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NLIS 2 August 14, 2003 (Youth Services and Post-Secondary Education) Youth Services and Post-Secondary Education provides $40,000 grant for summer camps The Department of Youth Services and Post-Secondary Education is pleased to have partnered for a second year with the Marine Institute on its summer camp project Marine Pursuits - Making Waves at MI, by providing a grant of $40,000 through the Student Investment Opportunity Corporation (SIOC). "Marine Pursuits is an amazing opportunity to teach high school students about their marine environment and to also assist them in exploring potential career options in the marine and related industries," said Anna Thistle, Minister of Youth Services and Post-Secondary Education. Approximately 80 Newfoundland and Labrador high school students in Grades 9 to 11 attended this year�s four week-long camps held during July and August at the Marine Institute in St. John�s and at Memorial University�s Bonne Bay Marine Station in Norris Point. Marine Pursuits participants have been exposed to a variety of career options through hands-on learning activities in the field, in the lab and through demonstrations in such areas as marine engineering, nautical science, marine safety and survival, food technology, aquaculture, marine biology, oceanography and coastal zone management. Media contact:
Photo # 1: Youth Services and Post-Secondary Education Minister Anna Thistle and Leslie O'Reilly, executive director of the Marine Institute, with participants from the Marine Pursuits - Making Waves at MI camp held in St. John�s from August 11 - 15. 2003 08 14 10:05 a.m. |
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