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Screenagers - Follow Up

Screenagers:  Growing up in The Digital Age

The Thursday evening showing of Screenagers was a great success. Thank you to all those involved -

  • The Carson Graham PAC for organizing
  • Carson Graham families, students and Carson Graham Family of Schools for attending
  • Jesse Miller as facilitator
  • Carson Graham students who led a panel in front of a large audience and voiced their opinion.
  • Principal Ian Kennedy for supporting this event.

For further information and resources in connection to cell-phone and electronic use amongst teenagers, please take a look at the Screenagers link.

Screenagers - Growing Up in the Digital Age

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Dear Carson Graham Parents & Guardians,

The Carson Graham PAC Executive is pleased to present to you a screening of the award winning documentary - SCREENAGERS - Growing Up In The Digital Age on April 19, 7:00 pm at Carson Graham Gym.  We are also pleased to have Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality to facilitate the evening.

Cell phone, i-pad, electronic devices - Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time—friction she knew all too well. 

In SCREENAGERS, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to best navigate the digital world and find balance.

Tickets go on sale on Monday, April 2, 8:00 pm until Wednesday night through Eventbrite.  Clicking on this link will take you directly to the sign up page.  There is no cost to attend this event.

We encourage parents/caregivers to bring their children/wards along.

Carson Graham PAC Executive

PAC Scholarships

 CGPAC 2017/2018 Scholarship Awards and Criteria

Background

The PAC is all about giving back to the school community.  Hence, all of the awards are to recognize students that have contributed to the school community.  It recognizes that there are various levels of achievement and, as such, hopes that students from a broad spectrum would/could be eligible.  It also recognizes the maintenance of academic achievement.

We also want to recognize individuals who have excelled in school leadership and contribute but may not have achieved a high academic record for any number of reasons.

 These awards are intended to support post-secondary education and therefore are only payable upon proof of registration at a post-secondary institution.  The recipient has 18 months to have the award fulfilled (covers 2 academic years), after which the award expires.

 Awards

Category 1:  5 x $1,250 STEAM Scholarship Awards

 Recipients have a demonstrable leadership and passion in supporting school-based activities while maintaining a high academic standard in one of the following:

           1.     Science – 1 award

2.     Math – 1 award

3.     Technology or Engineering (all of the various technology or engineering courses, such as foods, textiles, woodwork, etc) – 1 award

4.     Fine Arts – Visual (arts), Performance (music, dance, drama), Digital Arts, etc

      5.     Humanities – languages, history, geography, and the like

Recipients must have:

          1.     Exemplary ongoing history of School Community Service since being at Carson

2.     30+ hours of school-based service

3.     Excelled in one of the above 5 categories in which the candidate receives the award

4.     Have maintained ≥=86% overall average

 Category 2: 2 x $750 PAC School Spirit Scholarship Awards

 A non-academic award that recognizes recipients that contributed the most to building and supporting school spirit over the course of their attendance at Carson and who have demonstrable leadership and passion: 

           1.     in supporting and contributing to school-based activities.

2.     in supporting and/or participating in school sports (e.g. could be a team manager, student coach, athlete or supporter, etc). (This is not a personal achievement award in sports – e.g. most goals, valuable player, etc).

 CGPAC 2016/2017 Scholarship Awards and Criteria.

 Background

 The PAC is all about giving back to the school community. Hence, all of the awards are to recognize students that have contributed to the school community. It recognizes that there are various levels of achievement and as such hopes that students from a broad spectrum would/could be eligible. It also recognizes the maintenance of academic achievement.

 We also want to recognize individuals that have excelled in school leadership and contribution but may not have achieved a high academic record for any number of reasons.

 These awards are intended for supporting post-secondary education and therefore are only payable upon proof of registration in a post-secondary institution. The recipient has 18 months to have the award fulfilled (covers 2 academic years), after which the award expires.

 Awards

Category 1: 4 x $750 PAC STEAM Awards

Recipients have a demonstrable leadership and passion in supporting school based activities while maintaining a high academic standard in one of the following.

     1.     Science or Math - 1 award

2.     Technology or Engineering (all of the various technology and engineering related courses - such as foods, "sewing", woodwork, etc) - 1 award

3.     Fine Arts - Visual (arts), Performance (music, dance, drama), Digital Arts, etc.

4.     Humanities - languages, history , geography and the like.

Recipient must have:

1.   Must have exemplary ongoing history of School Community Service since being at Carson

2.   30+ hours of school based service

3.   Excelled in one of the above 4 categories in which the candidate is receiving the award in.

4.   Have maintained >= 86% overall average

 

Category 2: 2 x $500 - PAC School Spirit Award – 1 each

A non-academic award that recognizes recipients that contributed the most to building and supporting school spirit over the course of their attendance at Carson and who has demonstrable leadership and passion:

1.   in supporting and contributing to school based activities.

2.   in supporting and/or participating in school sports (eg could be a team manager, student coach, athlete, or supporter, etc). (This is not a personal achievement award in sports - eg most goals, valuable player, etc)

 

 

 

 

 

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