I’ve been asked to build and deliver a 12-week pho­tog­ra­phy train­ing course for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cal­gary and the Cal­gary Board of Edu­ca­tion, Start Out­reach High School, and yes­ter­day we had a very pos­i­tive ini­tial meet­ing to dis­cuss the logis­tics of such a course.  Need­less to say, I’m extremely excited by the pos­si­bil­i­ties this project will present over the com­ing months as both orga­ni­za­tions are really open to new ideas and encour­ag­ing the stu­dents to explore.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Cal­gary pro­vide a dizzy­ing array of pro­grams for Cal­gary youth to pro­vide them with a car­ing and safe envi­ron­ment in which they can grow and learn.  I’ve worked with them on a few dif­fer­ent occa­sions and I’m chuffed to be work­ing with them again!

Start Out­reach pro­vides high school stu­dents with a self-paced learn­ing envi­ron­ment that allows them with the flex­i­bil­ity to com­plete their high school stud­ies with­out the typ­i­cal con­straints of a tra­di­tional school. As we dis­cussed their philoso­phies and learn­ing struc­ture I couldn’t help but think that I wish this sort of thing was around while I was still in school.   I’m really look­ing for­ward to work­ing with them on this project as well!

The project itself is just in the plan­ning stages at the moment so I’ll pro­vide more detail on how the pro­gram will run later. It will be open to stu­dents at the Start Out­reach High School in Bow­ness, with addi­tional spots avail­able to stu­dents at other CBE Out­reach schools if we have space available.