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Festivus Basketballus: Thurs. Jan 30

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting the inaugural “Festivus Basketballus” event to celebrate the great game of basketball on Thursday, January 30th, 2020.

Grade 7 teams from Crofton House School, Mulgrave, and Stratford Hall will join our YHS Tigers in the Rand Gymnasium. All four schools play two games each and have the opportunity to participate in a shooting competition.

Inspired by the spirit of Megan Dalziel, our former teacher and a basketball star in her own right, all teams will be expected to display skills, intensity, effort, sportsmanship, and of course, enthusiasm for the game of basketball.

The first game will tip-off at 9:30 am, and the final game of the day will start at 2:15 pm.

We wish everyone a great day of competition and camaraderie. If you can, we hope that you will come out and cheer!

Brent Jackson
Athletics Coordinator

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David Prissinotti
Athletics Director

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Grade 6 and 7 Hackergal Hackathon

On Tuesday, December 17th, our Grade 6 and 7 students participated in York House School’s second annual Hackergal Hackathon. About 75 girls were ideating, developing, and refining a coding project using the Lynx Coding platform. The theme for this Winter’s Hackathon was Leaders in HERstory. The girls’ projects ranged from telling a story about a female leader to creating a “choose your own adventure” activity, and everything in between. We were also joined by three female coding professionals in Vancouver’s computer science industry who problem solved alongside the students and mentored these girls in an authentic way. We are very proud of our Grade 6 and 7 students who collaborated effectively with their peers, learned many new skills throughout the Hackathon process, and ended the day with tremendous pride and an understanding that they, too, are coders!

Kate Anthony
Educational Technology Coordinator