Going to Montreal

So excited!!! Minna and I were invited to go to a training session in MONTREAL!!! By Al Gore of all people, about his presentation An Inconvenient Truth. Just 2 more weeks to go!!! We leave on the 3rd and come back on the 7th of April. I just found out the on the 5th well be watching a comedy show that will raise money for a Global Warming fund.

Interactive Innovations

A few students in my class including myself, were invited to conference about Innovations in BC. It was an after school event that when till 8 pm. In the beginning schools got to showcase their innovations and we presented our PowerPoint. It was nice to see what other schools were doing, but it didn’t relate at all with what we were doing, except for the Bing presentation.
I was followed by a presentation from a man (which whom I forgot the name of) , he started young with technology and put up a website at the age of… I think was 10? He talks about how he sold his website and made a new one that would network teens from across the world. It was very inspirational showing how youth can influence so much.
Dinner with and orange theme. Yummy….
There was another presentation by an Olympic winner. She talked about her life and about her struggle. She also talked about bringing playing back into families and communities. Her idea was that not enough people played outside anymore and that there should be open gym for families. I thought it was completely irrelevant to what we were here for and I don’t think this applies to us. I think this was mostly targeted to parents and teachers, but the idea did make sense.

Summit Planning

Lately our class has been involved in planning for a summit on April 28 about sustainability with representatives of city hall. Our school is taking of lots of work focusing on the budget of the event, the gift bags and the catering (which I am in charge of). We want to inform the Vancouver School Board about global warming and how they can help school conserve more energy, water and how to use less.