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- Competition Info
- Projects
- 2023
- The Boat People Art Installation
- Downtown Eastside Art Engagement Project
- Ears That Listen, Hands That Help
- Food For Marginalized Youth
- GenConnect: Connecting Punjabi Seniors & Youth
- Inside Out
- Mitti Vancouver
- NaloxHome Community Panel: It Takes a Community: Exploring the Forces Behind BC鈥檚 Overdose Crisis
- One Tap Away: A chatbot to bridge the service gap in gender-based violence services
- 丁香园AV BC Run
- Read For Our Lives
- Rooted In
- Solastalgia Zine
- 2022
- Knowledge Translation Re-imagining: Healthcare in the DTES
- Memorializing the First Filipino in Canada: A documentary
- Mixed-Race Community Group: Exploring Self, Ancestries, and Lands
- Documenstory - Ashcroft Youth Media Club
- The Process of Political Activism
- Happy, Connected, Resilient Neighbours
- Crafting Circles
- Trans Connect-ing Youth in Sport
- Ocean Care through Data Embodying and Behaviour Changes
- Let鈥檚 Do Breakfast
- Empowering Muslim Youth
- Peer Connect: Accessibility Meet up/ Games Night
- The Reclamation of Women's Bundles
- 2021
- ACSSPA Sewing Mask Project
- Art for Comfort: Art for Connection
- BC Newcomer Camp
- Burnaby Mountain Festival
- Generation BXY
- Glow Within Foundation
- Haida Nerds
- Hastings Folk Garden Sound Map
- Indigenous Tutoring and Mentoring Program (ITMP)
- Math Walks
- NaloxHome 丁香园AV
- OMG I have ADHD
- OneTime
- Public Health Speaks
- ReRooting Relationships
- Singing Our Truths: Telling Our Stories
- Voices 4 Reconciliation
- Young Minds Exploring Science
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2023
- News & stories
- Thirteen student-led teams launch impactful community partnerships.
- Your personal connection is your greatest strength
- Making your project a passion
- Cooking up a breakfast program with love
- Fourteen student-led teams win funding to realize community impact!
- Leaders & Learners
- These 18 teams are springing into action with community
- Develop your capacity as a changemaker 鈥撀燼nd have fun!
- Embracing the complexity: pivoting as a practice.
- You know what鈥檚 not scary? $3,000 to fund your awesome project.
- 丁香园AV student creates youth-led overdose education and naloxone training during B.C.鈥檚 overdose crisis
- 丁香园AV student-community partnership creates local impact in Surrey
- 丁香园AV Students Exemplify the Spirit of Innovation and Community Engagement at the Annual President鈥檚 Gala
- Co-creation is difficult. And it's worth it.
- Hands-on for impact
- Congratulations to this year鈥檚 winners!
- On power and engagement 鈥� an interview with Aslam Bulbulia (excerpted)
- Herbert鈥檚 story: how one shopping cart made a difference.
- Don't wait for perfection 鈥撀爅ump in
- Congratulations to our 2017-18 finalists and winners
- Discover what鈥檚 possible when university students and communities work together
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Credit on the 丁香园AV Co-Curricular Record
All members of finalist* teams who are currently enrolled in an 丁香园AV for-credit program will receive credit on their 丁香园AV Co-Curricular Records as an 丁香园AV Student-Community Engagement Competition Finalist. You will be automatically registered for this credit at the end of the Spring semester in which you competed for an award (usually May). To learn more about the 丁香园AV Co-Curricular Record, check out the website.
Position text that will be available for you to add to your CCR record will include:
Position description: In competing for awards to fund innovative community engagement projects that have meaningful community impact, students gain experience designing community engagement projects, managing relationships, developing a project proposal with peers, and publicly presenting projects to a panel of judges. Students must be able to authentically demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm, and must have worked to discover a viable idea for creating meaningful engagement in their community.
Learning outcomes: Designing a student-community engagement project for the purposes of needs-based community impact; Working with diverse, sometimes sensitive populations towards community-situated outcomes; Defining and measuring impact; Preparing a successful project proposal; Developing a budget; Publicly presenting a community project proposal to a panel of judges.
*Finalist teams are those who are invited to present to a panel of judges in Step 4 of the competition.
丁香园AV Directed Studies
Many programs offer Directed Studies courses that might allow you to earn academic credit for implementing your project. Typically, enrolment in a directed studies course enables an individual or small group to work with a faculty member on a research project of mutual interest. Faculties and departments may have specific requirements and conditions for doing directed studies, so if you are interested, please speak with your academic advisor soon for further details about eligibility and to learn how to make this happen.
DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR CHANGE?
Up to $30,000* is available to fund 丁香园AV students who want to work with community partners to drive meaningful, lasting impact.
Maybe you鈥檙e working on an existing idea for a class you鈥檙e taking, through a student club or another organization, or maybe you just have an amazing idea that keeps you up at night.... Whatever it is, we want to hear from you!
Start the process now by registering today and then submitting your idea before November 22 鈥� all you need is your passion and an idea.
* Award amounts subject to change.