Category: General Updates

By:  Scouter John Wong As an outdoor activities coordinator together with Hazel Wong and Jeremy Tam within the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group, I take the scouts out into the forests and onto the mountains throughout the year. Because of my Kilimanjaro Summit trip this November, the season started later than usual. However, we made […]

By: Charlie Ni Electronic Arts is one of the most well-known game developers in the world, for many good reasons – these are the masterminds behind iconic titles such as FIFA, NHL, Mass Effect, and The Sims. Contrary to popular belief, amazing video games such as those do not magically appear at your local EB […]

By: Clarice Fu You’ve finished your last exam and can finally breathe a sigh of relief.  The countless hours you spent slaving over your textbooks and those restless nights before each exam…wow, what a stressful couple of weeks!  You’ve finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel and you feel like you’ve conquered […]

By: Charlie Ni On November 21st, eight Rovers from the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group attended a workshop called “Writing Winning Grant Applications”, hosted by Sonja Embree. Ms. Embree has a PhD in Humanistic Psychology.  In the past, she took part in designing a whole self-development related program for Langara College, and was the Vice […]

By: Clarice Fu So you followed your study schedule, made a super 1-page cheat sheet, you’re feeling pretty good about tomorrow, and you’re heading to bed early.  EVERYTHING IS PERFECT.  …Except you had a very restless sleep, realized too late that you didn’t bring a watch (!!!), and you’ve got major butterflies in your stomach […]

By: Clarice Fu It’s the night before your final exam – what do YOU do? Survival tip #3: Be Prepared We should all know this well – “Be Prepared” is the Scout motto.  I apply it to everything that I do whether it be a Beaver field trip, a meeting at work, a weekend getaway, […]

By: Clarice Fu It’s just a few days until your exam, and you’re getting the sinking feeling that you’ll never get through all your notes or finish reading your textbook.  You fall asleep drooling all over your binder, just hoping that somehow, everything you’re supposed to know will diffuse from the pages into your exploding head. On the day of your exam, […]

By: Clarice Fu Are you covered in dust and cobwebs cause you’ve been studying at the library for hours on end, sitting in the same uncomfortable position, breaking only to mad-dash to the bathroom, cursing yourself every time you doze off cause you feel like you can’t cram fast enough for your exam tomorrow??   Every […]

Karina and her finance team announced that we reached our target for popcorn & this quarter's income #RoverResults — 180th PCC Rovers (@PCCRovers) December 10, 2012

By Lawrence Panzo “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Graham Bell If I could describe the soup kitchen in a single term, it would be “organized”.  As we arrived at Salvation Army Vancouver’s Harbour Light Soup Kitchen, an orderly line made up of people from all walks of life, from senior […]