November Enrichment newsletter

ENRICHMENT AT THE RIDGE NEWSLETTER #3  

NOVEMBER 2013

For further information on all of the items listed below, please see Ms. Patterson (pattersonka@hdsb.ca) rm 214

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

See Ms. Barsan to sign up

·         SHAD Valley    www.shad.ca

For the summer between Grade 11 and 12

Application DEADLINE is November 27, 2013 ONLINE!

·         Advanced Placement Exam Prep  www.ap.ca

Information meeting Friday November7th in room 213

Exams run from May 5 – May 16^th 2014.

Cost = $89.00 U.S.

·         Student Achievement Awards   www.osstf.on.ca/studentachievementawards

OSSTF Contest: “You Cannot lock up an idea”

Check out the options for media and art!!!!

Deadline – info must be submitted November 22^nd

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

Deadlines: December 9^th/December 18^th  Respectively.

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

·         Waterloo Unlimited         www.unlimited.uwaterloo.ca

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**

·         Write for the Oakville Beaver!

Students can write articles for Tom Dykes column in the Beaver

            See Ms. Patterson or Ms. Stecca for details

·        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 on

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at WHITE OAKS S.S. in Oakville 

6:30 PM in the South-Cafeteria

·         Encounters with Canada    www.encounters-rencontres.ca

Get an application code from Ms. Patterson 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

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

May 5 – 10 2013

Registration takes place in February 2014

Details of courses will be available after Dec. 1, 2011

·         FORUM for Young Canadians  www.forum.ca

Spend one of the following weeks on Parliament Hill:

Focus in on National Politics and Public Affairs.

Feb 23 – 28, 2014/ Mar 2 – 7, 2014/ Mar 23 – Mar 28, 2014

APPLY NOW!  Deadlines Feb 16^th/January 23^rd/February 23^rd

·         Duke of Edinburgh Awards.   www.dukeofed.org

See Mrs. Hills (workroom 226) or Ms. Omeri (room 212) for information

·         Live Different  Hero Holidays     www.livedifferent.com

Trips available from December through August

YOU can make a difference!

·         MEI  www.meiacademy.com

Motivate, Experience, Inspire (MEI)

The world is your classroom.  International studies available