Here at AEA, we advocate for open and accessible education by promoting awareness and raising funds for educational resources and institutions in underdeveloped areas of the world.

In addition to providing education, we also want to promote and encourage youth leadership.

BC School Sports is an organization of over 450 public and independent member schools in British Columbia. It is the governing body for school sport and coordinates and delivers opportunities with our member schools for interschool competitions in 18 activities to over 117,000 student-athletes each year. BCSS delivers 61 provincial championships each year to over 16,000 student-athletes, recognized as the pinnacle of interscholastic competition.

BCEdAccess Society is an entirely volunteer-run organization serving families of students with disabilities and complex learners all over the province of British Columbia. Our parent support group has over 1600 members and stories shared on our private discussion board daily illustrate the depth of the challenges families face in pursuing equitable access to education in BC schools.

Our History:

BCEdAccess began when a small group of parents gathered together in a Facebook group around the end of 2014. Tracy Humphreys set up this group because although she was able to find many great organizations of parents working together to support specific disabilities, there was none that gathered all of the parents together to discuss the issues that all of these groups have in common in trying to access education for their children. The group was fortunate to have some very strong and long-term parent advocates join as founding members, setting the tone and direction of the organization that has continued to today.

What we do:

On November 21, 2018, seeing that the need for this group is ongoing, we incorporated the BCEdAccess Society. Our Constitution and Purpose states:

“We champion and support children and youth who have disabilities and who are complex learners to reach their full potential in BC education, and in all aspects of their lives.
This is achieved through supporting families, sharing information, providing education to families, allies, professionals and students, providing community engagement and awareness, and other activities to promote equitable access to education and inclusion for all.”

<span style="font-weight: 400">Our program is called BLUSH: Bold Learning for Understanding Sexual Health, run by Vancouver Coastal Health.  Our team of Youth Educators (age 17-23) deliver workshops on Sexual Health, Healthy Relationships, and Media Literacy to high school students across Vancouver and Richmond.</span><span style="font-weight: 400">
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Books For Me aims to promote a love of reading and improved literacy by providing elementary school children with the opportunity to choose books to keep and build their personal library. We run monthly programs in elementary schools and community centres in Vancouver and support book drives to collect gently used books for our program.  We are a 100% volunteer run charity and to date have given away over 100,000 books.

Serving Vancouver since 2011, we provide licensed care for toddlers and preschoolers

Seeks to increase student interest and involvement in STEM by engaging them in hands-on. Enhance the ability of Robotics by learning together.

We set a Junior Robotics Competition every year, and help G-K12 school to setup their robotics club.

CISV International is a global organization dedicated to educating and inspiring for peace through building inter-cultural friendship, cooperation and understanding. We offer an exciting blend of seven international camp-based, family exchange and local community programmes. We aim to help our participants develop the skills they need to become informed, responsible and active global citizens and make a difference in their communities and the world.

The Cedar Science Camp is an ongoing UBC initiative to promote science education to Aboriginal youth (aged 8-12) within the lower mainland. Cedar is supported by the UBC Faculties of Science and Land and Food Systems at UBC.

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<p class="cmsmasters_heading">As a result of globalization and educational research, the “image of a child” has changed from that of an empty vessel or thirsty sponge to that of a “competent and unique individual” bringing her own strengths and learning competencies to the table. This in turn has brought about a shift from theories of learning that support the top-down transfer of select information to theories that support the co-construction of knowledge in the classroom and beyond. We believe literature is the best conduit with which to construct such knowledge.</p>

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<div>This shift is reflected in the philosophical base of all programs offered at the Lyceum.</div>
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<div>At the Lyceum we choose to concentrate on the perceptual dimension of learning in an effort to challenge binary thinking and encourage exploration of “possibilities.” Nurturing a lens through which to view personal, local, and global interactions helps children develop guiding principles when approaching problematic situations inherent in a diverse society.</div>
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ClimateScience aims to empower people to make real long-term solutions to climate change actionable through climate education. We hope our way of covering solutions makes people excited to contribute to clean energy, sustainable agriculture, and other global-scale sustainability issues – beyond reusing their plastic bags. We believe education is the most powerful tool in the fight against climate change.

A coding camp started by Timila, a high school student in BC, seeking to spread her knowledge of coding and programming to anyone and everyone, but specifically targeted at middle school level students.