Notes: EEAY Sharing Meeting October 12

Here are some news/ideas/links generated from our meeting. Next meeting January 18! International Polar Year (2007-2009) coming up:

• many educational opportunities
• Bob Van Dijken (our President!) is the Yukon IPY "Node" Coordinator
• launch for Canada March 1
• International website www.ipy.org
• Canada website www.ipycanada.ca
• Youth steering committee www.ualberta.ca/~ipy/YSC
• Educapoles www.educapoles.org

National Outdoor Leadership School, Yukon

• Offering wilderness leadership courses (and scholarships) to people of all ages
• NOLS has some excellent learning resources for leaders available from Yukon office
• Info at www.nols.edu/courses/locations/yukon/

Environment Yukon learning resources

• Yukon environmental board game BIGFOOT/littlefoot is now ready for distribution to schools
• this and other resources outlined in online brochure

EECOM National Conference and environmental education Leadership Clinic

• Begins in Nova Scotia October 17 (conference info)
• Leadership Clinic brings reps from jurisdications all over Canada to assist them in building capacity for advancing EE in their regions
• the North is represented by a pan-Northern team of two members from each territory
• sign up now for the May 2007 EECOM conference in Kananaskis Alberta: Trails to Sustainabity...limited registration!

Envirothon

• EEAY has promoted this competition for high school students, part of a North American program (Canadian site)
• in spring 2006, several Yukon teams were involved in training and the final "competition"
• meetings going on now to confirm 2006-2007 program