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QLEAD 2013: Connect Minds | Challenge Limits | Create Opportunities QLEAD 2013 CONNECT MINDS | CHALLENGE LIMITS | CREATE OPPORTUNITIES The Queen's Leadership, Excellence, and Development Conference brings together 120 student leaders each year to Kingston Ontario, the home of the prestigious Queen's School of Business. QLEAD 2013 is taking place from November 7-10 this year. We are contacting you because your school has been identified as a centre for student leadership. This Year's Theme Connect Minds • Networking opportunities with sponsors and student leaders from across the country • Thought-provoking speakers Challenge Limits • Case challenge with formal presentations in front of sponsors • Engaging workshops Create Opportunities • Develop your leadership skills and further your business knowledge • Gain exposure to Queen's Commerce/Queen's University What we need you to do Please encourage all student leaders and those interested in attending Queen's University/Queen's Commerce to apply. We will be notifying successful candidates within the next few weeks! All links to our website, application form, and email contact are provided below. Help us shape the youth leaders of tomorrow! WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT QLEAD? Visit our website at http://comsoc.queensu.ca/qlead, where you can explore our past speakers, sponsors, and interactive workshops to learn what to expect from QLEAD 2013. You can also explore our executive profiles to learn more about us, and begin the first step of QLEAD 2013: Connect Minds. Feel free to get in touch with us with any questions that you may have at qlead.delegates@gmail.com! Applications are now posted: http://bit.ly/QLEAD2013. VISIT US ONLINE Follow on Twitter    Friend on Facebook    Forward to Friend  Copyright © Queen's Leadership, Excellence, and Development Conference, All rights reserved. QLEAD 2013 | November 7-10, 2013 qlead.delegates@gmail.com unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences  Queen's Commerce Society

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October Enrichment Newsletter

ENRICHMENT AT THE RIDGE NEWSLETTER #2  

OCTOBER 2013 (Think PINK!)

For further information on all of the items listed below, please see

 Ms. Patterson (pattersonka@hdsb.ca) rm 214

·        Loran Awards (scholarships)!!!!!

Applications are online  http://www.loranaward.ca/sef/page/id/15.html

DEADLINE –  to PCC by October 7^th!

See Ms. Anstett for details

·        TEDx Youth Conference in Toronto http://tedxyouthtoronto.ca/apply/

Science Centre – Saturday November 16^th

Space is limited and going FAST – Register by October 11^th!!!!

·        Waterloo Unlimited   

www.unlimited.uwaterloo.ca

Grade 12 program, November 2013

Roadmap to research
November 13th - 15th, 2013

3 day program (Wednesday through Friday)

Out-of-town arrivals: Tuesday evening

Application deadline: October 7, 2013
Cost: Program fee: $300

Supervised overnight shared hotel accommodation: $180**

**includes HST

Grade 11 program, March 2014

Design theme           March 10th - 14th , 2014

5 day program: dates may coincide with some school boards' March Break.

(Out-of-town arrivals: Sunday evening)

Application deadline: Dec 13, 2013

Cost: Program fee: $450

Supervised overnight shared hotel accommodation: $300**

Grade 10 program, May 2014

The theme of "Change"        May 11th - 15th, 2014

Application deadline: March 10 2014

Cost: Program fee: $450

Supervised overnight shared residence accommodation: $160**

·        SHAD Valley    www.shad.ca

For the summer between Grade 11 and 12

Information at lunch on October 17th– listen for announcments!!!

Application DEADLINE is November 27(and December 12, 2013) ONLINE! 

This is competitive!  See Ms. P for more info.

·        YMCA Peace Medallion – Nominations  www.ymcaofoakville.org

Deadline – Friday October 25, 2013

For more info. See Ms. Patterson

·        Math  and Computer Contests  http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~barsanl/

See Ms. Barsan to sign up.

·        Student Achievement Awards – Marion Drysdale Awards

www.osstf.on.ca/studentachievementawards

OSSTF Contest: “You Cannot Lock up an Idea”

Check out the options for media and art!!!!  Deadline in November!!!!

·        Lead America  www.lead-america.org

American based leadership program for grades 6 – 11 only

Various locations including Washington, NYC, Atlanta, NYC and Boston.

You must be nominated – so see Ms. Patterson!

IRHS Nomination deadline is November 1^st

·        Encounters with Canada    www.encounters-rencontres.ca

Get an application code from Ms. P to register ONLINE

A week in Ottawa at the Terry Fox Centre with students from all over Canada.

An opportunity to study one of eleven subthemes:

Arts and culture                                                   Medicine and Health

Business and Entrepreneurship                        Sports and Fitness

Canada Remembers                                             Law

International Affairs                                            Science and Technology

Journalism and Communications                       Social Sciences

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

·        Advanced Placement Exam Prep  www.ap.ca

Listen for announcements in November

Exams run from May 5 – May 16^th 2014.         Cost = $89.00 U.S.

·        House of Commons /Senate Page Programs www.parl.gc.ca          

Deadlines: December 9^th/early December  Respectively.

You must be graduating this year and planning to attend a University in the Ottawa area (Carleton, Ottawa, St. Paul’s, etc)

·        E=MC2  http://esu.queensu.ca/programs/emc-res/index.php

May 4 – 9 2014                       Registration in February 2014

Details of courses will be available after Dec. 1, 2013

Look for information on PROCESS on the NEXT Newsletter

Public Speaking Contest information for 2014!

All Secondary Students are invited to participate in this 2014 HDSB Public Speaking event.  Speeches must be 3 – 6 minutes in length.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Ms. Patterson 
Registration:  Contact Robin Coverdale at coverdaler@sympatico.ca
The event will be held onTuesday, April 15, 2014 at WHITE OAKS S.S. in Oakville 

6:30 PM in the South-Cafeteria