Youth en Route is excited to announce that we’ve been awarded two Canada Summer Jobs student positions, each for 12 weeks. One position is for a student communicator who can help tell our story in words and pictures to our communities using our web site and social media; in our annual report and more. The…
Youth en Route is very excited to be exhibiting at the Alberta Bike Show at the BMO Center at Stampede Park on March 16 and 17. We’ll be selling Raffle tickets to help fund our school programs. We always tell kids to ride whatever kind of bike they want to. So, we’re making our raffle…
We’ve asked our Cyclists in Residence to share what they’ve learned after three months working in schools from Youth en Route. First up, Rob Crooks shared his thoughts with us. Gaining skills in real time After reflecting on a very rewarding three months as a CIR with Youth en Route, a number of things stand…
As Giving Tuesday is coming up very fast, we are hoping that you are feeling ready to kick off the most wonderful time of the year by participating in this charitable initiative. Approaching to its 11th year of celebration, Giving Tuesday continues to be “the world’s largest generosity movement,” encouraging people to do good deeds…
Marcel* was one of the last of his classmates to try the trike. Functionally blind, Marcel, an easy-going, but somber, student, was happy just sitting on the side of the gym watching his ESII classmates at St. Mary’s High School learn to cycle. Youth en Route was at St. Mary’s for a week in October to…
We are excited to announce the numbers of our first Roll Out Carbon Week. With 389 participants throughout the city, 9493 KM travelled and 1747KG of CO2 prevented from being dispensed to our environment, we call our Roll Out Carbon Week a great success! This challenge has contributed to the growing biking culture in Calgary…
