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Tweet Away! It’s Rogers Youth Education Day!

September 25, 2013 By Lena

I’ve always been THAT girl.

The daughter of immigrant parents. Parents who valued education above the latest fashions (Cotton Ginny sweatshirts), the latest fad (New Kids on the Block book covers) and the latest must-have (jelly shoes, of course). I’ve always been the little girl who tried to excel at every subject in life; who completed the bonus question on every test, and with each mark of 97/100, instead of being congratulated, was judiciously asked “What happened? Why did you get 3 wrong?”

(I promise to never do that to my boys.)

I’ve always been the girl who engaged in friendly competition with the other “brainers”; who aimed for the best report card, the highest praise, the most impressive GPA. And when I fell 2 points shy of graduating with “Honours”, I retook a university French course in my fourth year, just so that I could forever have the letters Hons. BComm immortalized following my name.

Lena Almeida, Hons. BComm

Yes, I’ve always been *slightly* ambitious. And I’ve always had a healthy respect for education.

Today is Rogers Youth Education Day, which is an initiative of Rogers Youth Fund. It supports various youth-focused programs led by non-profit partners across the country, including a range of educational programs that help provide young people with the skills, tools and opportunities they need to excel inside the classroom and beyond.

Tweet with the #BrighterFuture hashtag on Twitter or share Rogers’ Facebook Photo. For every tweet with the hashtag or Facebook share, they’ll donate $1 toward the purchase of a mobile tech unit (to a maximum of $250,000) to be given to partners for youth education purposes.

A mobile tech unit will provide mobile internet technology to Rogers Youth Fund participants, giving them the ability to access information and get help with school work outside of the classroom. Each unit contains 5 tablets, a Rocket mobile hotspot and LTE connectivity provided by Rogers.

Tweet with the #BrighterFuture hashtag. With every tweet, @RogersBuzz will donate $1 towards a mobile unit for youth education.

— Lena Almeida (@Listen2Lena) September 25, 2013

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: #BrighterFuture, Rogers Youth Education Day, Rogers Youth Fund

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  1. RogersSarahM

    September 25, 2013 at 9:20 am

    Thanks for the wonderful post, Lena, and for your support with Rogers Youth Education Day!

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:42 am

      A pleasure!

  2. Tricha

    September 25, 2013 at 9:54 am

    Great cause Lena. I will be supporting this by tweeting.

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:42 am

      Thank you Tricha :)

  3. Kat E.

    September 25, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    Thanks for sharing this! I’ll be tweeting to support Rogers Youth Education Day for sure!

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:42 am

      Thanks Kat!

  4. Chandra Christine O'Connor

    September 25, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    wow that is so great they are doing that.

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:42 am

      It is!

  5. michael

    September 26, 2013 at 7:00 am

    #Iloverogers lol.

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:42 am

      #RogersRed

  6. Flora M

    September 26, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    Darn, I missed it. But I do applaud Rogers for supporting this initiative ! I have been a Rogers customer for a long time now, always knew there was a good reason to like them ;o)

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:43 am

      Thanks for chiming in, Flora!

  7. Judy C (Cowan)

    September 26, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    Thanks for sharing. I will send a Tweet out!

    • Lena

      October 7, 2013 at 3:43 am

      Thanks Judy!

  8. Crystal

    October 16, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    stuff like this is so important!

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    September 26, 2013 at 2:08 pm

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