Interview with Youth in Motion

Posted by Joshua
December 18, 2008

Two months ago, a friend of mine and fellow TD Scholar Jasmeet Sidhu asked if she could interview me for the 2009 Winter Youth in Motion Newsletter. Youth in Motion (YIM) is a non-profit organization that runs numerous career and mentorship programs, including their renowned Top 20 Under 20 national awards program. I was a recipient of the Top 20 Under 20 award in 2005. Jasmeet herself was a recipient in 2007, and now sits on YIM’s Board of Directors.

Anyways, I stumbled across the newsletter today and thought Jasmeet did a really good job with the article. If anyone’s interested, you can read it here.

For the entire newsletter, you can check it out here.

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Wow respect! My school is actually trying to parter with SMARTS in order to help us do some new projects for our Science Club. I’m talking about Newtonbrook Secondary School from Toronto. If you heard of us, please let me know.

Comment by Oleg on December 23, 2008 @ 12:43 pm

Hey Oleg,

That’s great! Are you guys part of our School Correspondent Network or involved with us in any way as yet?

Comment by Joshua on December 23, 2008 @ 11:16 pm

Hey Joshua,
I’ve got a random question. How did you and what exactly inspired you to start SMARTS? I’ve checked out the website and it seems like such a big organization. How did you get it to be so big? I mean, where did you start? It just seems so amazing how you could’ve done something like that. How long did it take before it was well known across Canada?

Comment by Brian on June 21, 2009 @ 4:12 pm

Hi Brian,

My inspiration for SMARTS was mainly having been fortunate to learn about many different science and technology programs, and then finding out that many schools lacked access to that knowledge and other resources.

It started out as a small independent website that I ran, and then I got in touch with Youth Science Canada, who liked what i was doing, and asked me to begin working with them – and being a part of their charity is one of the major reasons why SMARTS has stretched as far as it has.

Comment by Joshua on June 23, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
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