Quite a number of students from across ASD-N are keenly looking forward to attending a special educational event in Halifax on Wednesday November 27th called We Day™.  Organized by Free the Children™  the event is intended to reward and motivate these students who over the last year and longer have been very active in projects that help others in need, locally and globally. We Day™ takes its name from the idea that participants have been thinking less about the “wants of me” and more about the “needs of we” and that together with others of a like mind, they can make the world a better place.  We Day Atlantic Canada™ is planned as a gala event at the Halifax Metro Centre with a program that includes well known entertainers and motivational speakers.       Amongst the groups going is one made up of former Nelson Rural School (NRS) students of teacher Mrs. Ellen MacDonald, now in grade 9 at James M. Hill High School. They have been selected as a profile school for their projects at NRS last year and the school will be used as a model by Free the Children™  Details of their efforts are attached below and are illustrative of the sorts of activities students from across the district have been involved with. Some members of this group are pictured above. North and South Esk Regional High School (NSER) too have been very active and will be sending students to Halifax. Last school year they hosted their own “mini We Day” for local schools. They will have a chance to attend a back-stage “meet and greet” with Free the Children™ founder Craig Kielburger. Thirty students from Bathurst High School (BHS) and Superior Middle School have also been invited to the Gala for their efforts towards meeting the “needs of we”. They are led by BHS teacher Mr. John Cleland and a record of their efforts is presented at “Leave Your Legacy”. The Interact Club of Miramichi Valley High School will have 21 deserving students making the trip and a group formerly from Croft Elementary, now attending Harkins Middle School, will be going. Other District schools have been involved in similar forms of charitable activism promoted by Free the Children™ including Dalhousie Middle School, however not all students are able to attend the event in Halifax.     This event is one of eight such events taking place this year across Canada. Two others are planned for the United States and one in the United Kingdom. Alex Whitney, a student at Miramichi Valley High School, will attend We Day U.K.™ in March 2014 that is being presented at Wembley Arena in London, not far from the famous Wembley Stadium. Alex is one of ten Canadians students to have won an EF Tours Global Citizenship Scholarship which will take him to events in Munich and Berlin as well as London.