Every year, November is when young authors get writing to finish a novel before the month is over. The novel can be on any topic, according to NaNoWriMo presenters. So what does NaNoWriMo stand for? It means National Novel Writing Month. A friend of mine participates yearly, and she truly enjoys it – the participant…
Tommy Crisp may look to be your normal 11-year-old boy, but through the Calgary Cerebral Palsy Association and the Cerebral Palsy Association in Alberta, Tommy has raised over $2,000 for his 9-year-old brother Kale, who suffers from a form of cerebral palsy. Recently, Tommy was recognized by Kids Up Front Calgary and Youth Central’s Pay It Forward…
“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” -Thomas A. Edison Whenever you wake up in the morning, you experience something unlike any other. It’s like there’s a metal chain around you that prevents you from doing what you want. You can’t move, nor are you capable of completing tasks. To…
Elif Bilgin, a 16 year old from Istanbul, Turkey has accomplished creating bio-plastic from banana peels. Driven to find alternatives to petroleum produced plastics, Elif used trial and error over a period of two years with 10 failed experiments before coming up with a plastic that could retain its quality and structure long term. Despite…
My last post talked about taking care of your body in preparation for those dreaded exams to keep you preforming at your best. The most vital VITAL part of this is your brain (duh!) because that’s what you’re going to be using on the test. While studying is definitely the #1 thing you can do…
Exam season is here, and most people are becoming infected with a flu that no vaccination will prevent. Feelings of hopelessness or becoming tired of studying are the usual symptoms for the exam season blues. We’ve all been there at some point, and it’s not fun. (That’s probably why you’re reading this instead of studying,…
For many of us, it’s the time of year for final exams. Are you ready? Because of the magnitude of stress that coincides with the exam break, here are some tips to get you in shape for acing those tests! Don’t be afraid to ask for help. For those of us who are shy or relatively…
It’s that time of year again: everyone at school is stressing about exam schedules, worrying about their averages and cramming for exams. Every year is pretty much the same, except this year I’m in Grade 12, and the stress level of my peers is definitely skyrocketing. Diploma prep. University applications. Making the grade. These are…
Earlier this week, Sophie, a 7-year-old girl, wrote to Australia’s national science organization CSIRO, asking if they could work on making a dragon for her. Yes, a dragon. The letter read as follows: Hello Lovely Scientist My name is Sophie and I am 7 years old. My dad told me about the scientists at the…
1. “Do or do not, there is no try” -Yoda In my opinion, this is undoubtedly one of the best quotes to date (of course, by a non-fiction character). We experience many different things during our lifetime, both good and bad. For some odd reason, whenever something doesn’t go our way, or we perhaps…
All of us have dreams. Whether they are practical or not, they are our heart’s desires. They are what we crave for, they make life worth it. But what’s the point if you are living to impress others, neglecting what your heart yearns for? Neglecting what you were made to do, neglecting those talents that have…
http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day.html In the fast-paced world of today, it’s much too easy to find ourselves lost. Not necessarily in terms of which road to turn onto and what exit to take (though in Calgary that’s never an easy feat either). What I mean is the confusion of what is now, what is the past, what is…
Just think, in a couple of days, thousands of students will be back to hitting the books after a well-deserved Christmas break. I don’t think that I’m the only one who notices that students aren’t as focused and ready to work as most teachers and parents would like to see. How can we beat the obvious lag…
It’s 2014! You know what that means… New Year’s Resolutions all around. After all, an new year can bring a new you, right? Maybe not. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind people who make resolutions, and I don’t hate the idea of them, but in all honesty, who actually manages to stick with them…
Every year without fail most people I know make serious and purposeful proclamations of the phenomenal advancements to themselves and for themselves that they will be making in the new year. Yet next Christmas, it tends to be unlikely that they’ll have kept that gym membership, continued to eat plenty of leafy green vegetables, or…