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CANADIAN YOUTH STEERING COMMITTEECANADIAN YOUTH STEERING COMMITTEE
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
What is the CYSC?
What are the CYSC initiatives?
Let’s Talk Science Polar Resource Kit Grassroots
Time Capsule Media
OutlineOutline
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
What is the CYSC?What is the CYSC?
What is the CYSC?What is the CYSC?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
“The International Polar Year Canadian Youth Steering Committee (CYSC) is a group of highly motivated Canadian University students working
to raise interest among Canadian high school students
in Polar issues during the International Polar Year.”
What is the CYSC?What is the CYSC?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
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What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Let’s Talk Science
PROGRAMPartnering with the existing Let’s Talk Science organization to use early career scientists to bring polar research into the classroom.
PARTICIPATIONTeachers: submit IPY requests to Let’s Talk ScienceStudents: Let your teachers know what aspect of the poles interests you
PARTNER: Let’s Talk Science www.letstalkscience.ca
What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Polar Resource Kit
PARTNERS: Canadian Geographic Society www.rcgs.org Students on Ice www.studentsonice.com
PROGRAMJoin potential PRK partners to create, collect and distribute polar resources to teachers, for use in classrooms across Canada. PARTICIPATIONTeachers: Incorporate existing polar lessons into your curricula which meet educational requirements in each territory / province.Students: Get exposed to polar content in the classroom!
What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Grassroots
PARTNERS: Youth Environmental Network www.yen-rej.org Arctic Youth Network www.taiga.net/ayn
PROGRAMTour the “Circumpolar Change Game” around northern communities and provide northern youth with access to microgrants for local IPY initiatives. PARTICIPATIONTeachers: Let us know you want a stop in your northern communityStudents: Learn, hands-on, about climate change and the poles wither CYSC, YEN and AYN volunteers.
What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Time Capsule
PROGRAMEngage Canadian youth to create a snap-shot of the Canadian North during the IPY.
PARTICIPATIONTeachers: Let students know this is their chance to leave an individual legacy in the IPY effort.Students: Submit photos or time capsule items to the CYSC.
What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Media
PROGRAMPromote a consistent IPY message, targeted at youth, while working closely with the IPY Federal Program / Secretariat offices.
PARTICIPATIONTeachers / students: learn how early career scientists are learning about the poles.
PARTNERS: The Weather Network www.weathernetwork.ca CanWest Media www.canwestglobal.com
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Communications
PARTNER: Youth Science Foundation www.ysf.ca
PROGRAMCreate a student / teacher-oriented website and a network of students and teachers to distribute IPY-related materials, if possible in French, English and Inuktitut.
PARTICIPATIONTeachers / students: Contact us to participate n the CYSC and involve your school in the IPY!
What are the CYSC initiatives?What are the CYSC initiatives?
CYSC Initiative Launch:CYSC Initiative Launch:
www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
Octber 19Octber 19thth, 2007, 2007SaskatoonSaskatoon
www.acuns.ca
