of $17,000 has been awarded to fund these student-community engagement projects. /engagement-competition/news-and-stories/congratulations-to-this-years-winners2019-03-13T21:53:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.818ZOn power and engagement – an interview with Aslam Bulbulia (excerpted)noemail@noemail.orgkjyan¶ˇĎăÔ°AV’s Student Engage podcast caught up with Aslam Bulbulia – SCEC finalist for his project “Masculinity Dialogues” – in September, for an incredible conversation about impact, power, language and engagement. Aslam’s ongoing commitment to equity and justice is inspiring./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/on-power-and-engagement2018-11-06T16:25:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.803ZHerbert’s story: how one shopping cart made a difference.noemail@noemail.orgkjyanIn 2015 two “two-footers” reimagined how a shopping cart might make a meaningful difference to the residents of Surrey Centre. Kate Elliot and Tammas Grogan won the 2015 Student-Community Engagement Competition for their project, Gro-Carts. And for shopping carts like Herbert, it was a destiny-changing project./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/herberts-story-how-one-shopping-cart-made-a-difference2018-10-29T22:04:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.799ZDon’t wait for perfection – jump innoemail@noemail.orgcyakimovCommunity-engaged projects can be surprising. But as Shantelle Medel shares with us, “It is better to jump in and encounter the imperfections than be paralyzed by trying to achieve perfection.” It’s messy work, but worth it. /engagement-competition/news-and-stories/dont-wait-for-perfection-jump-in2018-10-22T15:26:00.000Z2023-12-18T19:02:45.072ZCongratulations to our 2017-18 finalists and winnersnoemail@noemail.orgkjyanThe passion, creativity and ingenuity of ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV students continues to shine, exemplified yet again by the outstanding project presentations that took place at this year’s ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV Student-Community Engagement Competition final awards./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/congratulations-to-our-2017-18-finalists-and-winners-2018-04-16T22:04:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.767ZDiscover what’s possible when university students and communities work together to make positive local change!noemail@noemail.orgkjyanThe 2017 Student-Community Engagement Competition (SCEC) Awards Nights are here! Over the winter break, difficult decisions were made, but 9 projects were selected as finalists, each earning the opportunity to compete for an award to help put their innovative project plans into action./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/discover-what_s-possible-when-university-students-and-communitie2018-02-06T22:59:00.000Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.754ZHands-on for impactnoemail@noemail.orgkjyanZahra Haq and Angela Ang won an Engagement Award in the 2017-18 Student Community Engagement Competition to implement Eco Endeavours, an after school care program focussed on the environment. Check out what they learned as they implemented their program./engagement-competition/news-and-stories/hands-on-eco-endeavours2022-02-25T03:23:55.826Z2022-02-25T03:23:55.826Z