Challenge #1: Canada Day Digital

This week's Challenge:

Answer this:

Where do YOU, as a YOUTH, think Canada stands in comparison to the World in terms of Digital
Citizenship, technology, and all of the laws and rights that go along with these things?

My Encounter with a GBC Shredmaster ("Success Story" #2)

Hello everyone,

It's sunny, and about 23 degrees in the Terence Bay on this Friday afternoon. So all of our normal patrons appear to be enjoying the nice weather as they should be. That being said, things could change as the afternoon progresses.

I will now get to the main point my entry for this week. The following account is of a somewhat funny (though not at the time) incident that happened to me this morning...If you're still interested at this point, continue reading.

It was 9:00 am this morning and I had just arrived at the Resource Opportunities Centre to begin my shift. After the typical *opening up* procedures were completed, I noticed a sheet of paper laying on one of the tables we have in here, it was for something that we had accomplished yesterday and there was no reason for it to be in the public eye cluttering up the place. I could have just put the piece of paper in the recycling bin, but I noticed our "GBC Shredmaster" (known to the rest of the world as your average paper shredder) sitting in a corner of the room.

I then decide to shred this piece of paper, with the help of the Shredmaster, because I thought that would be more fun. I insert said piece of paper into the top of the shredder as per normal and the Shred master does its job and shreds said piece of paper. Everything appears to be going normally until the shredder did NOT shut off after it had completed its shredding job (normally it's supposed to shut off after it's done). Slightly confused at these abnormal circumstances involving the shredder I then come up with a list of solutions with the hope of solving this interesting problem.

Solution 1: Find the "on/off" switch on the shredmaster.

Outcome: apparently the shredmaster did not come with such a switch, so after realizing this I quickly move on to solution 2

Solution 2: unplug the shredmaster

Outcome: the outlet which the shredder is plugged into runs parallel to the side of a bookcase which is placed quite close to the outlet. There is also a pillar that juts out in the opposite direction. All of this creates a narrow L shaped space one must reach around in order to unplug the shredder....It was too narrow for me to fit my arm through so I quickly moved onto solution 3.

Solution 3: Ask GOOGLE for help
Outcome: GOOGLE was not very helpful for this situation. So I moved onto solution 4

Solution 4: Call the boss on his cell and see what he would do.
Outcome: no answer.

At this point the time was approximately 9:30 so the shredder had been whining for 20 minutes straight (fortunately it was not overheating ...yet...).

Suddenly, the door opens...in steps the boss. He says something along the lines of "Hey Brian! What's happening?" I then update him on the shredmaster situation. He resorts to "solution 2" in the "list of solutions" as he is able to reach around the L shaped corner between the bookcase and the outlet and unplug the shredder. Chaos was stopped...and nothing overheated...which was good!

After that 20 minute episode, things have been quite normal around here. Although, with a little under 3 hours to go...that could all change...you never know...

The Shredmaster has since decided to cooperate ...which is pretty much awesome....


Hope you were able to enjoy that!

-Brian

Walk through of the Lake Echo CAP site.

The First Week of Summer

This week was very... 'organizational' I suppose you could say. I guess it was fitting, because the first week of Summer always seems to bring lists of To-Do's and Want-To-Do's. I have been planning away in my notebook (I like to handwrite lists, even if there's a computer right in from of me!) for my work with Seniors this Summer, our Orientation Day, and various trips to sites around Halifax... It looks like we have a great group forming this Summer, and I think that things should be picking up for everyone starting next week.
In early July, you all should hopefully be joining me here at the Hub Halifax, which is a great workspace!

I leave you with a lovely photo of the place I generally try to sit while at work - by the windows that face onto Barrington. It's a great view!

June 21st-25th

Hey, my name is Miles and I am one of the interns at the Cole Harbour site. This has been my first week working at the C@P site, and it has been quite an interesting week! We certainly hit the ground running this week in Cole Harbour, we spent the first day entirely redoing our two bulletin boards; taking off the posters for programs that have pasted and putting up notices for upcoming events, as well as just touching up the decorations to make the boards more eye-catching! I’ve also been learning to use the programs necessary for our camps such as ‘Scratch’ and ‘MonkeyJam’. Today we are finishing up the installation of the necessary programs on the computers for the ‘Claymation’ camp and I must say, it’s making me realize how excited I am for the camps to begin! Until next week!

... From Dartmouth North

Not too much going on here this week. Lots of people in requiring help with resumes ! It's that time of year I guess. Public schools are just ending so everyone's eager to get employed for the summer.

I had one computer this week that was causing a lot of problem. It would keep shutting itself off and have boot failures every second startup. This was frustrating for people who were writing documents and losing their work. Wednesday I took this computer apart, replaced the hard drive and optical drive. Did a clean install of windows and reinstalled all of the network printers...etc. Everything seems to be working well now ! It was used quite a bit yesterday without any issues.

Fundimentals are the building blocks of fun

This week has taught me how similar learning how to use a computer and learning how to read is. In both situations you start off slow, learning little things like what a letter is or how to turn a computer on. You slowly learn more and more until you can read an entire sentence or type up an email. The more you use these new skills the better you get even if you don't really notice your improvement.

These days almost every young person has used a computer and is fairly advanced in their level of computer literacy. Without even thinking about it we use hot-keys, scroll down pages, and google any thing we need to know about. Most of us can enroll in classes, pay our bills, book plane tickets and buy our text books in under ten minutes. This all seems pretty easy when you've been on a computer since your age was in the single digits but to someone who has just started using a computer while in their 60's it all seems down right scary.

What I consider to be my biggest success this week is helping a new computer user get more comfortable on the internet by showing her little things that make the experience more effective and efficient. I never realized the time a few clicks of the tab, control, and enter key really saves you and how much more someone can get done when they make the effort to come out and further their learning.

My Weeks

Hi there all. Not sure if all of the interns read this, but it is interesting to hear what others are doing.

My weeks have involved a broad variety of tasks. I was here last year, so I had an idea of what I wanted to do. Firstly, I redid the website completely. Please have a look here if you're interested: http://www.coleharbourcap.ca. I see that some others have used Joomla!, and we followed suit. This is one thing that I feel that C@P Sites in general, even though they are technology-based, are lacking. There have been a lot of new additions as far as functionality, including a survey system for our campers, soon a number of other campers at Cole Harbour Place, and our patrons. This also involved the move to Google Apps for our email, calendar and documents, and their appropriate documentation.

We have also been running one-on-one classes, and have one to two per day. This is a great source of revenue, and can be worth $50-$100 per week. These are rewarding, and classes have been based on basic computer use, Microsoft Office, and specific usage questions. Work is also being done to bring the classes back to a larger scale.

At one point, the Cole Harbour C@P Site held full classes, with up to 8 students/class, on a number of topics. As instructors moved on, eventually there were no more left, no resources to train new ones, and the program ceased to exist. As this could provide great income, as well as a useful service to the community (many people have been asking about this service), I have great interest in revitalizing it. This is my next project.

Finally, I have been planning day camps, which we will be running starting July 5th. These are in Lego Robotics, Claymation, and a brand new Computers and Technology camp. These are much of the same curriculum as last year, so not too much needs to be done. Miles, the other intern that will be here for the summer, starts Monday, and then we will be finalizing day camp schedules and activities.

In all, it has been an intense but fun couple of weeks, and I am quite pleased with the progress we have made so far.

Talk to you all later!

NS C@P Wallpaper

I made this last summer to achieve some semblance of consistency among the machines in our CAP site. Sharing is caring, so anyone who would like to use it is welcome to download the original from here. I may even still have the original PSD kicking around somewhere at home, so if anyone is interested in tweaking it a bit to better suit their site (it is a bit dark, eh?) and has Photoshop available to them, let me know, and I'll see if I can find it.

News from Sheet Harbour C@P

This week has been fairly quiet. I helped some one with their facebook account (they had been kicked off for some reason), I also made him a new hotmail account only to find out that the guy had probably a dozen live email accounts. I cleaned off all of the computers and ran a virus scan over all of the computers. We are having some problems with the printers so I will probably be working on that next week (some of the computers say that the printer is offline but yet the printer works when using other computers). Another interesting thing that I probably should of mentioned last week is that we have extended hours on Wednesday and Thursday from 9am-8pm (I get to come in at 1pm, which is great cause i love sleeping in). This just started June 2nd, 2010, the first two days with the new extended hours no one came but yesterday we got quite a few people.
In community events they started building a new Nursing Home it should be completed next year. on the 19th there is an annual Charter night for the Sheet Harbour Lions and Lionesses. See this site for more community events http://www.webspawner.com/users/ecumsecuminfo/index.html
the Sheet Harbour website is http://www.sheetharbour.ca/
A fair amount of people have come into the C@P Site this week most of them were High Schoolers who visit between exams. This ties in with my funny story of this week. Early this week one of the boys who were going into grade twelve came into the site and asked me if I would write his exams and he would work at the C@P Site during that time. I told him that I could but then he would probably fail we had a good chuckle over that. the next day he came in and informed that he aced his exam and had only French-history left. About 20 minutes after he told me this someone asks him what exams he had left and he had to ask me because he forgot. After his exams were all finished he came into the C@P Site and asked me for a pair of head phones a few minutes later he asked for help because they were not working but then he realized that he forgot to plug them in. The poor guy.

That's all for me this week.
~Brittney Hartling
Have Fun

News from Veith House

Hola! This is Josh from the Veith House CAP site in the north end of Halifax. I was Veith House's CAP site monitor last summer and part time over this past school year. Fun times have been had, but, as I'm sure most CAP interns can attest, things are generally fairly slow going. We have a website here if you'd like to know more about our wee building in the north!

This week was pretty quiet, as will be the next couple in all likelihood, because school is not out for public schoolers, and most of my visitors are between 10 and 14... ish. I still managed to keep myself busy with a project to replace a junk router we bought from Staples with a Linux-based router I built from spare parts we had in the storage room — which is truly junk, time will tell! After hours of reading man(ual) pages and editing configuration files, we now have a machine that can keep up with the browsing habits of a full CAP site instead of slowing to a crawl under the weight of so few many simultaneous connections.

I recommend against purchasing a D-Link EBR-2310 wired ethernet router.

I'm now trying to share our printer from the router using Samba and the CUPS so the staff machine needn't be on as other staff occasionally allow users in when the CAP site is closed, and it would be convenient if they could print without powering on extra computers. Not having much luck making the printer visible to Windows clients yet, though. If any of our Comp-Sci interns have experiencing configuring (functional) Samba shares, I'd value your input immensely.

Other than that, there have been odd jobs to do like moving heavy things or reaching high places. After helping set up for today's preschool graduation, I was asked to photograph the proceedings with some not-so-terrible results, though Blogger's photo uploader does them no justice at all:

Regaling parents with songs of the Itsy Bitsy Spider.

A pre-student graduating.

Story time.

"Why yes, that is a lovely Dora the Explorer book!"

Graduation was a lot of fun for kids, parents, and staff alike, and I was able to help out some parents who'd been unable to bring a camera of their own, so I suppose that's my success story for the week. Story: successful!

Email, Google and Motorcycles?

When I started this job I would never have guessed that the first thing that I helped someone do on a computer was buy a motorcycle online. In a town where the majority of CAP users are seniors I was expecting questions about emailing or Microsoft office and was pleasantly surprised when the first person that walked in my door wanted to know how to use Kijiji. Having used Kijiji in the past I knew how to maneuver the site and while showing my visitor how to use the search options to narrow down his findings I asked what it was he was looking for. I figured he must be interested in purchasing some new furniture or maybe just wanted to see what the site was all about but was clearly mistaken since it turned out he wanted to buy a new Harley Davidson to ride around on during the summer.

I had other people in during the week but this particular visitor stood out from the rest. It was nice to help someone learn how to use the website but what made it memorable (aside from the fact that he was buying a motorcycle) was the fact that this was just some website my visitor had heard about in passing (he didn't really know the name at first just that it was "like eBay but different") and decided he wanted to learn more about it.

The fact that people can drop by and ask questions about absolutely anything to do with computers is really what makes the CAP program so great. Its nice that people who have little or no previous technological experience have somewhere close to learn more about whatever might interest them. I know my visitor was happy to learn more and I hope that I can help many more people accomplish their computer goals over the summer.

...Report from Dartmouth North Community Center C@P Site.

I spent most of this week doing hardware repairs/upgrades to various computers in the lab.

I was turned onto a great computer maintenance tool called "Hirens". For anyone that repairs computer this is an essential tool !

I spent the better part of my week upgrading ram, video cards, optical drives, and case fans. Now that the hardware side of things is pretty well taken care of I have shifted my focus to software testing. Hiren's has multiple built in tools and scanner. On one of the computers here I found 554 infected files !

In addition to my repairs I have been working on developing a summer computer camp which I will host once a week for any youth interested. More info will follow on the camp in future blog posts.

Enjoy the nice day !

Rob

Enjoy the nice weather !

Looking Forward to Senior Moments

This week, in the midst of chasing down some paperwork around the HRM, lots of e-mailing, getting updates on Interns (some places still haven't hired yet!), something really great happened!

On top of my coordinator duties, this Summer I will be spending a day or two a week working with Seniors in both Halifax (Spencer House CAP) and my hometown of Beaver Bank (the BBKSA Keeners).

I will be doing computer training, geocaching, and website maintenance with both groups. I am really excited, because my best times in my past two Summers with CAP were spent with seniors!

We have emerged from the Dark Ages!! FINALLY!

I have been working at the Lake Echo Community Centre for the past six summers. The previous five I worked as a counselor for the Day Camp put on by the Lake Echo Lions Club, but this year I am working at the CAP site located in the same building.
During my time at the Community Centre I have grown accustomed to the lack of an online presence for both the Centre and the CAP site. Typing the Centre into Google would result in several static and ancient pages that did not represent us properly.
This year when I interviewed for the Intern position I made a commitment to create a dynamic site that was easily updated by any of the staff and contained features that would make it easy for the community to meet online.
After a couple weeks of tinkering and a lot of technical difficulties the sites are finally up and running with most of the features that the client (Sharon Dykman, the boss) wanted implemented including a forum, online registration for the day camp, and an easy way to post news and informative articles for members of the community to view.



Check them out for yourself and see what's going on in Lake Echo!

Lake Echo Rec Centre

Lake Echo CAP

If you have any question about starting a similar site for you location let me know!

The Prospect Road Community Centre is Finally Here!

Ashley Thomas, Resource Opportunities Centre, Terence Bay C@P Site

Hi everybody, I’ve also never written a blog or really even paid much attention to them before this and I’m not really a fan of writing “About me” columns so this might not be very good. My name is Ashley Thomas, this is my second summer working at the Resource Opportunities Centre (Terence Bay CAP Site) and I’m glad to be back home and working in the community this summer.


In September, I will be entering into my second year as an arts student at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus. My first year of university was very bumpy for the most part; I started out as a Kinesiology student but applied for an internal transfer for the winter semester. I changed programs because I didn’t agree with the required courses and really didn’t end up liking Kin very much. I decided to transfer to the Bachelor of Arts program because in my first semester I became very interested in psychology and by the end of this upcoming year I’m hoping to be in the honors psychology program.


My interests include: swimming, camping, photoshop, fitness, Muay Thai, psychology and more.

This summer at the Resource Opportunities Centre, I’m hoping to put my enthusiasm for Photoshop to work to make flyers to promote community events and programs. I’d also like to put on a basic computer skills class for seniors along with some other tutorials for using Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop.

Matt Chamberlain - Cole Harbour C@P Site

Hello there all, my name is Matt Chamberlain, and I'm the intern for the Cole Harbour C@P Site. I'll try to keep this fairly brief.

My main interest is computers and technology, so the C@P Site is a great fit for me. I was here last summer as well, and so it is not too huge of a learning curve this time around. I will be at Dalhousie next year studying Computer Science.

I am going to be doing the day camps here at Cole Harbour Place, which will be in Lego Robotics, Claymation and Computers and Technology. I will also be doing a few other projects, such as getting the website up to snuff (my work so far is at http://www.coleharbourcap.ca, with the structural redo complete). I've also been doing one-on-one classes, once or twice a day.

As far as hobbies go, people are sometimes surprised to learn that I am quite interested in plants. It seemingly isn't often that technology and plants are two interests. My favourite types of plant are carnivorous plants and cacti. I have about 25 plants in total, as well as 10 cactus (Melocactus zehntneri) seedlings, with more seeds on the way. With respect to cacti, I am quite interested in their slow growing habits, and the fact that they take so much time and patience to raise them from seed to mature cactus, generally on the order of years.

I hope this gave you all a taste of me, without having to take a bite. We'll be seeing you.

Brian Berry, Resource Opportunities Centre, Terence Bay C@P site

Hi everyone,

my name is Brian Berry, and I am one of the summer youth interns at the Resource Opportunities Centre (a.k.a. the Terence Bay C@P site), located in the fairly remote and typically very foggy coastal community of Terence Bay, Nova Scotia... It's usually just a 20 minute drive from Halifax. However if you get lost trying to find the place, it will take longer.

I was first exposed to C@P in late spring of 2008 when I applied for a summer position at the Resource Opportunities Centre. This is now my third summer here at the R.O.C. In between summers I have been studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Crandall University.

Aside from School and work, I actually do have other interests

They include, but are not limited to:
• Playing Guitar (acoustic or electric)
• Playing Bass ...the instrument, not the fish
• Music in general
• Hanging out with good friends
• Gaming
• Canoeing
• Biking

I’m done with the bulleted list now....

I should also mention that this is my first time ever using Blogger or blogging in general so hopefully this has been a positive experience for you all and I have not bored you out of your skulls.
---Brian

Brittney Hartling, Sheet Harbour

Hey,
My name is Brittney Hartling from Sheet Harbour Nova Scotia. This is my third year working at the Sheet Harbour C@P Site. I spent my whole life in just outside of Sheet Harbour and went to school at the Sheet Harbour High School (Duncan MacMillan High School). I just finished my fourth year at Memorial University of Newfoundland but I still need some credits to finish my BA so I will be returning to MUN in the fall. I'm majoring in History and am hoping to eventually get a degree in teaching.
For those that do not know where Sheet Harbour is, a small village is located about an hour and a half to two hours away from Dartmouth. It is pretty much in the middle of no wheres but I love it here! Nothing much ever happens here but I will try to fill my blogs with some of the most interesting things that happen here without lying. I have never done a blog before so I'm unsure about how this works but I will try best.
I do not know what else to put so,
Have fun today!
~Brittney

Sarah Haworth, Waverley C@P Sites

Hi everyone!! I have never done any sort of blogging before but I will do my best this summer. My name is Sarah Haworth and I am working at the three Waverley CAP sites this summer. I'm excited to be working close to home and in the community where I grew up.

I'm a business student going into my third year at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and am back at home for the summer. I have attended classes at both WLU and the University of Waterloo and really enjoy the city of Waterloo but am happy to be home. The program I'm in is Honours Business Administrations and my plan is either to go into investment banking and get my CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) or head to law school after I have completed my undergrad. Its hard to believe I'm already half way done school and will have to decide what I really want to do soon.

Other then school I have always enjoyed being involved with sports. Growing up I ran cross country and played hockey, ringette, and soccer. I'm no longer on any team sports but enjoy playing squash and running. I am also one of the few senior female soccer referees in the province (this is my sixth season!) so I still spend most evenings on the field.

I'm hoping the mix of my marketing and computer knowledge will help me bring in and help out lots of people this summer. Waverley is not a very big place but there are always people that need more assistance when it comes to effective and efficient computer usage. My goal is to help people of all experience levels feel comfortable on a computer.

Brook Townsend, Lake Echo C@P

My name is Brook Townsend, I was born on May 2nd 1989 making me 21 years old. I live in Porters Lake Nova Scotia, Canada with my parents :S and I am currently working at the Lake Echo CAP as an Intern.

I graduated from Eastern Shore District High School in 2007 and began a B.Sc at Dalhousie University the following fall. I chose Science because I was not sure what I wanted to do but felt like I would be falling behind if I took a year off. I took the chance and unfortunately I was wrong, so I then decided to take the year off and hopefully afterwards I would have an idea of what I wanted to do.

Halfway through the summer of 2008 I decided I wanted to travel after talking to a coworker about his 8 months teaching English in China. I ended up deciding to spend 6 months in Vietnam, I also wanted to go somewhere hot so naturally I chose Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon).

After returning from the eye opening trip I applied for the Bachelor of Informatics program back at Dal. I was accepted and began in the fall of 2009. This time around I knew almost immediately that INFX was right for me.

Biking

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As most kids, I loved riding my bike. I have many fond memories riding aroun kejimkujik National Park on my Toys-R-Us bikes when I was younger. I never became focused on mountain biking until I aged out of minor hockey a few years ago. I needed to fill the gap with another sport and naturally I went with Biking. This was when I built my first bike, I bought most of the parts used from a website with a large buy/sell section geared towards bikes. After I had all my parts I assembled the bike myself; I learned a lot during this time since i wasn't 100% sure how everything went to gether at first.

The folowing fall I went to Wentworth ski hill to try Down Hill riding for the first time, after that one weekend I was hooked. Hockey never came close to touching the adrenaline rush that I had everytime I went through those trails. I decided that I was going to get more serious and start competeing at race events

The next spring I invested in a new frame that was much more suited for Down-Hill racing, along with several new parts (replacments for the things I broke during my first year) I was ready to race for the first time in my life! The results of my first race were not so good, I crashed on both timed runs I did and ended up in the bottom half out of 20 or so people. This was the same story for two other races I had that year, but I wasn't giving up!

This year I did some major upgrades to my bike (this is not a cheap sport... I had to choose between my bike or a car and i went with the bike hahaha) aming to give me an edge in the races. I only raced once this year but I came in the top ten so I was pretty happy with that, although this was not the highlight of my 2009 season.

Late in the summer me and a few of my good friends took our bikes up to Sugarloaf, Newbruniswick; it is the closest Downhill bike park and it was the best two days of biking I have ever had.

Downhill mountain biking has taken me to quite a few places in Nova Scotia and Newbrunswick

• Wentworth, NS
• Keppoch (Antigonish), NS
• Sugarloaf, NB
• Crabbe, NB

Finally I want to talk about my trip to Vietnam!

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I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on January 3rd after leaving Halifax on the 1st. Halifax, Toronto, Hong Kong, HCMC, was the order of my flight which totaled a grueling 33 hours in Airports and on planes. After the 14 hour flight from Toronto to HK it hit me that everything was real. Sure, I knew where I was going but it didn't seem as real as it did when I stepped into Asia.

I was lucky enough to have a cousin vacationing in HCMC during that time so he got me setup with a place to live and showed me the basic ropes of living in HCMC. My plan was to Teach English so I went for a few interviews at various English schools; I was only able to teach a few classes before everything shut down for Tet, (lunar New Year, Chinese New Year, etc). The actually date of Tet was the 26th of January but schools shut down two weeks before and are out until a week after. This gave me a great chance to check things out while my cousin was still around.

We went to Vũng Tàu (pronounced: Vumn Taow) , a beach town about 1h30min boat ride down the Saigon river which makes it a very popular weekend getaway from the city. It's located on a peninsula at the delta; the population is around 1,000,000 people. The beach stretches the entire length of the east side of the city and the water is much warmer than that of the Caribbean. The bars are another highlight of Vung Tau.

After my cousin left I came down with a slight case of culture shock, I was scared to go out of my room, I didn't know the language and I had no idea about how anything worked. For about a week I didn't do much other than watch T.V. in my room and eat Oreos. After I got over it, I made good friends with the manager of the Hotel I was staying at, and started to teach much more. My next big step was learning how to ride a motorbike in HCMC. If you're familiar with motorbikes or dirtbikes you know that there's not much to driving them but in HCMC when there’s 12,000,000 on little scooters mixed in with big trucks things can get a little dicey. It helps that most bikes down there are in the 100-125cc range... don't laugh, these thing as sweet down in Asia! I ended up renting an awesome Yamaha Nouvo which I added ground FX to :D.

Having the bike and knowing how to drive it was key to enjoying my stay. It allowed me to join in on "going around" (instead of drinking, people my age drive around the city in large groups) It also allowed me to go on dates with some of my students (HEY! they asked me okay. and they're my age or older!!! and it's socially acceptable there!).

This is only a small part of my huge adventure! I wish I had the time to write down all my thoughts but it would take forever. One thing you should know is that I’m going back after school for an extended stay, so in other words, it was awesome.. and beer was $0.15 so.. yeah haha.

Okay, it feels like I've written a book! and sorry for the life story ll, I just got into it.

Ciao,

Brook

Rob Young, Dartmouth North CAP

Hey everyone,

My name is Rob Young. I am Currently entering my 4th year of computer science studies at Dalhousie University. For the summer I am located at the Dartmouth North Community Center C@P site. In addition to C@P I work at the Halifax Forum 3-5 nights per week.

My Interests include: Sports (big ufc fan), hiking, camping, or anything outdoors.

This is a picture of me at Cape Split. Did the hike a few weeks ago ! Spectacular panoramic view !

This is also my first time using blogger so I'm still figuring out how things work. I have no idea if this post will end up on the home page or the about me page.

Feel free to add me to facebook.

Have a nice summer.