Are you interested in pursuing a career in the health sciences? If so, check out Operation Med School! This Saturday, the one-day conference which aims to inspire and inform youth who are interested in a future career in medicine will be held at the U of C Health Sciences Building. Last year, OMS inspired…
Hi everyone! This is the first post of a new series that Youth Are Awesome is doing, called “Dialogues”. Every month, we will post a short blog post about a controversial topic that occurred in the previous month, and we’ll have an open discussion/debate in the comments section of this post! Without any further ado,…
It’s a Saturday morning. I’m in my bed, snoozing away. All of a sudden, I’m startled and I wake up due to a terrible ringing sound. I pick up the phone with annoyance, and I’m appalled when they ask for an appointment at Chatters hair salon. Turns out it was the wrong number. I grumpily…
Who would like to move to Yukon? Surprisingly, from 1896 to 1899, more than 100,000 people migrated to Yukon, which at the time was considered as an unprecedented amount of immigration. Why did all these people all of a sudden move to the Yukon Territory, I hear you ask? We know they have great potatoes,…
In our world today, millions of diabetics lead normal lives, different from everyone else only in that they may need insulin injections sometimes. We may not think about it much today, but there was an incredible upheaval behind the invention of insulin treatment, a story that is distinctly Canadian. One of the major functions of…
You’d be surprised at all the different ways that you can do so.
A fullscreen smartphone with no home button, costing over $1,300. Is it really worth it?
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies” – George R. R. Martin
For my entire childhood, I’ve associated the term “Artificial Intelligence” with Wall-E and Star Wars characters. But no longer. AI is not out beyond the horizon anymore, but rather it is a very plausible reality. Countries are flooding AI companies with federal grants. Computing power in our world is doubling every 18 months. In fact,…
With many summer commitments, like summer school and SHAD, coming to an end, youth in Calgary are starting to find more time on their hands and starting to head out to the movies with friends more often. I personally have already watched a good number of movies this summer with both friends and family, and…
It’s been 150 years.
“Love cannot exist without fear. If the thought of losing someone doesn’t scare the sh*t out of you, then it’s not love.” – Penelope Ward
I know it’s not a word – or is it? Welcome to the world of languages.
Woolly Mammoths In Your Backyard.
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to go to Toronto to compete in the Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly (SOMA)! I was among 20 excited students on our Model UN team who departed for Toronto on Tuesday morning and tiredly returned to Calgary on Saturday evening. I wasn’t expecting to learn much from…