Exchanges
Since its founding year The Academy has participated in a YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada exchange.
The Academy invites students to participate in an exchange to help form strong links between their own communities and communities elsewhere in Canada. Through the YMCA’s Youth Exchanges Canada program our young people are twinned with peers from another province or territory.
Youth have the opportunity to:
- Explore other regions of Canada,
- Live in another community,
- Meet new people,
- Explore cultural diversity &
- Host peers in their home-town.
They learn from each other, grow to respect different cultures, develop communication and leadership skills while forming a greater sense of Canadian identity.
The exchange typically occurs near the end of second semester. Students fundraise to host their visiting peers. The Government of Canada through the YMCA Youth Exchanges Program pays transportation costs and in some cases accommodations i.e. common stay.
Students are eligible for one exchange during their 4 years at The Academy. Typically students participate in one of their senior years.
Objectives of the exchange:
- Explore other regions of Canada,
- Initiate community service projects,
- Live in another community,
- Meet new people,
- Explore Canada’s cultural diversity
- Experiential learning supporting their class curricula
- Opportunity for co-curricular culminating projects in their Academic courses
- Fundraise
- Host out of province students
Stay posted for the location of our next youth exchange…..
Visit the YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada Website
Former Exchanges have been:
- Spring 2009 – Arviat, Nunavut,
- Spring 2008 – Medicine Hat, Alberta
- Spring 2006 – Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
- Spring 2004 – Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
