Student Congress 2008
April 4, 2008

Are you interested in being heard?

Are you currently a grade 10-12 student attending a public, independent or band school? Would you like the opportunity to share your ideas with other students from across the province? Are you interested in speaking directly with the Minister of Education on important issues?

The second annual Student Congress took place this past April 4 in Vancouver. 130 students from across B.C. joined B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor Stephen Point, Education Minister Shirley Bond, and distinguished presenters.

Sustainability was one of the key issues. Students listened to the views of Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Robinson and then presented a range of their own ideas to Minister Bond.

One of the student delegates summarized the inspirational tone of the discussion when she suggested that her generation needed to make it unacceptable to be anything other than green. Others pointed out that the same fundamental shift in perspective had been accomplished by their parents’ generation in terms of making smoking uncool and seatbelt use part of people’s daily lives.