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<\/a>\u201cSome of it is being political, having youth be more aware of what\u2019s going on,\u201d he says. \u201cOther things are like having more participation in youth events. My involvement was largely due to previous things I had been doing around the city. I\u2019ve done a lot of different similar sorts of things, like getting involved with alternative housing for the homeless. It\u2019s just been something I\u2019m very interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindsay was in Step Up Leadership, a group aimed at teens who are interested in gaining leadership skills. Through that, Victoria\u2019s Youth Engagement Strategy was created.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I really wanted to get out of this was to try and get more youth interested in the type of things I\u2019m interested in,\u201d says Lindsay. \u201cWhat I tried to get out of this strategy was getting the opportunity for youth to be more engaged by the city\u2014getting the city to employ or have actual physical interactions and connections with youth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindsay says his life was made more diverse by going through the technicalities of computer engineering and then having something social, something \u201cradically different on the side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun English instructor Alexis Martfeld, one of Linsday\u2019s teachers, says his studies never faltered despite his time-consuming extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially, he had written to me before the term, asking if he could not attend some of the classes to attend these council meetings for the Youth Engagement Strategy,\u201d she says. \u201cHe offered to have the mayor write a letter to attest to his commitment, but after meeting him I felt that it would be safe to say he would commit to both the council and to his studies. It never interfered with his schoolwork. He was always very committed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindsay says that sustainability is always a focus for him, right down to his classes here at Camosun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe computer engineering course has a sustainability focus, which is one of the reasons I took it,\u201d he says. \u201cThe Youth Engagement Strategy, although not targeted to that, there\u2019s always kind of that underlying thought that we are going to have to step up at some point and figure out what we\u2019re doing with the world. It\u2019s kind of a rough place right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindsay\u2019s area of interest is humanitarian architecture that is geared toward sustainable design. Lindsay admits that it\u2019s a big leap from computer engineering, but because of a course that Camosun offers in renewable-energy technologies, such as solar energy, he was drawn in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very interested in applying that to community buildings and building it into society,\u201d he says, \u201cand in the youth engagement strategy there is a lot of opportunity for that, not in architecture, but just in trying to get youth to understand a little bit more of what the city is doing environmentally. I think it\u2019s very important for everyone\u2014especially the coming generation\u2014to know what\u2019s currently happening on that front.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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