Day: May 6, 2013

Vancouver Aquarium Work Experience Register NOW

Neeru Parmar
If you’re interested in volunteering or doing work experience at the Vancouver Aquarium
during the next school year then you need to apply NOW
                     Registration is  online on our website at www.vanaqua.org/summer-wex

Students do not need to send in a cover letter and resume, but have to fill out the online registration form and answer question.

  List of available placements is on the website
The work experience placements will be available to all youth between 14-18 years old.  Preference will be given to students in higher grades, due to requirements for specific placements. Students can use these hours for volunteer hours or work experience hours
 There will be a set of core training that all students will have to attend before their training for their specific placement
 Students can apply to 1 placement only.  Choose multiple groups within 1 placement, but apply to only 1 placement.  Students will really have to decide which placement is best suited for their skills, interest and availability
Process will still be competitive with group or phone interviews for some placements

This is highly competitive….they will accept the first 200 applicants for 150 positions …OR you  will have to wait until June 2014.

 

If you apply and get accepted, please let Ms. Parmar know !

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Posted by Ms. Neeru Parmar, nparmar@nvsd44.bc.ca

SFU Aquatics summer camp needs volunteers

Neeru Parmar
AQUATIC CAMPS

Volunteers in our aquatic camps must be comfortable with the water and willing to actively participate in all activities with the children both in and out of the water.
H2O Wonders
This is a full day camp in which campers aged
8-12 will participate in a wide variety of water based recreational activities. They will be exposed to the variety of different aquatic opportunities such as diving, kayaking, lifesaving and more!
Under the Sea
This is a half day camp in which campers aged
5-8 will be swimming, kayaking, snorkeling and more. Volunteers should be comfortable in the water and able to swim 2 laps of the pool. This camp will be done in conjunction with another half day camp.
AWSI VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
Red Cross Swim Lessons
These lessons run from 3:30 – 5:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays from July to August. Volunteers will be assisting our WSI swim instructors in teaching children ages 3-13. This is a great opportunity for those individuals who have completed their AWSI to experience in the pool. Must hold AWSI certification

.Annette Yung

Programmer of Volunteer Services

SFU Summer Camps
778-782-4307
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Posted by Ms. Neeru Parmar, nparmar@nvsd44.bc.ca

Women in Science at the SPACE CENTER Meet Roberta Bondar and more!

Neeru Parmar
H.R.MACMILLAN SPACE CENTER 
June 16, 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova climbed into the Vostok 6 Soviet space craft on her way to becoming the first woman in space.
In honour of this event, we present
Women in Science
Inspiring tomorrow’s leaders
May 9, 7 pm – Finding Your Path to Engineering and Science: From Taxidermy to Robots – Maxime Chin
Animal Biology Mechanical Engineering:  two different degrees, one successful path
Maxime Chin is a UBC graduate who will begin her career with Shell in May 2013 as a production engineer. 
June 13, 7pm – Transforming Human-Robot Interaction – Dr. Elizabeth Croft
Finding ways to help humans and robots to work together.
Dr. Croft is a professor at UBC; NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, BC-Yukon at UBC; and leader of the WWEST program for women in engineering, science and technology. 
Enter to win:
May 9- two tickets to the keynote speech by Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first female astronaut, (May 11, 9:00 am) at the Creating Connections conference
June 13 – special private tour of the TRIUMF facility at UBC, TRIUMF is one of the world’s leading subatomic physics laboratories.
All sessions will be at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30)
Admission by donation
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Posted by Ms. Neeru Parmar, nparmar@nvsd44.bc.ca