Education
The choice of what to do after graduating from high school is hardly ever an easy one. Throw in a global pandemic and heaps of uncertainty, and the class of 2020 (and beyond) are in a bit of a pickle. Enter...
Nothing will make you regretful about the past (and hopeful for the future) quite like seeing the winners of Face of Today’s inaugural Youth Startup Challenge. At the same age that you were trading Pokemon cards and slowly expanding your palate...
Life Story: As captain of the UBC women’s soccer team, Madison Guy led the Thunderbirds to the 2015 national championship while laying the foundation for her business. She’d won a scholarship to play for the T-Birds, a prize that covered...
Life Story: “My mom always says that instead of grabbing a hockey stick, I grabbed a microphone,” jokes Frankie Cena, who grew up in Burnaby. In Grade 7, Cena entered a mandatory public speaking competition and wound up snagging second...
Alexandre Paré went to SFU on a track-and-field scholarship in 2010 as an 18-year-old from Sherbrooke, Quebec, with no ability to speak English. It turns out that was a relatively minor hurdle. While in Quebec in the summer of 2013, Paré suffered...
Langara College’s Beyond 49 campaign—celebrating 49 years of the school on 49th Avenue in Vancouver—has come to a close with a total of $2.9 million raised for student scholarships and other initiatives. “Over the last 18 months, our community has come together in so...
The organizers of the Science Fair Foundation of British Columbia’s Youth Innovation Showcase are setting a good example for their participants—due to the COVID-19 outbreak, they’ve shifted the applications, workshops, and final event online. “It’s sort of been a blessing in...
Hunter Macdonald made a life-changing discovery while studying mechanical engineering at Montreal’s McGill University and interning for NB Power in New Brunswick: he didn’t want to spend his career writing reports about hydroelectric dams. “I realized that I needed to...
BCBusiness +TUEX Education More than 20 years ago, Alfred Chien was working as a banker and tutoring 30 or 40 students on the side. He remembers the day he received a call from a single mother who needed academic help for her grade 9 son. “After I talked to her for 15...
BCBusiness +Trinity Western University Trinity Western University’s (TWU) school of business is caring for students, encouraging diversity and taking the time to build a values-based approach to teaching and learning—and the world is noticing. Of the business school’s 1,000 entries, nearly...