Rogers Youth Education Day; celebrating young people and learning
Posted Sep 25, 2013 5:00 am.
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It’s one day out of the year, but the goal is to leave a lasting impression on a young boy or girl and shine a light on the importance of education.
Wednesday is Rogers Youth Education Day, an initiative of Rogers Communications to help foster learning within Boys and Girls Clubs across Canada.
Canadian youth from the programs our parent company supports, have been invited to 660News and our sister stations, to spend the day with their favourite media personalities.
Young people will get the chance to explore the industry by helping to deliver on-air programming on air and in studio.
Stations taking part will use the hashtag #brighterfuture on Twitter as they take part in this initiative.
For every tweet with the hashtag and Facebook share, Rogers will donate $1 toward the purchase of a mobile tech unit for our 52 partners, to a maximum of $250,000.
The goal is to provide each one of them with technology they otherwise wouldn’t have, outside of school, giving them access to information and providing them with additional help for their school work.
Each unit contains 5 tablets, a Rogers Rocket Mobile Hotspot and LTE connectivity provided by Rogers.
It’s just one of the many programs Rogers leads within Boys and Girls Club.
Another is ‘Rogers Raising the Grade‘.
High-tech computer labs have been left in clubs across the country, providing students with a place to study and do homework.
Patrick Duke is a volunteer with the program.
“Everyone here is willing to help with absolutely everything,” he says. “We do some special stuff too like Tuesday night where we do something a little different, take you out of the classroom and get some extra experience,” he says.
“Students identify things that they’re interested in and we build activities around that,” says Coordinator Jeremiah Arkell. “Because at the very core, students need to have an interest and passion in what they’re doing and once they build that love for learning, hopefully they’ll go out and continue to learn later in life.”
“It’s way better than school because after the first bell goes they kick out out of the computer lab,” laughs grade eight student Cole.
