Youth Action Initiative Coffee House

Our Mt. Sentinel Library & Media Centre (Learning Commons) will be hosting a student-led coffee house weekday mornings from 8 am - 8:30, on Mon, Tues, and Thurs, sponsored by the Youth Action Initiative. Coffee will be fair trade, and is provided by Oso Negro.

The price list is as follows:
for bringing a reusable cup it's $2.50
for bring in a reusable travel mug it's $3.00
for buying a paper cup its an extra 0.50 cents on to a cup price so $3

Sales will go to supporting the Youth Action Initiative, a student-led group which promotes global awareness. Many thanks to Stephanie Parker-Davis and Amanda Jmayoff for being student leaders in this endeavour. Also, many thanks to our PAC for providing the start-up funds!

Y.E.T.I.?

Today at Mt. Sentinel Secondary School, we had the pleasure of meeting four organizers affiliated with Y.E.T.I.--no, not the abominable snowman from Tibet, but the Youth-Driven Empowerment Transition Initiative--an initiative that helps youth realize their dreams for sustainability, peace, and environment. Their website describes YETI as:

"YETI unleashes and supports the positive potential of youth, with youth, through arts-centered, animal & wilderness based intergenerational and multi-cultural experiential learning "opportunities". What YETI learns, YETI diseminates in view of bringing new strategies and resources to pre-existing issues in view of evolving policy to reflect changing community needs and wisdom."

The organizers met with students from the Youth Action Initiative at Mt. Sentinel to help them with their planning and their own youth driven initiative. The power of youth to harness their energy towards action can truly create meaningful and lasting change.

Many of us around the world are feeling a calling to reclaim our place in the natural world, and in so doing, to awaken our authentic power to co-create the future of our lives and shape the future of our world.

Visit their website here: http://www.yeticafe.org/ositive potential of youth, with youth, through arts-centered wilderness based intergenerational and multi-c

Kootenay CO-Op Radio Summer Camp

Kootenay Coop Radio is offering their 3rd Annual Youth Radio Camp!

This is a wonderful opportunity for youth to learn something new, be creative and have fun!

There are four weeks (Monday – Friday) and age groups available where youth will learn a number of fun and interesting aspects to working in radio. All the skills and knowledge acquired will help each group decide what kind of radio show they will want to write, produce and broadcast live on Friday afternoon!

Weeks and Rates:
Ages 8-11: July 5-9
Ages 11-14: July 19-23
Ages 15-18: August 9-13
Ages 11-15: August 16-20

Registration is $250 for non-members and $200 for KCR Members. There are also some bursaries available.

For more information or to resister email radiocamp@kootenaycoopradio.com or call us at 250-352-9600

MtSentLMC Birth Announcement: Lucy and Kobo

We are pleased to announce the birth of a bouncing baby laptop: Lucy and her little twin brother, Kobo the E-book reader. Lucy and Kobo join baby brother Ranger, our Ipod Touch, and baby sister Apple, our iPod Nano. These tools are available to staff & students for learning!

Lucy has iTunes installed, and we hope to share many free podcasts from iTunes U with our friends and fellow staff members. Currently, we have over 154 podcasts in the following areas:

1. Brain Stuff
2. Classic French Tales
3. Digital Photography
4. Science Theater
5. Math Dude
6. EcoGeeks
7. Nutrition Diva
8. Stuff You Missed in History Class
9. TED Talks
10. How Stuff Works

There will be more to come! Ranger has several apps loaded, including these ones:

1. Dragon Dictation/Speech & other speech to text
2. Math & Science
3. French and Russian Language learning
4. Foods & Recipe management
5. Fitness
6. Literature & Grammar
7. Psychology & Philosophy
8. Art & Graphics

...and much more! Come sync your iPod with our apps library, then take it home and re-sync it again.