Student Welcome Card teaches Olympic rower priceless life lesson
One of 8,000 welcome cards produced by B.C. students for athletes and Games officials. In the video below, Canadian Olympian Dave Calder talks about the impact these cards carry — from an athlete’s p.o.v.
When the British Columbia Ministry of Education made the decision to develop a Vancouver 2010 Olympic Education Program, we thought who better to talk to than a B.C. athlete who has gone through the experience of competing at an Olympic Games.
We decided to approach Victoria’s three-time Canadian Olympic rower and 2008 Olympic Silver medallist David Calder. As a key contributor to the Ministry of Education’s Vancouver 2010 Olympic Education program, Calder gave us the idea to create the Student Welcome Cards program.
The program has been an absolute success! B.C. students submitted nearly 8,000 different Student Welcome Card designs that have been used to create 70,000 cards for visiting Olympic and Paralympic athletes, coaches and dignitaries who stay at the Winter Games athlete villages.
Click on the image above and listen to Dave Calder explain how a Student Welcome Card he received from a young boy who he had never before met, taught him a priceless life lesson while competing at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
