Event:
Fifty-two of Canada’s brightest high school students will converge on Carleton University for this year’s SHAD Valley program. Some of the highlights that are open to the media include:
- Shad City at Mooney’s Bay in which participants will build a giant city made of sand (Thursday, July 20)
- Various workshops ranging from intriguing projects made from cardboard to a workshop on space exploration
- Guest speakers such as Carleton University Psychology Professor Brian Little speaking about “Strange Creatures in Shad Valley: The Nature and Nurture of Human Personalities”
- Exhibition featuring innovative participant projects
When:
The program runs from Sunday July 2 to Saturday July 29, 2006
Where:
For details, please visit web site at shad.carleton.ca or www.shad.ca
Background:
Over the past 17 years at Carleton University, the award-winning Shad Valley program has proven to be a life-changing experience for senior high school students interested in pushing their creative and intellectual capacity to the limit. Shad Valley is a program based on the values of creativity, excellence, community, diversity, and responsibility built upon an academic foundation of mathematics, science, engineering, and entrepreneurship. This four-week residential program encourages students to open their minds and explore new career opportunities. Students are immersed in workshops, lectures, projects, and recreational activities that increase self-confidence and develop such skills as problem solving, effective communication, leadership and teamwork.
Shad International is a Canadian not-for-profit organization based in Waterloo, Ontario. The Shad Valley program was launched nationally in 1981, and currently boasts a network of close to 10,000 Shad Valley alumni including 16 Rhodes scholars, more than 200 benefactors, and thousands of educators at schools nation-wide.
Yesterday, the Director of Shad Valley Carleton, Dr. Adrian Chan, from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering was awarded a Carleton University Employee Recognition Spirit Award for his leadership on various projects including being a volunteer faculty advisor for the Carleton chapter of Engineers Without Borders and director of the Carleton SHAD project. Under his guidance, at a national competition that follows the SHAD program in which students develop and unveil new products, Carleton Shads took home the prestigious RBC Cup two years in a row.
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For more information:
Anika Ahmed
Public Relations Contact, Shad Valley Carleton University
Anika.ahmed@gmail.com
613-355-5366
Lin Moody
Media Relations Officer
Carleton University
613-520-2600 ext. 8705
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 in Media Advisories
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