Youth Water Council Opportunity – Learning and Leadership

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A new Special Pilot Project to create a Youth Water Council is coming this fall. If you want to make a difference to help Albertans understand some of how Alberta’s rivers and lakes are managed, then this pilot project is for you.

The Youth Water Council will harness your learning, leadership, and creativity skills by putting you in the driver seat to:

Learn about the rules for taking water from Alberta’s rivers and lakes, and why those rules are important.

Decide on and design ways to communicate the rules to Albertans.

This pilot project will focus on senior 4-H members from the East Central region. It includes five virtual evening sessions (tentatively Nov 1, 8, 15, 22, 29) and an intensive in-person weekend session (tentatively December 10, 11, and 12, likely in the Hanna area) during which the Council members will:

Hear from and question experts in water regulation, environmental science, and communications.

Explore different perspectives around withdrawing water from the environment.

Design target audience ‘avatars’ and decide how to focus their communications projects by getting input from their fellow club and community members.

Create a project to communicate to Albertans what the Council has learned and feels is important

Check out this information sheet for more details.

Email: programs@4hab.com if you have any questions about this program!

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Provincial Event Registration Policies

  • Online Registration opens at 12:00 am on the first day of registration and is available 24 hours a day until midnight of the registration deadline.
  • Registration is not considered complete until full payment is received.
  • All requests for late registration (after the Regular Registration Deadline) will be accepted at the sole discretion of the program lead and will be subject to an additional fee of $25.00 on top of the Regular Registration cost.
  • An administrative fee of $25.00 will be retained on all cancellations. Cancellations received less than 14 days before the event start date will forfeit the entire registration fee unless a delegate replacement is available or extenuating circumstances are at play.