SOI Alumnus Cason Crane summits Mt. Everest for the Rainbow Summits Project!

SOI alumnus Cason Crane recently summited Mt. Everest! He is on a mission to become the first openly gay person to climb the highest mountains on each continent (The Seven Summits). His Rainbow Summits Project is an initiative to help raise awareness and funds for the Trevor Project, which is helping LGBTQ youth get the help they need and to call attention to the important issue of LGBTQ youth suicide.

Please consider donating to help Cason achieve his fundraising goal of $250,000. Donate here: http://rainbowsummits.org/.

You can find out more about this great initiative at the links below. Way to go Cason!

http://rainbowsummits.org/
https://www.facebook.com/rainbowsummits
http://www.thetrevorproject.org/

SOI Alumna Maya Burhanpurkar receives 2013 ‘Top 20 Under 20′ Award

Arctic 2013 participant Maya Burhanpurkar was recently selected as one of the
recipients of this year’s Top 20 Under 20 awards. Run by the charitable organization Youth in Motion, Top 20 Under 20 is a Canadian national awards program that reaches out to thousands of youth across the country before finalizing a list of 20 up-and-comers who embody leadership, innovation and achievement.

Maya Burhanpurkar

Maya, 13, was acknowledged for setting up a fully functioning microbiology lab in her basement at the age of 10 – after universities and research institutions told her she was too young to use theirs – where she studied the effects of antibiotics on patients and discovered new properties of an Alzheimer’s drug to protect seniors and athletes from heart attacks.

Congratulations Maya! We’re looking forward to welcoming you and all the other students participating on this summer’s Arctic Expedition!

Read more here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/top-20-under-20-recognizes-young-canadians-making-a-difference/article12376380/

SOI Founder Geoff Green to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Education from Nipissing University

As Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario prepares to honour and celebrate with its 2013 graduates, the University is also pleased to announce that Geoff Green will receive an Honorary Doctor of Education from the university. He will join an … Read more »

SOI Alumnus Selin Jessa wins TD Bank Scholarship for Community Leadership!

SOI Alumnus Selin Jessa (Antarctica 2011) has been selected as one of this year’s recipients of TD Bank’s Scholarship for Community Leadership!

The award is worth $70,000 to each student and only 20 students were selected from the list of more than 3,000 applicants across Canada.

“We want to make sure people with this much potential can acquire the tools they need to then build important ongoing careers in leading social change in Canada,” said Jane Thompson, executive director at TD Scholarships.

Applications for the scholarship are open to Grade 11 students annually from September to early December.

More information is available on TD’s website: http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/products-services/banking/student-life/index.jsp

Congratulations Selin!

Thanks for supporting the 1st annual SOI Foundation Dinner!

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A big thanks to everyone who attended the 1st annual Students on Ice Foundation Dinner on April 28 at Nota Bene Restaurant in Toronto! Hosted by CBC’s Chief Correspondent Peter Mansbridge, the event was a great success featuring dinner by … Read more »

Congratulations to the ‘Naviguez vers le Nord’ winners!

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Carrefour Frontenac ‘Naviguez vers le Nord‘ contest! Karolanne Toulouse and Raphaelle Boudreau will be joining the Students on Ice Arctic 2013 expedition this summer! This exciting contest was open to students, aged 14-18 … Read more »

SOI alumnus Alana Krug-MacLeod meets with Al Gore!

SOI alumnus Alana Krug-MacLeod (Arctic 2012 and Antarctic 2011) was invited to apply for a chance to win lunch with Al Gore. She did a video on sustainable transportation and climate change and ended up sitting next to the former vice-president of the U.S. and the creator of An Inconvenient Truth!

Way to go Alana!

SOI Alumnus Dang Dang Gruben takes fourth place in Muskrat Jamboree

Students on Ice alumnus Dang Dang Gruben (Arctic 2012) has finished fourth in his first snowmobile race. Originally from Tuktoyaktuk, Gruben was competing against a tough field of experienced competitors in the 500/600 Open Country Race at the Muskrat Jamboree in Inuvik.

Click here to read the full article on Dang Dang from the April 11 edition of the Inuvik Drum or click the following link:

http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2013-04/apr11_13sno.html

Way to go Dang Dang!

 

SOI Alumni to present at the Extraordinary Arctic Festival in Ottawa

On Friday April 19 at 7:30 pm, Students on Ice alumni will share their insights and observations from their Arctic expeditions as part of the Arctic Armchair Adventures at the Extraordinary Arctic Festival at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa! … Read more »

SOI founder Geoff Green to judge the 2013 Navigate the North contest this weekend

On March 13, Carrefour St-Georges and Carrefour Frontenac, in partnership with Students On Ice, announced the finalists of the 2013 Naviguez Vers Le Nord (Navigate the North) competition. This weekend (Earth Day weekend), Students on Ice founder and president, Geoff … Read more »