UBC Students Taking Initiative (STI UBC) will be hosting the UBC ELITE 2006 conference entitled ‘Engaging Leadership in Teens’ from May 12-13 at a hotel in Surrey. This becomes the only conference for high school students that is led entirely by University students and provides the youth with the peer to peer interaction. Four hundred youth participants will team up with 50 post secondary youth from all across the Lower Mainland at different points in their law, business, engineering and other career pursuits.
“I think the youth to youth interaction is the most powerful way to motivate youth today. By seeing individuals that were in their place not too long ago excelling, it provides the youth positive role models to look up to,” says Monty Raisinghani, UBC ELITE 2006 Conference Chair.
The first night will consist of teambuilding activities such as the Amazing Race, other competitions, a banquet diner and dance. The following day there will be a series of workshops on various issues, including gang violence, extreme goal setting, and ELITE University. Each workshop is interactive and motivates youth to go out and make a Raisinghani was recently named one of the recipients of the BC Community Achievement Awards for his outstanding work in the community. He says: “I had a chance to attend a similar conference in Grade 9, and quite frankly that has made all the difference up to today. If all youth were to get this opportunity, there will be many more individuals making a difference in our community. I encourage everyone to get involved.”
“We hope to give them an opportunity that we never had because we remember what it was like to be going into university”, says Student Taking Initative executive Inderpreet Dutt. “It’s a chance for these individuals to get motivated and take the road less travelled.
For more information or to register, visit website at www.stiubc.com. Registration deadline is March 31.
Source: The Voice Online (www.voiceonline.com)
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