P.E.I. students to attend SHAD

Six Prince Edward Island high school students are among 801 teens taking part in one of this country’s top incubators for youth innovation and entrepreneurship.

The students will be participating in SHAD, the unique and award-winning Canadian enrichment program that has helped develop the raw skills and talents of close to 16,000 youth since 1980.

Students attending from P.E.I. are Madeline Hamill, Albany, Grade 11, Kinkora Regional High School, University of Waterloo; Léo Han, Stratford, Grade 11, Charlottetown Rural High School, Western University; Charlotte Armstrong, Charlottetown, Grade 11, Charlottetown Rural High School, Memorial University; Mary Kate Picketts, Kensington, Grade 12, Kensington Intermediate Senior High School, Ryerson University; Grace Robertson, Souris, Grade 10, Souris Regional High School, Lakehead University; Abby Hackett, Tignish, Grade 10, Westisle Composite High School, Carleton University.

SHAD has helped produce 32 Rhodes Scholars in that time and many other leading innovators and entrepreneurs are part of the SHAD Network including Michele Romanow, a serial entrepreneur and television personality on CBC’s Dragons’ Den.

SHAD offers bursaries to students with financial need and recently announced a partnership with Pathways to Education to help students from more marginalized communities attend the program. A record 13 Canadian university campuses will host to SHAD this summer.

Students live in residence for the month of July at SHAD. They attend lectures and workshops from top faculty focused around STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math). Experiential learning is also a big part of SHAD as students are presented with a theme or social problem every summer that they learn at the beginning of the program.