Committed to sharing their time, energy and resources to build a more equitable society

In order to agree to take part in training sessions, learn another language and raise close to $30,000 to fund a humanitarian trip, and this for a period of a year and a half, you have to firmly believe in the positive impact of your actions. It is unquestionably this strong conviction that guided the efforts of the 13 students at Centre éducatif St-Aubin who participated in the Solidarité Baie-St-Paul/Guatemala 2009 project. The students recently returned from their three-week mission in Guatemala with the feeling of a job well done but more importantly with a desire to share their experience and encourage other people, young and old alike, to also do their part in building a more equitable society.
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Committed to raising awareness among young people of the beauty and frailty of nature

We have all had individuals as classmates who were sometimes… surprising. But when the classmate in question is a corn snake, a bearded dragon or perhaps a dwarf caiman, you have every reason to be amazed. This is exactly the type of fellow member of the Secondary 1 science and technology class at Le Mistral high school in Mont-Joli. In total, 300 specimens of 80 different species make up the Mistral-Sauvage mini-zoo, a project established by teacher Claude Desrosiers with the help of an extensive team of budding naturalists. And as the crowning achievement, the Mistral Sauvage even obtained a licence from the ministry of wildlife granting it the official right to be called a zoo.
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Committed to sharing and discovering the world of social commitment

“Thank you for the happiness you have brought to the faces of my children… for the example young people like you set for others and for the hope that your actions have brought!” These simple words, brimming with gratitude, bear witness to the tremendous impact the students at Saint-Paul high school made when they set up their “A new kind of Christmas hamper” project. These young people literally took on the role of Santa Claus and, thanks to their commitment, enabled six families - and more importantly their children - to spend an unforgettable Christmas.
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Committed to making physical activity a means of achieving academic success

Rain or shine, there’s an energetic blue and red troop that walks at a quick pace along the banks of the Saint-Charles River. Most likely people training for the Olympics you may say? Not at all. Training yes, but this is training that 38 students in Secondary 1 at Cardinal-Roy high school took up last October as a way of achieving academic success. And believe it or not, it actually works! Greater concentration in class, a stronger sense of pride and more self-esteem, an improvement in cooperation and the respect of peers, the effects are manifold and palpable. Even the rate of absenteeism has decreased and class expulsions have dropped by 50%.
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Committed to arousing the spirit of initiative and creativity of students

When teachers at Pionniers high school’s Pavillon Laure-Gaudreault set up the Casino Dinner project three years ago they wanted to find an original way of enhancing the learning of their Secondary 3 students. The activity became a sort of extracurricular adventure that is at once complete, tangible and above all enriching and the teachers’ gamble definitely paid off. The students, who were in charge of preparing the meal, planning the logistics and hosting the event, had to give all they had in order to keep to a schedule of only six days for organizing the event and so be ready to welcome their guests – who numbered more than 120 last December.
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