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We've been given a truly golden opportunity to run our first ever Youth Environmental Ambassadors Program in collaboration with Students On Ice, on their arctic expedition this July. There will be about 80 high school students on the expedition and we'll get the opportunity to deliver our environmental education program to them. But we need your help!

We need to raise the funds to cover our costs on the expedition. So we've just created an IndieGoGo crowd funding campaign.

We'd be so grateful if you could make a donation to our campaign. There are perks for each level of donation so you'll get something to say THANK YOU for your support.

Click on the image of our campaign website to visit our campaign webpage and donate. And please pass the link on to all of your friends, family and colleagues. :o) The farther we reach out to people for support, the more likely we are to meet our funding goal.

Thank you for your support!

Shelley

SOI Arctic Images on display at Winterlude

Students On Ice, our collaborating organization that we'll be running our first ever Youth Environmental Ambassadors Program with this July, has a small display of beautiful image at Confederation Park in Ottawa, during Winterlude. The images, a joint display by Students On Ice (SOI) and the Canadian Museum of Nature, are of SOI's arctic expedition.

So if you'd like to get a sense of what we're in for this July, head out down to Winterlude, grab a beavertail and a hot chocolate, and check out display. And while you're at it, don't forget to ogle over the incredible ice sculptures too! :o)

Here I am beside the Students On Ice/Canadian Museum of Nature arctic expedition display.

The inaugural Youth Environmental Ambassadors Program... arctic bound in July!

We just been given a fabulous opportunity to launch the Youth Environmental Ambassadors Program (YEAP). In July, BIOSPHERE Environmental Education, in partnership with Frame of Mind, will be running the very first YEAP with Students On Ice!

Students On Ice (SOI), founded and run by Geoff Green, is an award-winning organization providing unique educational ship-based expeditions to the arctic and antarctic. SOI provides students, educators and scientists from around the world with incredible, inspiring educational opportunities which help them foster a new understanding and respect for the planet.

In order the run the inaugural YEAP, we'll need to raise the funds for our expedition costs.  This is epic opportunity that we can't miss out on and so we're in the process of putting together a crowd funding campaign to raise the $24,000 needed to launch the YEAP on the 2014 Students on Ice arctic expedition. We'll need your support. We hope that you'll send our call for support far and wide.  Your support isn't just for this expedition. By launching the YEAP, it will give us the experience, photographs and proof of concept that we need to seek funding through major grants to put the YEAP on solid footing, to run the program to the antarctic and other locations around the globe. Your support of the YEAP is an investment in the future.

Our partnership with Students on Ice is critical. The SOI arctic expedition will provide us with the opportunity to run the very first Youth Environmental Ambassadors Program. Deanna del Vecchio, executive director of Frame of Mind, and I will be teaching students the tools of environmental visual communication (EVC), to create inspiring messages of environmental awareness and preservation. Using photography and videography, students will learn to see and document the beauty, uniqueness and value of the arctic as well as how human activities threaten its existence. They will use their images and video to create stunning visual presentations to inspire their peers to create the changes needed to address global climate change, habitat destruction, species extinction, and global pollution. The YEAP's goal is create a generation of change - positive change for our planet. We hope you will support our program and the youth that will be the generation of change.

My thanks to France Rivet at Polar Horizons for the use of her beautiful images. Please visit Polar Horizon's website by clicking HERE.