Desjardins Foundation Prizes
Desjardins Foundation Prizes
Have a project in mind to motivate young people?
We can provide funding so you can make it happen.
Desjardins Foundation Prizes are for driven school and community workers who would like to benefit from up to $3,000 in financial assistance to run projects with kindergarten, elementary or high school students.
Winners are chosen through a vote by Desjardins directors, employees and agents.
In 2020
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421 projects were supported
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More than $1M was awarded for projects
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62,000 young people were reached
2020 Desjardins Foundation Prize winners by region
Abitibi-Témiscamingue winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Bellefeuille-Pavillon Taschereau / Taschereau | À la découverte de l'Abitibi | $3,000 |
École alternative Harricana, CSS Harricana / Amos | Vidéo sur l'intimidation | $2,000 |
École secondaire Natagan / Barraute | Classe extérieure | $2,000 |
Maison des jeunes La Sarre / La Sarre | Activités estivales et voyage | $3,000 |
École Rivière-des-Quinze / Notre-Dame-du-Nord | Zéro déchet | $3,000 |
École du Royal-Roussillon, Pavillon Le Séjour, CSS du Lac Abitibi / Macamic | Mon école, j'y tiens! | $3,000 |
Pavillon Tremblay Macamic / Macamic | Défis d’ingénierie pour tout-petits | $2,500 |
CRÉA Kitci Amik / Lac-Simon | Wâbigônî (fleur) | $3,000 |
Polyvalente de la Forêt, CSSH / Amos | Quand l'Harmonie va, tout va! | $1,300 |
École D'Iberville / Rouyn-Noranda | Tricothèque mobile | $1,000 |
Alberta winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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Taber Christian School / Taber | Trail Building Club | $2,450 |
Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, Artisan Program / Lethbridge | Artisan Silkscreen and Printing | $3,000 |
Black Gold Outreach School / Beaumont | Learning with LEGO | $3,000 |
St. Maria Goretti School / Calgary | Digital Technology at St. Maria Goretti School | $3,000 |
École Brander Gardens School / Edmonton | Numeracy Enhancement | $3,000 |
Bearspaw Christian School / Calgary | Fun With Rapberry Pi | $3,000 |
Career and Technology Centre at Central Memorial High School / Calgary | Altadore Bee Oasis | $3,000 |
Sundance Elementary School / Calgary | Butterfly Garden at Sundance Elementary | $3,000 |
Graminia School / Spruce Grove | Health and Wellness Initiative at Graminia School | $3,000 |
Bas-Saint-Laurent winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École secondaire Chanoine-Beaudet / Saint-Pascal | La salle multi-sensorielle vibrante de nos talents | $2,933 |
Centre Jeune de Cacouna / Cacouna | Les apprentis photographes du Centre-Jeune | $3,000 |
École secondaire de Trois-Pistoles / Trois-Pistoles | Défi Pierre Lavoie (La Course) | $3,000 |
École J.C.-Chapais / Saint-Denis | Nous rêvons... d'un carré de sable! | $2,500 |
École Paul-Hubert, CSS des Phares / Rimouski | Propageons l'amour de la lecture! | $1,500 |
École de Saint-Cyprien / Saint-Cyprien | PPP-Initiation aux sports de glace | $3,000 |
École Norjoli / Mont-Joli | Station de LEGO - Robotique | $1,000 |
École secondaire du Transcontinental / Pohénégamook | Récup-art | $2,000 |
École secondaire de Trois-Pistoles / Trois-Pistoles | Des collations santé! | $500 |
École de l'Aquarelle, CSS des Phares / Rimouski | Projet cuisine collation santé à l'Aquarelle | $2,100 |
École Clair-Matin / Lejeune | Au secours des hirondelles | $1,000 |
École Joly, CSS Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup / Rivière-du-Loup | Récréations animées | $2,848 |
École du Grand-Pavois de St-Yves / Rimouski | Petites pousses deviendront grandes! | $3,000 |
École Lanouette, CSS de Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup / Saint-Antonin | Les Mordus de la nature | $3,000 |
École La Croisée I / Rivière-du-Loup | Aménagement d'une salle de stimulation sensorielle | $3,000 |
École Mgr Belzile / Saint-Ulric | J’ai à cœur ma cour d’école | $3,000 |
École des Merisiers / Rimouski | projet de lecture | $3,000 |
École Sacré-Coeur, CSS Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup / La Pocatière | Équipement Enregistrement Audio École | $2,000 |
École Lévesque / Saint-Donat-de-Rimouski | Amusons-nous dans les bois! | $2,750 |
École Roy / Rivière-du-Loup | Le concert virtuel de l'école Roy-Joly | $3,000 |
Capitale-Nationale winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École primaire La Grande Vallée - Pavillon Marguerite D'Youville / Saint-Raymond | La méditation, un atout pour la réussite | $1,250 |
Au trait d'union Québec / Québec | Réalise ton souhait! | $3,000 |
École Samuel-De Champlain / Québec | Sam'Organise | $1,000 |
Polyvalente de Charlesbourg / Québec | Explorer pour une plus grande perspective | $2,000 |
École Cardinal-Roy / Québec | Les produits écologiques | $500 |
École Courval / Neuville | Peluches et P’tites Bêtes | $1,225 |
École de l'Envol, CSS des Pemières-Seigneuries / Québec | La Coop Étudiante | $2,500 |
SQUAT Basse-Ville / Québec | Cuisines collectives | $3,000 |
Café rencontre du centre-ville (Québec) inc. / Québec | Gala de la persévérance du Projet 180° | $3,000 |
École secondaire Roger-Comtois / Québec | Initiation à la programmation et robotique | $3,000 |
Laura Lémerveil / Québec | Services de répits spécialisés | $3,000 |
École Du Campanile / Québec | Zoothérapie | $3,000 |
Joujouthèque Basse-Ville / Québec | La Bécane | $3,000 |
École du Parc / Québec | Nos copains animaux | $1,691 |
École de l'Arc-en-Ciel / Québec | Éducation par la nature | $2,000 |
Fondation Collège des Hauts Sommets / Saint-Tite-des-Caps | Parcours de la persévérance | $3,000 |
École St-François, CPPQ / Québec | Ma VIE… Mes ÉMOTIONS | $2,500 |
Productions Les Gros Becs / Québec | Tout est possible...ou presque! | $3,000 |
École de la Ribambelle / Québec | Création d'un « Espace lecture » en classe | $3,000 |
École des Hauts-Clochers (Pavillon Saint-Charles), CSS des Découvreurs / L'Ancienne-Lorette | Les Étoiles du théâtre | $350 |
École primaire Les Bocages / St-Augustin-de-Desmaures | Jardin communautaire | $3,000 |
Patro de Charlesbourg / Québec | Le Spot | $3,000 |
Intègr'action Jeunesse / Québec | La table est mise | $3,000 |
École des Pionniers, Pavillon De La Salle / Saint-Augustin | Opération sensibilisation | $2,000 |
Centre de pédiatrie sociale de Québec / Québec | Place des Jardins | $2,500 |
École Samuel-De Champlain / Québec | Je m'engage, ils s'engagent! | $1,500 |
École secondaire de La Cité / Québec | Ma bibliothèque mobile | $2,880 |
École Freinet de Québec, bâtiment des Loutres / Québec | La robotique au cœur de la motivation | $2,850 |
École d'éducation internationale Filteau / Québec | Comédie musicale | $3,000 |
École secondaire Vanier / Québec | Voyage en pleine nature | $2,000 |
École Saint-Yves, CSS des Découvreurs / Québec | Amusathèque | $2,000 |
École aux-Quatre-Vents, bâtiment 2e cycle / Québec | Zoothérapie | $1,400 |
École secondaire Louis-Jobin / Saint-Raymond | Les Brigades au service de leur communauté | $2,500 |
Polyvalente de Charlesbourg / Québec | Intégrer un « Bar à Salada » à la cafétéria | $3,000 |
Collège des Compagnons-de-Cartier / Québec | Un coup de « pousse » « vert » ma réussite! | $1,500 |
Morrin Centre / Québec | Club Science, technologie, ingénierie, art, math | $3,000 |
École des Ursulines de Québec / Québec | Jardine pour ton prochain | $2,832 |
Orchestre symphonique de Québec / Québec | Ateliers symphoniques à l'École Jeunes-du-Monde | $3,000 |
Entraide Jeunesse Québec / Québec | Soirées jeunesse + service-conseil stress et COVID | $1,750 |
École du Harfang des neiges / Stoneham-Et-Tewkesbury | Le jardin pédagogique | $3,000 |
Centre-du-Québec winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Boutons-d'Or, CSS de la Riveraine / Bécancour | Les distributeurs de bonheur | $3,000 |
École Roméo-Salois, CSS des Chênes / Saint-Germain-de-Grantham | Classe nature | $1,500 |
École la Nacelle / Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | Classe-nature bien équipée! | $3,000 |
École secondaire Jeanne-Mance / Drummondville | Nourrissons nos Neurones | $3,000 |
École St-Jean / Wickham | Ti-Cuistôts | $3,000 |
École secondaire les Seigneuries / Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | Jeune Coop : On se construit un abri! | $3,000 |
École Le Rucher / Bécancour | Balançoire adaptée pour fauteuils roulants | $3,000 |
École La Jeunesse, CSS La Riveraine / Sainte-Perpétue | Atelier pour saines collations (serre-école) | $3,000 |
Centre d’éducation préscolaire La Samare / Plessisville | Classe nature : bien habillé, bien chaussé! | $3,000 |
École communautaire l'Eau Vive / Warwick | Cuisinons le jardin | $2,035 |
École Carrousel / Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults | Comédie musicale du Roi Lion | $1,000 |
La Myriade J.-P.-H.-Massicotte / Victoriaville | Une myriade de façons d'apprendre! | $3,000 |
Chaudière-Appalaches winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Sainte-Thérèse, CSS des Navigateurs / Saint-Agapit | Du théâtre pour grandir | $2,000 |
Polyvalente Bélanger, Fondation de la polyvalente Bélanger / Saint-Martin | Kayak de mer sur le Fjord du Saguenay | $3,000 |
École Vision Beauce / Sainte-Marie | Passion clubs | $3,000 |
École secondaire Louis-Jacques-Casault / Montmagny | Un groupe uni, profitons de l'hiver ensemble! | $2,890 |
École Champagnat / Lévis | Uniformes Volleyball | $2,999 |
École secondaire Guillaume-Couture / Lévis | Championnat de robotique en ligne | $3,000 |
École de l'Étoile / Lévis | Enseigner à l'extérieur pour favoriser la réussite | $3,000 |
École Saint-Joseph / Lévis | Un don de bon savon | $600 |
École Belleau, Gagnon / Saint-Henri | Parc-École Belleau | $3,000 |
Service de garde des Moussaillons / Lévis | Fine Bouche! | $1,000 |
École De la Marelle / Beaumont | Les colliers du « The Big 6 Workshop » | $1,650 |
École des Hauts-Sommets / Sainte-Perpétue | Classe Nature | $3,000 |
Maison de la Famille Rive-Sud / Lévis | Les lettres du bonheur | $2,000 |
École De Léry / Beauceville | Ma classe « reconn-Action » | $3,000 |
École Roy et Saint-Louis, Fondation des écoles de la Haute-Beauce / La Guadeloupe | Entretien des sentiers de raquettes | $2,000 |
École du Ruisseau / Lévis | La bibliothèque : Une meilleure version d'elle-même | $3,000 |
École secondaire Bon-Pasteur / L'Islet | First tech challenge | $3,000 |
Maison des jeunes l'Azymut Est*Ouest / Lévis | Les jeunes ambassadeurs de la paix | $3,000 |
École de l'Alizé / Lévis | Les p'tits bricoleurs | $800 |
École secondaire Louis-Jacques-Casault / Montmagny | 10 years reunion | $2,937 |
L'ADOberge Chaudière-Appalaches / Lévis | Boites réconfort | $3,000 |
École Saint-Joseph / Lévis | Mon livre pour mieux me connaître | $900 |
Polyvalente de Thetford Mines / Thetford Mines | Sois engagé! | $3,000 |
École secondaire de Saint-Charles / Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | Apprendre à cuisiner | $3,000 |
Polyvalente de Disraeli / Disraeli | Des fruits et légumes à l’année | $3,000 |
École des Appalaches / Sainte-Justine | Les mots s'animent | $1,943 |
École Morissette / Sainte-Claire | Jardinons vers l'autonomie alimentaire | $3,000 |
École Saint-Nicolas / Montmagny | Forêt nourricière à l'école Saint-Nicolas | $3,000 |
École du Trait-d'Union / Saint-Prosper | Passerelle animalière - Phase II | $3,000 |
École Belleau, Gagnon / Saint-Henri | L'art, créateur de liens | 1,200$ |
Maison de jeunes l'Olivier des Etchemins / Saint-Prosper-de-Dorchester | L’adolescence à travers une lentille | $1,500 |
École Marcelle-Mallet / Lévis | Abolition des bouteilles d'eau de plastique | $3,000 |
École secondaire Louis-Jacques-Casault / Montmagny | Période d'étude des joueurs de football | $3,000 |
Maison Let's Go / Saint-Georges | Des poules et des oeufs à la maternelle | $3,000 |
École Saint-Noël / Thetford Mines | Notre « Matétiatek » | $2,000 |
Côte-Nord winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Bois-Joli / Sept-Îles | Gravir les montagnes | $3,000 |
École Trudel, CSS de l'Estuaire / Baie-Comeau | Me sentir bien et m'épanouir au sein de ma classe | $3,000 |
Centre éducatif l'Abri / Port-Cartier | Jardin pédagogique (verger et potager) | $3,000 |
École secondaire Serge-Bouchard / Baie-Comeau | Ligue Robotique | $2,500 |
École Les Dunes, CSS de l'Estuaire / Pointe-aux-Outardes | Classe verte à l'école Les Dunes | $3,000 |
École Mgr Scheffer / Blanc-Sablon | Les chefs! | $600 |
École Marie-Immaculée / Les Escoumins | Espace de psychomotricité à l'école | $3,000 |
Richard et Centre multifonction / Chute-aux-Outardes | Classe vivante à l'extérieur | $3,000 |
École Bois-du-Nord / Baie-Comeau | Raconte-moi une histoire... | $3,000 |
Estrie winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École du Triolet, Pavillons 2 et 3 / Sherbrooke | Bac à fleurs et légumes | $2,000 |
École de l'Arc-en-Ciel, Pavillon 2 / Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | Notre comptoir à smoothies | $1,000 |
École Desranleau / Sherbrooke | Maraîchage intérieur & conscience alimentaire | $2,500 |
École primaire de l'Écollectif / Sherbrooke | Mur végétal | $3,000 |
Cuisines Collectives du Haut-Saint-François / East Angus | Les Mini-chefs du HSF contre la pandémie | $3,000 |
École Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de St-Georges-de-Windsor / Saint-Georges-de-Windsor | Du jardin à notre assiette! | $1,500 |
École Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix / Martinville | La cour d'école remise à neuf! | $3,000 |
École de Sainte-Cécile / Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton | L'école, un milieu de vie stimulant | $3,000 |
École Sainte-Marguerite / Magog | Pédaler en chien pour tripper | $1,310 |
École primaire de l'Écollectif / Sherbrooke | Ma forêt, je la connais | $1,000 |
École Alfred-DesRochers, CSS de la Région-de-Sherbrooke / Sherbrooke | Chanter et jouer du ukulélé! | $2,308 |
École St-Philippe / Windsor | La chaîne de bienveillance | $2,100 |
École Plein Soleil - association coopérative / Sherbrooke | Journal Plein Soleil | $600 |
École Ligugé / Martinville | Les petits pigeons du bonheur | $600 |
École D'Audet / Audet | De la serre à l'assiette | $3,000 |
École Saint-Paul, CSS des Hauts-Cantons / Scotstown | Culture de citrouilles | $3,000 |
Polyvalente Louis-Saint-Laurent / East Angus | On s'apprivoise! | $2,160 |
École Sacré-Coeur de Lac-Mégantic / Lac-Mégantic | Des outils pour apprendre | $3,000 |
École Brassard-St-Patrice / Magog | À l’écoute les coccinelles! | $660 |
École secondaire de la Montée / Sherbrooke | Café des Rebel | $3,000 |
École Mgr Durand / Coaticook | Boite à lunch ZÉRO déchet | $3,000 |
École Plein Soleil (association coopérative) / Sherbrooke | Une serre alimentaire pour l'école | $3,000 |
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Sainte-Marie de cap d'Espoir / Percé | Un corps en santé pendant la COVID-19 | $2,025 |
Polyvalente Monseigneur Sévigny / Chandler | Connais-tu ta mer? | $3,000 |
Centre de formation de la Côte-De-Gaspé, Groupe d'intégration sociale (Envol) / Gaspé | Dans ma peau | $3,000 |
New-Carlisle High School / New Carlisle | Corridor actif | $1,800 |
École Stella-Maris / Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Création et édition d'un livre | $1,000 |
Centre de formation de la Côte-de-Gaspé / Gaspé | Les jeux sont ouverts! | $3,000 |
Centre de formation de La Haute-Gaspésie / Sainte-Anne-des-Monts | Podcast Notre Histoire | $2,500 |
Maison des jeunes de Rivière-au-Renard / Gaspé | Vendredi souper à la Maison des jeunes | $3,000 |
Lanaudière winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Des Moulins, Pavillon Ste-Marguerite, CSS Des Samares / Saint-Félix-de-Valois | Cuisine santé c'est pas compliqué! | $3,000 |
École Saint-Guillaume / L'Épiphanie | Cuisiner en pot | $3,000 |
École intégrée Saint-Pierre, Pavillon Marie-Charlotte / Joliette | Les P'tits Renippeurs HD | $3,000 |
École secondaire L'Envolée / Repentigny | Initiation au ski / planche à neige | $3,000 |
École L'Impact / Mascouche | Du potager vers l'école | $3,000 |
École St-Louis / Rawdon | Les petits pouces | $2,500 |
Maison des jeunes Sens Unique Secteur Brandon / Saint-Gabriel | Investissons notre nouvelle cuisine | $3,000 |
École J.B. Meilleur, CSSDA / Repentigny | Tout le monde dehors! | $3,000 |
École secondaire Paul-Arseneau / L'Assomption | Espataklow | $1,200 |
École des Eplorateurs, CSSDA / Terrebonne | Corridor actif ou un couloir à notre couleur | $3,000 |
École du Chemin-du-Roy, Pavillon St-Joseph / Berthierville | Ludothèque du Chemin-du-Roy | $3,000 |
École Le Préambule / Saint-Charles-Borromée | À la rencontre des Premières Nations | $2,999 |
École Marie-Anne / Rawdon | Des collations pour un jardin | $1,800 |
École secondaire des Rives / Terrebonne | Les jardins du SE | $3,000 |
École Louis-Laberge / L'Assomption | Je roule vers ma réussite! | $3,000 |
École intégrée Saint-Pierre, Pavillon Marie-Charlotte / Joliette | Paroles solidaires avec nos aînés | $1,500 |
CALACS La Chrysalide / Terrebonne | Projet ACCES-Filles | $3,000 |
Laurentides winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes / Deux-Montagnes | Les semis du Futur! | $3,000 |
Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes / Deux-Montagnes | Be yourself | $3,000 |
Polyvalente des Monts / Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | Cours de Yoga pour élèves ayant un TSA | $2,070 |
Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes / Deux-Montagnes | Écolo-Bois | $2,200 |
École Saint-Joseph / Sainte-Adèle | Une classe extérieure innovante | $2,000 |
Maison des jeunes de Labelle / Labelle | Silence! Les Ados tournent La Vie. | $3,000 |
École Curé-Paquin / Saint-Eustache | On jardine à Curé-Paquin! | $3,000 |
École Val-des-Ormes, CSSMI / Rosemère | VDO un univers motivant! | $2,750 |
École de la Clairière / Boisbriand | Les héros écolos | $3,000 |
Pavillon Lionel-Scheffer / Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson | Potager pédagogique | $2,300 |
École Arc-en-Ciel / Saint-Eustache | Aimer soi-même | $3,000 |
École Fleur-des-Neiges / Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | Les fruits et les légumes, c'est bon pour le bedon | $3,000 |
École Horizon-du-Lac / Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac | Classe urbaine | $2,500 |
École de la Carrière, CSSPN / Mont-Laurier | Salle sensorielle | $3,000 |
École Mgr-Bazinet / Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | Classes neige et verte | $1,800 |
École Saint-Gabriel, Pavillon Notre-Dame / Sainte-Thérèse | Zoothérapie | $2,810 |
École Virtuelle de la CSSMI / St-Eustache | Café étudiant virtuel | $3,000 |
École Sans-Frontières / Saint-Jérôme | Initiative écologique Sans-Frontières | $1,500 |
École de la Durantaye / Saint-Jérôme | Les jardins collectifs de la Durantaye | $3,000 |
École de la Madone / Mont-Laurier | Les centres mathématiques | $1,900 |
École secondaire Augustin-Norbert Morin / Sainte-Adèle | Projet cuisine! | $400 |
École Saint-Pierre / Sainte-Thérèse | Pédagogie Nature | $1,400 |
École Horizon-du-Lac / Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac | Je fabrique mon jeu électrique! | $800 |
École Fleur-des-Neiges / Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | Salle d'apaisement | $3,000 |
École Arc-en-Ciel / Saint-Eustache | Promouvoir la lecture | $2,000 |
Laval winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École de Val-des-Ruisseaux / Laval | Savoir être et vivre ensemble | $2,000 |
École Villemaire / Laval | Projet Grandir en forme et en santé | $1,600 |
École La Source / Laval | À vos cerveaux! | $2,500 |
École Raymond, CSS de Laval / Laval | Great Kindness Challenge | $2,500 |
Twin Oaks Elementary School, Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board / Laval | Going Batty for Pollinators! | $1,200 |
École alternative Le Baluchon, Pavillon à Pierre-Laporte / Sainte-Dorothée | Jardin et Serre | $3,000 |
École Curé-Antoine-Labelle / Laval | Corridoir des sports | $2,500 |
Maison des jeunes du Marigot / Laval | Camp Le P'tit Bonheur | $3,000 |
Académie Étoile du Nord / Laval | Programme Robotique | $3,000 |
Mauricie winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École St-Joseph, CSS de l'Énergie / Shawinigan | De bons bonbons bons pour le bedon! | $3,000 |
Le Séminaire Ste-Marie de Shawinigan / Shawinigan | Micro pousses et bar à salade | $3,000 |
F.A.I.R.E. (Familles d'appui et d'intervention pour un réseau d'entraide) / Trois-Rivières | Aide aux devoirs Jean-Nicolet | $3,000 |
École secondaire Paul Le Jeune / St-Tite | Les pêcheurs de trésors de Mékinac | $2,200 |
La Tuque High School / La Tuque | L'oasis : Le local d'aide aux jeunes | $3,000 |
École secondaire des Chutes / Shawinigan | Médiéval des Chutes | $3,000 |
Groupe Scout Centre-Ville Shawinigan / Shawinigan | Autoculture et autosuffisance alimentaire | $3,000 |
Académie les Estacades / Trois-Rivières | La persévérance donne des fruits | $2,000 |
École Félix-Leclerc / Shawinigan | Une cour à « note » image | $2,000 |
École de la Petite-Rivière / Shawinigan | Embellir l'école pour faire grandir notre savoir | $2,300 |
Maison des jeunes l'escale jeunesse la piaule / Trois-Rivières | Semaine de la prévention sur la santé mentale | $1,260 |
École secondaire l'Escale / Louiseville | Déstress au salon de l'express | $3,000 |
École Marie-Immaculée (Belle-Vallée) / Maskinongé | Les petits scientifiques explorent | $1,350 |
Montérégie winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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École Saint-Romuald / Farnham | Je jardine mon avenir! | $3,000 |
École Saint-Thomas, CSS des Trois-Lacs / Hudson | On pédale et on apprend! | $3,000 |
École Rabeau, CS Marie-Victorin / Saint-Lambert | Notre classe flexible : partie 2 | $3,000 |
École secondaire Mgr-A.-M. Parent / Saint-Hubert | Vers l'autonomie avec les ateliers de monseigneur | $1,500 |
École secondaire Massey-Vanier / Cowansville | De la terre à la table... | $3,000 |
École René-Saint-Pierre / Saint-Hyacinthe | Je danse au rythme de ma vie | $3,000 |
École de l'Orée-des-Cantons, Pavillon St-Bernardin, CSVDC / Waterloo | Lecteurs un jour, lecteurs toujours! | $1,800 |
École Sainte-Claire / Longueuil | Les grenouilles actives et créatives | $990 |
École de l'Assomption / Granby | Du jardin à mon assiette | $3,000 |
École De La Broquerie / Boucherville | Un arboretum pédagogique : ma classe, mon arbre | $3,000 |
École Aux-Quatre-Vents / Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | La grande randonnée AQV | $3,000 |
École Du Premier-Envol / Bedford | Ma classe de rêve | $3,000 |
École internationale Lucille-Teasdale / Brossard | Jardin communautaire | $3,000 |
École secondaire Joséphine-Dandurand, édifice Beaulieu / Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Joséphine raconte | $2,250 |
École secondaire DeMortagne / Boucherville | Chic Café | $3,000 |
École Sainte-Cécile, CSS Val-des-Cerfs / Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton | Les ateliers d'écriture | $3,000 |
Polyvalente Hyacinthe-Delorme / Saint-Hyacinthe | Et si la distanciation physique nous rapprochait | $3,000 |
École Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption / Châteauguay | Flexi-Nature | $3,000 |
École Assomption / Saint-Hyacinthe | Les cuistots de la maternelle | $1,500 |
École Mgr-Douville / Farnham | Bougeons pour notre concentration! | $1,500 |
École Émilie-Gamelin / La Prairie | Le corps et l'esprit en action! | $2,900 |
École de la Moisson-d'Or / Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | Classes Nature autour de l'école | $3,000 |
École Les Jeunes Découvreurs / Boucherville | Une experte de la « bouffe » à l'école | $2,500 |
Fondation Pro-Études / Marieville | Je lis, je rêve, je vole | $2,640 |
École Saint-Vincent / Saint-Césaire | La couleur contre la solitude et la pandémie | $1,000 |
École J.-P.-Labarre / Varennes | La motricité au coeur des apprentissages | $3,000 |
École Mille-Sports / Saint-Hubert | Mille-Sports en camping | $3,000 |
École de la Magdeleine / La Prairie | Jardin intérieur | $3,000 |
École de l'Épervière / Rigaud | Le projet dragon | $1,500 |
École Élisabeth-Monette / Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | Les cochons se multiplient | $1,800 |
École Jean-Jacques-Bertrand / Farnham | Ateliers créatifs et concrets en math / science | $1,800 |
École Aux-Quatre-Vents / Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Ligue d'improvisation AQV | $3,000 |
École secondaire Dr. Alexis-Bouthillier / Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Lum’Arts à Dr. Alexis-Bouthillier | $1,300 |
École Le Rocher / Saint-Amable | Les petites mains! | $2,000 |
Polyvalente Robert-Ouimet / Acton Vale | Ecocouture | $2,225 |
École J.-P.-Labarre / Varennes | Classe en plein air | $3,000 |
École George-Étienne-Cartier / Longueuil | Voir la différence, être la différence | $850 |
École du Carrousel, CSS des Patriotes / Varennes | Jardiniers curieux | $2,200 |
École Curé-A.-Petit / Cowansville | Aménagement de la classe extérieure | $3,000 |
École Aquarelle-Armand-Frappier, CSS des Grandes-Seigneuries / Saint-Constant | Récérations intérieures actives | $3,000 |
École secondaire du Mont-Bruno / Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville | Une salle-blanche haute en couleur! | $2,620 |
École secondaire Arthur-Pigeon / Huntingdon | Un roman dont vous êtes le héros | $3,000 |
École secondaire Patriotes-de-Beauharnois, CSS de la Vallée-des-Tisserands / Beauharnois | Expo Patriotes en Art | $3,000 |
École Vinet-Souligny / Saint-Constant | La voix du lecteur | $1,400 |
École Georges-Étienne-Cartier / Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu | La Ludothèque d'Antoine | $2,500 |
Maison des Jeunes de Verchères / Verchères | Nourrir, ça pense! | $3,000 |
École Saint-Paul Beauharnois / Beauharnois | Murale « École de demain » | $3,000 |
Collège Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Longueuil | Jardin pédagogique et hortithérapie | $3,000 |
École Saint-Romuald / Farnham | Vers le compost | $645 |
École secondaire Polybel / Beloeil | Local d'apaisement multi sensoriel | $3,000 |
École Saint-Jean / Granby | Je prends soin de moi | $1,500 |
École de l'Hymne-au-Printemps / Vaudreuil-Dorion | Briser l'isolement par une série de concerts | $3,000 |
École de la Haute-Ville / Granby | Les cuisines solidaires | $3,000 |
École Georges-P.-Vanier / Brossard | Un partenariat avec des aînés de notre communauté! | $1,283 |
École des Bâtisseurs / Granby | Bâtissons un potager! | $2,700 |
Service pédagogique de l'hôpital Charles-Lemoyne (unité interne d'adopsychiatrie) / Longueuil | Espace de croissance | $3,000 |
École St-Joseph de Notre-Dame de Stanbridge / Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge | Jardinons dans l'école | $3,000 |
École des Mille-Fleurs / Longueuil | Je questionne mes grands-parents | $350 |
École des Bons-Vents, CS des Grandes Seigneuries / Mercier | Sur deux roues à l'école des Bons-Vents | $3,000 |
Chateauguay Valley Regional High School / Ormstown | Apprendre à ciel ouvert | $3,000 |
École de l'étincelle, Pavillon St-Marc / Granby | Active ta récréation | $3,000 |
Maison des jeunes de Marieville / Marieville | À la croisée des chemins | $3,000 |
École secondaire Antoine-Brossard / Brossard | Notre bibliothèque a besoin d'amour | $3,000 |
École Saint-Jean-Baptiste / Roxton Falls | Petits amis! Grands auteurs! | $1,000 |
École Aux-Quatre-Vents / Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Le carnaval des Quatre-Vents | $3,000 |
École Saint-Sacrement / Saint-Hyacinthe | Remise en forme | $2,800 |
École Saint-Hugues - Saint-Marcel / Saint-Hugues | Les artistes visuelles aux 4 ans | $1,200 |
Centre Régional Intégré de Formation (CRIF) / Granby | Recyclo-Vélo 2.0 | $3,000 |
Montreal winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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ruelle de l'avenir / Montreal | Atelier Virtuel Saines habitudes de vie | $3,000 |
École primaire Pierre-de-Coubertin / Saint-Léonard | Our "love" for the piano | $3,000 |
École Saint-Albert-le-Grand, CSSDM / Montreal | Apprentissages sains de base en cuisine | $2,500 |
Ali et les princes*sse*s de la rue / Montreal | Tous unis contre la COVID-19 | $2,600 |
École Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, CSSDM / Montreal | École enracinée | $3,000 |
École secondaire Jeanne-Mance / Montreal | Agriculture urbaine | $3,000 |
École primaire Sainte-Gertrude, CSS de la Pointe-de-l'Ile / Montreal | Le Cercle Virtuel de Madame Myriam | $1,600 |
École Saint-Enfant-Jésus / Montreal | Projet Un robot environnemental! | $3,000 |
École Wilfrid-Pelletier / Montreal | Des livres pour Emiliano | $3,000 |
REVDEC / Montreal | Je cultive les livres | $3,000 |
École secondaire Chomedey-de-Maisonneuve / Montreal | Des masques écoresponsables | $3,000 |
École Saint-Fabien / Montreal | Initiation robotique | $3,000 |
École Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur / Montreal | Je prends en main mon apprentissage | $3,000 |
Montreal SPCA /Montreal | The Montreal SPCA Live: Youth, Animals, Action! | $3,000 |
École Saint-Marc / Montreal | La maternelle complètement cirque! | $3,000 |
École primaire Des Coquelicots / Verdun | Le studio québécois | $3,000 |
École Simone-Desjardins, Pavillon Gouin, CSS de la pointe-de-l'Île / Montreal | Balado-souvenir | 350,$ |
Fondation Québécoise du syndrome d'Angelman / Pierrefonds | L'Oasis : aménagement de notre cour extérieure | $3,000 |
École primaire Sainte-Gertrude, CSS de la Pointe-de-l'Île / Montreal | Croque-Livres | $2,337 |
École Laurier / Montreal | Méditer pour se concentrer à Laurier | $1,700 |
Centre d'appui aux communautés immigrantes / Montreal | Je lis à la halte-garderie du CACI | $3,000 |
Héberjeune de Parc-Extension / Montreal | Joujouthèque Parc-Extension | $3,000 |
École Victor-Doré / Montreal | Aménagement d'une salle polyvalente pour tous... | $3,000 |
Maison des jeunes de Pointe-aux-Trembles / Montreal | Art de vivre | $1,200 |
École des Découvreurs, CSS Marguerite-Bourgeoys / Montreal | Les Découvreurs sont aussi journalistes | $2,750 |
École Catherine-Soumillard / Montreal | Bulle littéraire | $3,000 |
École Saint-Marc / Montreal | Un coin propice aux apprentissages | $3,000 |
Éco-Maris / Montreal | La route des possibles | $3,000 |
Maison des jeunes L'Escampette / Montreal | Des jeunes jardins | $3,000 |
École Édouard-Montpetit / Montreal | Local d'apaisement | $3,000 |
École Père-Marquette / Montreal | Ligue sport scolaire | $2,000 |
École Catherine-Soumillard / Montreal | Une tresse entre jeunesse et sagesse | $3,000 |
Jardin-des-Saints-Anges / Montreal | Persévère et Dépasse toi | $3,000 |
École secondaire Honoré-Mercier / Montreal | Concert virtuel de l'école Honoré-Mercier | $3,000 |
École Sainte-Louise-de-Marillac / Montreal | Psychomotricité | $2,877 |
École Jules-Verne / Montreal | Les Influen-Liseurs | $3,000 |
École Sainte-Louise-de-Marillac / Montreal | Mon premier robot | $2,500 |
École Saint-Émile / Montreal | Des îlots de fraîcheurs urbains à l'école | $3,000 |
Institut Pacifique / Montreal | La Pandémie, vue de ma fenêtre | $3,000 |
École La Dauversière, CSS de la pointe-de-l'Île / Montreal | Sauvons les animaux! | $1,100 |
École secondaire Pierre-Dupuy / Montreal | Propreté et bien-être écolos | $3,000 |
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, annexe / Montreal | Enrichissement du jeu symbolique | $3,000 |
École des Berges-de-Lachine / Lachine | L'agriculture, d'hier à aujourd'hui | $3,000 |
Maison des jeunes / Montreal | Jardins des Jeunes | $1,650 |
École Pierre-De-Coubertin / Montreal-Nord | Futur proche | Les créateurs d'espace-temps | $1,700 |
École primaire Île-des-Soeurs / Verdun | Un potager urbain | $1,200 |
Beurling Academy / Montreal | Getting Out of our 'Pods' | $3,000 |
Carrefour Parenfants / Montreal | De la semence au toit vert Entr’Ados | $3,000 |
Entraide Bénévole Kouzin Kouzin' Montreal-Métropolitain / Montreal | Mon livre mon refuge! | $2,800 |
École Gadbois, CSSDM / Montreal | Aménagement pour classe extérieure et jeu actif | $3,000 |
École Saint-Marc / Montreal | Le club des jeunes | $2,200 |
École St-Paul-De-La-Croix / Montreal | Lire ensemble | $1,750 |
École Lucien-Guilbault inc. / Montreal | Des trousses à outils pour DYSactivation | $3,000 |
École Joseph-Henrico / Baie-D'Urfé | Apiculture urbaine | $1,850 |
École Pierre-De-Coubertin / Montreal-Nord | Mon baluchon magique | $3,000 |
Nord-du-Québec winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
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Jaanimmarik School / Kuujjuaq | Inuit Story Telling and Student Song Writing | $2,050 |
École Bon-Pasteur / Chibougamau | Potager intérieur | $3,000 |
École Annie Whiskeychan Memorial Elementary School / Waskaganish | Fierté Premières Nations : littératie en famille | $3,000 |
École Jacques-Rousseau / Radisson | Bibliothèque en choeur! | $2,500 |
New Brunswick winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
---|---|---|
Riverview High School / Riverview | www.CurrentGeneration.org | $3,000 |
Kingswood Academy Montessori School and Early Learning Centre / Moncton | KWA Monthly News | $2,700 |
École Sainte-Bernadette / Moncton | La vie scolaire durant le COVID | $1,160 |
Ontario
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
---|---|---|
Glengarry District High School / Alexandria | Outdoor washroom facility | $3,000 |
Regroupement Autisme Prescott-Russell / Casselman | Du plaisir pour les personnes autistes... | $3,000 |
Dr.J.M. Denison Secondary School / Newmarket | School (and hopefully one day Community) Garden | $3,000 |
École secondaire catholique régionale de Hawkesbury / Hawkesbury | Grands-frères, grandes-soeurs | $3,000 |
Parkdale Food Centre / Ottawa | Class Community Meal | $2,200 |
École secondaire catholique de Casselman / Casselman | L'école extérieure : dans la nature | $3,000 |
École élémentaire catholique Elda-Rouleau / Alexandria | Place aux arbres | $3,000 |
École secondaire publique Le Sommet / Hawkesbury | Mes activités hivernales, ma santé mentale! | $3,000 |
École élémentaire publique de la Rivière Castor / Embrun | Le sentier Joyce Chartrand | $3,000 |
Ashley Oaks Public School, Thames Valley District School Board / London | Kindergarten Outdoor Ed Renovation | $3,000 |
Community Crew / St. Catharines | Kids feeding Kids | $3,000 |
Jean Vanier Catholic School / London | High Interest Levelled Readers | $3,000 |
St. Rose Catholic Elementary School / Windsor | Outdoor learning | $2,500 |
Lake Simcoe Public School / Keswick | Kindergarten Outdoor Classroom Project | $3,000 |
ALPHA Education / Scarborough | Our Stories: Under-Represented Voices on Racism | $3,000 |
St. Thomas More Catholic School, ALCDSB / Kingston | Children Do Better When They Feel Better | $3,000 |
St. John Vianney School / Windsor | Interactive Sensory and Movement Hallway | $3,000 |
Sir William Mulock Secondary School / Newmarket | The Parker Project Collective | $2,000 |
Catholic Central High School, WECDSB / Windsor | The Social Value Project | $3,000 |
École secondaire catholique Le Relais / Alexandria | La santé de nos Ados | $3,000 |
École élémentaire catholique Saint-Viateur / Limoges | Jardin de lecture | $3,000 |
Youth Without Shelter / Etobicoke | Stay-in-School Program | $3,000 |
École secondaire catholique de Plantagenet / Plantagenet | Lire comme ça devrait | $3,000 |
École secondaire catholique Le Relais / Alexandria | Projet Intergénérationnel Communautaire | $3,000 |
École élémentaire catholique Curé-Labrosse / Saint-Eugène | La survie des monarques | $2,500 |
Rick Hansen Public School / London | Ukuleles for Music | $3,000 |
École élémentaire catholique Curé-Labrosse / Saint-Eugène | Notre cuisine entrepreneuriale | $3,000 |
Oakville Community FIRST Robotics Team Inc. / Oakville | Create several mini-robots | $3,000 |
Warren Park Junior Public School / Toronto | Warren Park Community Farm | $2,768 |
Summitview Public School / Whitchurch-Stouffville | Teaching Gardens at Summitview Public School | $3,000 |
Maison Tucker House / Rockland | Grow Green Club Pousse vert | $3,000 |
Women's Habitat of Etobicoke / Etobicoke | Together Virtually | $2,800 |
École secondaire catholique régionale de Hawkesbury / Hawkesbury | Zéro déchet | $3,000 |
Smiths Falls District Collegiate Institute / Smiths Falls | Nutritious is Delicious | $1,000 |
Christ the King French Immersion / Windsor | Peace Garden Renewal/Renouvellement du jardin | $2,500 |
Guiding Light Academy / Mississauga | Guiding Light Academy Coding Program | $3,000 |
Half Moon Bay Public School / Ottawa | Half Moon Day PS Outdoor Learning Classroom Space | $3,000 |
Outaouais winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
---|---|---|
École Laval, Établissement Le Rucher, Pavillon Laval / Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau | Des déplacements sécuritaires en temps de COVID | $500 |
Les Maisons des jeunes du Pontiac / Mansfield | Ados actif | $3,000 |
École Saint-Coeur-de-Marie / Ripon | Nouvelles saveurs | $1,500 |
Salon des jeunes de Thurso / Thurso | Projet jardin | $3,000 |
École de la Montagne / Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette | Petits cuistots à l’École de la Montagne | $3,000 |
École du Sacré-Coeur (Gatineau) / Gatineau | Tricoté serré | 400,$ |
École Polyvalente Le Carrefour / Gatineau | Carrefour-Vélo | $3,000 |
Mon Chez Nous inc. / Gatineau | un potager dans Mon chez nous | $3,000 |
École secondaire du Versant / Gatineau | Jouons pour notre santé mentale | $3,000 |
École secondaire Mont-Bleu / Gatineau | L'arrosoir à semis réfléchi, recyclé et robotisé! | $2,944 |
École Ste-Famille aux Trois-Chemins / Thurso | Un jardin partage avec la communauté | $3,000 |
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean winners
Institution/City | Project | Amount |
---|---|---|
École Notre-Dame-des-Anges / Dolbeau-Mistassini | L'effet miroir | $1,500 |
École secondaire des Grandes-Rivières, bâtiment Le Tournant / Dolbeau-Mistassini | Cuisiner pour se faire du bien | $2,000 |
École Jean XXIII / Saint-Thomas-Didyme | Vélo présco | $2,000 |
École secondaire Camille-Lavoie / Alma | Ma station de triage | $2,445 |
Maison des jeunes L'Entre-Parenthèse de Chambord / Chambord | Un coin parfait à notre image | $2,900 |
Maria-Goretti LA doré, CSS du pays des bleuets / La Doré | Journée sportive hivernale au tobo-ski | $3,000 |
École Le Roseau / Saguenay | L'École du Rock | $3,000 |
École Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption / Saguenay | Un équilibre avec l'école | $3,000 |
FGA Centre Le Parcours, CSS du Pays-des-Bleuets / Dolbeau-Mistassini | Une plante en cadeau | $2,500 |
École Jean-Gauthier / Alma | La serre des quatre saisons | $3,000 |
École secondaire de l'Odyssée / Dominique-Racine Saguenay | Nouer des liens - Ateliers de macramé | $800 |
Séminaire Marie-Reine-du-Clergé / Métabetchouan-Lac-à-la-Croix | Programme e-sports | $3,000 |
École Georges-Vanier / Saguenay | Apprendre au grand air | $3,000 |
École Sacré-Coeur, CSS du Pays-des-Bleuets / Dolbeau-Mistassini | La lecture, un plaisir à dévorer! | $3,000 |
École primaire Marguerite-Belley / Saguenay | Murale de la persévérance scolaire | $1,535 |
Puakuteu Programme d'accompagnement scolaire et social / Mashteuiatsh | Expérience culturelle 2.0 en nature | $3,000 |
The application period is now over
Thanks for participating. The winners were announced the week of December 7, 2020.
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Important dates
2020
October 5 to 26
Application period
October 27 to November 13
Applicants' eligibility verified
November 16 to 27
Desjardins Group directors and employees and Desjardins Insurance agents vote
December 7 to 11
Winners announced
2021
January and February
Prizes awarded to winners
Beyond the Classroom podcast series
Inspiring stories of teachers and educators who, with the help of the Desjardins Foundation prizes, brought their projects to life and helped kids stay in school.
Episode 1: Ms. Marie-Pierre’s Cards
Description (6 min 35 s)
To foster new relationships and work towards a common goal, a teacher and her special needs students start a greeting card business.
Episode 1: Ms. Marie-Pierre’s Cards
Added on October 21, 2020 | Desjardins Group
Note: The information in brackets describes the audio and visual content of the video that is not dialogue or narration.
[On-screen text: Beyond the Classroom]
[Narrator] Beyond the Classroom
[On-screen text: Ms. Marie-Pierre’s Cards]
[Child’s voice] Ms. Marie-Pierre’s Cards
[On-screen text: Desjardins Foundation Prizes]
[Narrator]: Everyone has a stake in keeping students motivated. The Desjardins Foundation Prizes were created to help teachers and educators find new ways of motivating young people to hang in there. This podcast will tell you about a few of these inspiring initiatives.
Kindness is truly a very strong value at La Tourelle school. Yes, we have regular classes, but we also have special education classes. So welcoming, including others, our classmates, with their differences, is a value that’s very strong in our school. And we’ve been working on it for several years.
As teachers, we experience all kinds of situations. One of the situations I experienced that stood out for me, and which led to the nice project that I launched with one of my colleagues, is actually a bit of a sad situation.
It’s a story of kids playing in the yard and a little girl with special needs who approaches them to play with them. It seems to go well at the beginning, but the game quickly takes a turn for the worse.
That is to say that the students give her little challenges, things to do, there’s laughter, and she plays along. For her, these are encouragements, so she continues.
Until a student arrives and says, “No, you’re laughing at her, she doesn’t understand what you’re doing.” The kids that were laughing and playing didn’t understand at the time that all of this was not kind to the different student.
After that, I thought to myself that if one of my students can do this, I want them all to be able to do it.
So if we’re lucky enough to have developed kindness, open-mindedness, respect among my group of 25 students, then they’ll also pass this on to friends of theirs, thus creating a big chain reaction.
So my fabulous colleague, named Christine Jacques, had the idea, “We’ll make paper together, Marie-Pierre.”
The goal of our project was, yes, to develop kindness in the students in the regular classes, and also break the isolation that the special needs students sometimes experience. So we decided to make paper, to make Christmas cards and other things together that the students could sell in their community, in their family, in order to raise money.
The first time I talked about the project, my students were a little unsure, looking at me as if to say, “Ah, it’s with the multi-handicap class, Ms. Marie-Pierre? Normally, we do projects with the 6th grade or the 4th-grade class.” And Ms. Marie-Pierre answered “Yes, we’re going to work with multi-handicaps and we’re going to make paper.”
[On-screen text]
“Are we making paper this week, Ms. Marie-Pierre?”
“Will we go to the Multi class this week, Ms. Marie-Pierre?”
“Are we seeing our friends from Ms. Christine’s class?”
[End of On-screen text]
So at the same time, when I started to explain to them what was expected of them, why I was doing this project, it was very motivating for them! They quickly got involved and then in no time were looking forward to every week. “Are we making paper this week, Ms. Marie-Pierre?”, “Will we go to the Multi class this week, Ms. Marie-Pierre? Are we seeing our friends from Ms. Christine’s class?”
So we threw ourselves into a grand endeavour, and it turned out as well that we had an excellent response. We had lots of cards to make, we worked through all sorts of steps with the students.
We had to rip up recycled paper. Then, we had to mash it. We also dried our recycled paper, which we took out from our little molds.
The students even learned to iron it to flatten it so that we had beautiful cards. And in the end, we did little plastic arts projects where we could decorate our cards.
[On-screen text]
Bravo!
Keep it up!
Super!
You’re the best!
[End of On-screen text]
We still had recycled paper at the end, however, so we said, “What can we do with this?”
So for School Perseverance and Motivation Week, we made little bookmarks that we printed little messages of encouragement on.
So, the conclusion of this nice project was to be a field trip to further broaden our horizons and visit the big city of Montreal. Unfortunately, Covid and the pandemic happened, so we were not allowed to experience this finish. We’re telling ourselves it’s only been postponed!
In other words, this is a project that we would very much like to redo and relive again. I’m certainly counting on getting my students back in contact with the mutli-handicap class every chance I get, to organize future projects.
Most of the time, that’s all kids need, as they’re kind by nature. They’re positive. And if this can inspire colleagues wherever they’re from, well, it will certainly be mission accomplished.
[On-screen text: Marie-Pierre Champagne, École de la Tourelle]
[Narrator] Are you inspired by Marie-Pierre Champagne’s story? Listen to the other episodes of the series Beyond the Classroom...
[On-screen text: This project was made possible by the Desjardins Foundation Prizes]
[Narrator] …to learn about other initiatives from winners of the Desjardins Foundation Prizes.
[On-screen text: We'd like to thank all the teachers and educators who help young people shine.]
[Desjardins logo]
[Narrator] Whether you’re a teacher, an educator or a parent, thanks for being involved with young people. You make all the difference.
[End of transcript]
Episode 2: Ms. Forest’s Bees
Description (5 min 20 s)
A beehive on a Quebec school’s rooftop becomes a group project.
Episode 2: Ms. Forest’s Bees
Added on October 21, 2020 | Desjardins Group
Note: The information in brackets describes the audio and visual content of the video that is not dialogue or narration.
[Image of a honey dipper, honey, and daisies on a yellow background. The daisies spin.]
[On-screen text: Beyond the Classroom]
Narrator: Beyond the Classroom
[Children’s voices and applause]
[On-screen text: Ms. Forest’s Bees]
Child: Ms. Forest’s Bees
[Image of a pot of honey.]
[Piano music in the background.]
[On-screen text: Desjardins Foundation Prizes]
Narrator: The Desjardins Foundation Prizes were created to help teachers and educators find new ways of motivating young people to keep at it. This podcast will tell you about a few of these inspiring initiatives.
[Music swells.]
[An animated bee flies onto the screen and off to the right.]
[Buzzing of a bee.]
[The bee flies around a globe and off to the right and down.]
Melanie: One little bee can have such a great impact on the world.
[As the bee flies down, the background changes to sky blue. The bee flies past a large school building.]
Melanie: I work in several schools. At one of my high schools, there was an opportunity where somebody brought a beehive to a high school setting. And I thought to myself, "Wow, this could really be a wonderful opportunity in an elementary school setting."
[The bee is joined by two other bees; they fly around and down to a small school building.]
Melanie: The school that I approached to bring the project is an inner city school and it's in an urban community. And I thought, "This would be a wonderful opportunity to bring in urban beekeeping within an urban setting." We often don't see a lot of agriculture in urban settings; our school yard is all concrete. The idea that we can bring in little bees and perhaps plant a garden to support the bees, this was really quite appealing to me.
[Close-up of an animated bee among some flowers.]
Melanie: Normally, when you think of bees, people are scared of bees. But when you start learning about bees and seeing that they actually work really, really hard, there's nothing to be scared of.
[Image of a heart-shaped honeycomb buzzing with bees.]
[Piano music.]
Melanie: We really wanted to involve the students simply in understanding what would be happening in the hive on a weekly basis.
[Close-up image of a honeycomb in the shape of a hexagon.]
Melanie: So we had an urban beekeeper who would come to the school every three weeks and she would give us updates. So the idea was to understand that there are different stages within taking care of a hive.
[Wide shot of the single honeycomb expanding in size. Small video play buttons appear on it.]
Melanie: And often, we would receive little videos or pictures that would be telling us exactly what was happening in the hive.
Melanie: We started off in a small classroom, and then the idea would be to take that knowledge…
[Transition back to the animated bees flying around the school.]
Melanie: ...and the kids would then create posters, the kids would perhaps even present to other classrooms and share what they learned…
[A speech bubble above the school quickly counts up the number of “likes”.]
Melanie: … and then the idea would pollinate throughout the school.
[Transition to a yellow background. Lines of blue circles fill the screen.]
Melaine: Four hundred little pins were created…
[Zoom in on the blue circle in the centre of the screen.]
[On-screen text: Bee Kind, Bee Nice, Bee Generous, Bee Yourself]
Melanie: ...and all the kids would create a saying on it that would either be “Bee Kind,” “Bee Nice,” “Bee Generous,” “Bee Yourself.”
[An animated bee flies onto the screen. The on-screen text changes and the bee continues flying around.]
[On-screen text: Bee Day]
Melanie: And we would actually have a whole Bee Day party. You know, a celebration: you're here, we're welcoming you, and we're embracing that you are now part of our school, you’re our little neighbors that live upstairs.
[Transition to an image of a bee smoker on a yellow background. A beehive appears beside it.]
Melanie: For most people and most students, they don't even imagine the idea that you can actually have a beehive come to your school and have a beekeeper, an urban beekeeper, come and explain to you what urban beekeeping is. So there was a lot of interest and a lot of questions.
[The smoker blows smoke on the animated bees buzzing around the beehive.]
Melanie: And honestly, they were questions you would never think of because kids have the most unique questions! It was really exciting to see where their minds went with it.
[Transition to an image of colourful flowers on a pink background. An animated bee flies among them as the flowers spin.]
Melanie: It allowed them to develop some critical thinking, some critical questions. It gave them a level of wanting to learn, to engage in their learning.
[Piano music.]
[The bee flies up off the screen as the background transitions to yellow. Individual images of bees appear.]
[On-screen text: Worker, Queen, Drone]
Melanie: Within the hive, there's worker bees, there's the queen bees, there's the drones, there's the bees that just go out and pollinate and come back.
[Transition back to the bee buzzing around spinning flowers on a pink background.]
Melanie: So they were able to learn all the different roles and see that a beehive can be symbolic of how we can work together in the world. If we all have different roles, we all have different importances…
[The bee flies down and the screen transitions to an image of a honeycomb in the shape of a thumbs up.]
Melanie: ...but when we all work together for the greater good, we all come out on top as well.
[Piano music.]
[A bee flies off to the right and the background becomes white. Text flies up from the bottom of the screen.]
[On-screen text: BzZzZzZz]
Melanie: We have one last visit to the school from the beekeeper where she's going to come and close up the hive for the winter because it's getting cold outside and the bees are going to have to go to sleep for the winter.
[Transition to an angled image of honey dippers and pots of honey on a yellow background.]
Melanie: But at the same time, she's going to bring a hive that has been working all summer and the bees have been creating honey.
[The image rotates to the left and fades, leaving a single pot of honey in the centre.]
Melanie: The honey will be extracted and processed, and we're going to receive about 100 jars of honey.
[The pot of honey multiplies until the screen is full of rows of honey pots.]
Melanie: We're really hoping that we'll be able to sell the honey simply so that we can start collecting more funds so that we can continue the project for next year. I'm hoping the children, the students, will come up with something creative that we can do. I'll leave that up to them.
[Transition to a blue background.]
Melanie: When you allow them to engage in entrepreneurship, they come up with the best ideas. So we’re really hoping that the impact will continue to grow in the community…
[A pot of honey appears in the centre of the screen.]
Melanie: ...because they're able to see that their little actions that they can do right now…
[Circle wipe transition to a yellow background. Animated hearts fly up from the honey pot.]
Melanie: ...can make the world a better place.
[Piano music.]
[A photograph of Melanie holding a “Save the bees” bag.]
[On-screen text: Melanie Forest, LaSalle Elementary Senior School]
Narrator: Are you inspired by Melanie’s story? Listen to the other episodes of the series, Beyond the Classroom…
[On-screen text: This project was made possible by The Desjardins Foundation Prizes.]
Narrator: ...to learn about other initiatives from winners of the Desjardins Foundation Prizes.
[On-screen text: We'd like to thank all the teachers and educators who help young people shine.]
Narrator: Whether you’re a teacher, an educator or a parent, thanks for being involved with young people. You make all the difference.
[Desjardins logo]
[End of transcript]
Episode 3: Mr. Guillaume’s Graffiti
Description (6 min 40 s)
A youth centre facilitator shares his passion for graffiti, leading a young participant to win a local contest.
Episode 3: Mr. Guillaume’s Graffiti
Added on October 21, 2020 | Desjardins Group
Note: The information in brackets describes the audio and visual content of the video that is not dialogue or narration.
[On-screen text: Beyond the Classroom]
[Children’s voices.]
Narrator: Beyond the Classroom
[On-screen text: Mr. Guillaume’s Graffiti]
Teenager’s voice: Mr. Guillaume’s Graffiti
[Piano music.]
[Image of a can of spray paint.]
[On-screen text: Desjardins Foundation Prizes]
Narrator: Helping students stay in school is everyone’s business. The Desjardins Foundation Prizes were created to help teachers and educators find new ways of motivating young people to keep at it and believe in themselves. This podcast will tell you about a few of these inspiring initiatives and the people behind them.
[Music ends. Voices can be heard in the background.]
[A Polaroid picture of a youth centre following the spray painted lines of a graffiti in progress.]
Guillaume: Having the youth centre inside the school, but also in the community, is motivating for certain young people, this I’m sure of.
[Piano music resumes.]
Guillaume: For me, the youth centre has been part of my life since 1996 already.
[A Polaroid picture of a hand giving the “V sign” (index and middle fingers raised) with “1996” written on it appears next to the Polaroid of the youth centre. The Polaroid of the youth centre continues to follow the lines of a graffiti.]
Guillaume: At that time, I was 12 years old and I was involved in school committees, then at a certain point, I had a particular project.
Guillaume: The people from the Youth Centre had said to me, “Hey, Guillaume, we’d like to hook up with you on this project.” So I said yes, then I started to go there regularly.
[A Polaroid picture of a hand giving the “rock on” sign (thumb, index and pinkie fingers raised) with “2002” written on it appears next to the Polaroid of the youth centre.]
Guillaume: And then, once I was 18 years old, I could no longer go to the youth centre so I started to work there as a facilitator. It’s been the only job I’ve had since I started working.
[The Polaroid of the youth centre continues to follow the lines of a graffiti. A Polaroid picture of a hand giving the “thumbs up” sign (thumb raised) with “2020” written on it appears next to the Polaroid of the youth centre. The Polaroid of the youth centre continues to follow the lines of a graffiti.]
[A basketball can be heard bouncing in t
he background.]Guillaume: I quickly got the importance of how when you want things done, it’s kind of up to you to make sure they get done. This is true when you’re a teen, and it’s true when you’re an adult too.
[The youth centre flies up and out of the Polaroid picture and takes off like a rocket, leaving a graffiti-like exhaust trail in its wake.]
Guillaume: This desire to get involved in the community began to take shape when I started going to the youth centre regularly, and it still plays an important role in my life today. I think you have to start out small, with something like this.
[The youth centre flies up and over a ladder. A bullseye target appears centre-screen. Balls bounce off of it. A dart hits the centre of the target.]
Guillaume: We’re about offering recreational time, but we’re not a recreational organization. Sometimes people think we only do recreational activities, but there’s a very specific objective to the various activities that we organize. We aim to create a bond with young people, to develop a meaningful relationship. And it’s through these activities, recreational or otherwise, that we develop a bond with young people. And this helps us do even better prevention and awareness work, which makes us a meaningful adult role model for young people.
[Hands come in from each side of the screen and fist bump each other in a gesture of unity.]
[An airplane flying can be heard.]
[A map shows a plane taking off from Quebec and flying overseas to touch down in Belgium. A heart-shaped graffiti is drawn beside Belgium.]
Guillaume: We went to Belgium in 2011 for a community involvement project. In Europe, the art of graffiti was very, very common. In 2013, we welcomed our first Belgian group here. We had a brainstorming session, then we made graffiti. It was a really great experience.
[The plane turns around and takes off from Belgium to fly back to Quebec.]
Guillaume: The graffiti that we did with the young Belgians is still in our youth centres, and it’s the same thing over there; the graffiti we did with the Belgians is in their centres too.
[A rough sketch of a graffiti is spray painted on a sheet of graph paper using a stencil.]
Guillaume: For this project, we asked young people to create graffiti, or more specifically, to sketch out what they would like to have as graffiti. Then we hired a professional graffiti artist to really get the young people into it, and also give them techniques, and give them ideas.
[Children’s voices.]
Guillaume: The advantage of having a professional artist with us, is that the things young people learn are even better. Because it’s his job, his specialty, his passion. But the artist isn’t there to do the graffiti for the young people, otherwise we’d be a bit off target with our youth centre project philosophy, which is “by and for youth”.
[The graffiti on the piece of paper is revealed: it’s a tree.]
[On-screen text: By and for youth]
[Many different coloured cans of spray paint fly around the screen.]
Guillaume: What I find interesting in this is that it promotes an art form that’s not very common here, outside of the city, and it demystifies this art form, which is sometimes associated with vandalism, when that’s not the case at all, depending on the way it’s used.
[Piano music resumes.]
Guillaume: What’s interesting is that it’s an art form that can communicate messages in an original way. So we did graffiti about tolerance of differences,
[The flags of several countries scroll across the screen.]
Guillaume: …whether in terms of ethnicity or sexual orientation. We made these two graffiti as a way to raise awareness. It’s an original form of prevention, and it’s permanently there in the school.
[On-screen text: It’s the pride of making it to the end of the process.]
Guillaume: What this offers to youth? Well, first of all, it’s the pride of making it to the end of the process. I think this project, like others, ends up building their self-esteem too.
[On-screen text: It ends up building their self-esteem.]
[Feet in running shoes walk up some steps.]
Guillaume: Because what may seem tough at the beginning, or what you may have doubts about at the start, in the end, when you take it one step at a time, when you have someone to guide you, as was the case with the graffiti, when you consider the final product in front of you, it’s you who made it happen. I think this builds self-esteem in young people.
[Applause.]
[An image of an envelope appears. A “1” in a red circle in the top right indicates an unread message.]
Guillaume: A few years ago, one of the participants that we’d been in Belgium with sent me an email, perhaps two or three years later, when she’d grown into a young adult, no longer a youth benefiting from the services of the youth centre.
[The envelope opens. Confetti flies out of it and the “1” in the red circle turns into a 1st place ribbon. Several cans of spray paint fly out of the envelope.]
[Applause.]
Guillaume: She had submitted an application to do graffiti on an overpass, and her application was accepted, she did the graffiti on the overpass, which is still there today, in the neighbouring city. So sometimes, what we do can spark a new passion in young people.
[Lots of different coloured cans of spray paint fall from the sky.]
Guillaume: When you have fond memories, when you feel a sense of belonging to your youth centre, to your community, I believe that it can have an impact on the career you choose to pursue outside of the city.
[The Polaroid of the youth centre reappears. A line of spray paint advances toward the camera and then moves past two other Polaroid pictures.]
Guillaume: For me, what I went through as a teenager, I didn’t have trouble at school, but I also wasn’t very motivated either. What interested me was everything that was happening outside of school.
[A can of spray paint appears in the centre of the screen. Animated hearts fly up from the can.]
Guillaume: So yes, I think that having the youth centre inside the school, but also in the community, is motivating for certain young people, this I’m sure of.
[Piano music resumes.]
[A photograph of Guillaume.]
[On-screen text: Guillaume Rodrigue, Maison des jeunes l’Olivier des Etchemins]
VO CONCLUSION
Narrator: Are you inspired by Guillaume Rodrigue’s story? Listen to the other episodes of the series, Beyond the Classroom…
[On-screen text: This project was made possible by The Desjardins Foundation Prizes.]
Narrator: ...to learn about other initiatives from winners of the Desjardins Foundation Prizes.
[On-screen text: We’d like to thank all the teachers and educators who help young people shine.]
Narrator: Whether you’re a teacher, an educator or a parent, thanks for being involved with young people. You make all the difference.
[Music ends.]
[Desjardins logo]
[End of transcript]

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