Session Topic: Engaging the youth, via education system and otherwise
Convenor: Nogah Kornberg, Winston Neutel, Dan Hocking
Recorder: Winston Neutel
Participants: Winston, Nogah, Dan, Rosemary McGillivray, Miroslav Glavic, Indra Dosanjh, Jonathan Bannell, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Michael Jones, Monty Bertin, Nick Heise, Maria Pontikis, and many others
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Notes:

  Navigate through the Canadian government system

How to use social media to engage

Social media tools as intervention

• identifying engaged people to connect with tohers
• give challenge
  • connected to personal
  • opportunity to succeed and fail
  • passion
• leading by example
• social media made it easy to become engaged

How do we envision youth engaged in civices

Education system. How can we teach youth to be engaged when the teacher should not express an opinion.

Skills

• passion
• abiity to think critically
• debate skills

Role of role models

What is civic engagement?

If they can find one issue they care about, they'll vote, they;ll do something

When they feel rooted/invested in a community, they give something and they get something.

Education: How to create a movement. It's okay if it's not successful

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What Happens Next?