Youth in Action: Bike Leadership Camp

Youth in Action teamed up with BiketoSchoolTO to offer a full day leadership event at Evergreen BrickWorks for students from multiple TDSB/TDCSB bike clubs. The students learned about cycling advocacy and leadership skills (such as how to promote their bike clubs at school and the act of cycling around the city). They took part in many workshops (riding skills, bike maintenance, communications, etc.) and put the skills to good use in the final presentations, where the students presented their future plans for their bike clubs. 

Above: Here we are getting started with registrations! It was a big group of young cyclists!

Below: The students taking part in the communications workshop (learning how to promote their bike clubs with announcements, posters, booths and presentations).

Above: The BiketoSchoolTO leader Chantelle going over the agenda.

Below: Key note speakers came on to talk about their experiences cycling in Toronto.

 Above: The audience left notes on each schools poster to let them know any recommendations or appreciation for their presentation about their future plans.

Below: Some of the students making their final presentations to the group. 

Thank you everyone for coming out and putting your best effort into this leadership training. Toronto is lucky to have young leaders like you to promote sustainable transportation!

Youth in Action: Leadership and Team Building Workshops!

This month, Youth in Action partnered up with the Summer settlement Program and the Toronto Catholic District School Board for some amazing workshops. The classes joined us to practice leadership skills through theatre activities and worked together to do team building exercises that helped our groups to hone their skills at problem solving as a group. 

Here are some pictures of the groups as they prepared and presented their skit of leadership styles (diplomatic, autocratic and laissez-faire). We discussed the different types of leaders and the teams acted out each style to the rest of the group. 

 Our amazing volunteers, Lander, Claude and Andrei were great at motivating the teams and helping them through the difficulties of the activities.

 Mr. Rojas checking-in with the students after the activity to discuss what they learned.

Then, we moved on to our Teambuilding workshop. Here, we broke the group into teams again and they were given challenges to complete together to see who could cooperate well enough to beat the tests!

The first activity was to see which team could build the tallest structure. They were given straws, tape and very little instruction and had to brainstorm to find the solution!

 

Here are some of the winning teams and their straw structures. Amazing work!

Another activity was when we broke off into two teams and raced to fill a bucket at the end of the line. The teams practiced patience and worked together to send the water down the line to the finishing bucket. 

And one last shot of our check-in after the activities to see what we learned!

 Such a great day and so much was learned by participants and facilitators! Thanks to everyone for coming out and see you at the next Youth in Action event!