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PERSIST: Vincent Yang

  By Sandra Lee Over the next few months, we will be featuring our Rover Scouts on social media  (Facebook and Instagram) to showcase the results of our program. To start, we’ve chosen our most recent PERSIST Award winner, Vincent Yang.  Vincent, you’ve been with us for 6 years now. What made you join Scouts […]

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How to Plan Your First Outdoor Event: PMT1 RECAP

By Sandra Lee Ever want to plan something fun with your friends, but feel that you don’t have the capacity or the skills to run an event? Have you ever found yourself stuck with an awesome idea, visualize the potential of your end product, but can barely imagine the steps in between you and that […]

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Recap: Shoreline CleanUp @Garry Point Park

Nearly 60,000 registrants cleaned 2,000+ shorelines across Canada in 2015, removing almost 180,000 kg of litter from more than 3,000 km of shoreline. — Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup As a new member of our Rover Scout Group, Tina Liao was tasked to manage our annual Shoreline Cleanup Project to learn about 2 major aspects of […]

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Video: Shoreline Clean Up!

Produced By Jae-hui Song  Shoreline Clean up is one of our Scout Group’s annual projects that we pursue as our part of keeping our community clean. Every year, we are able to collect bags full of undisposed plastic and recyclable bottles, which actually isn’t an anomaly! Cleaning up shoreline garbage is just as easy as forgetting […]

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[RECAP] Public Speaking Workshop

By Brian Asin A class of Rover Scouts got together early Saturday morning at the Hastings Branch of the Vancouver Public Library to participate in a Public Speaking Workshop. The event was organized by Barton Lui, and facilitated by some of our very talented and insightful Scouters. Everyone got their first go at public speaking […]

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Interview with Gaby Li: New Project Manager with OtherHalf Stem Cell

By Sandra Lee Planning and managing a project is probably the most intimidating thing you could do in our Rover Scout Group. Our Scout Group specializes in training our Rovers the basics, but the lessons that come out of project management will always be different. What is learnt from managing a project will depend on […]