The International Youth Forum 2022

On August 26, 2022, BC Children and Youth Connection Society hosted our annual International Youth Forum. This year’s topic was Our Environment: Environmental Suitability, as our surrounding has changed rapidly in the past few years. With that in mind, we wanted to see what our youths had to say: Their concerns and how they could help. Nine teams and 34 participants joined to complete and share their perspectives and values through news broadcasts, poetry, presentation, drama, animation, and storytelling. 

With gratitude to Dr. Oliva New and Mayor Malcolm Brodie for their wonderful speeches on our current issues, what we have done to protect our environment, and how we plan to continue doing so later, participants and the audience started the forum with both encouragement and inspiration. Throughout the night, teams showed off their well-prepared efforts and wowed everyone. Eventually, through a tight vote from the audiences, B.C.Y was voted first, Math and Logic was voted second, Environment Enthusiasts was voted third, and Phishy Business was voted most creative.