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Prerequisite: Chess: Intermediate Continuation Class 
When: Mondays from 10:00 - 11:00am April 13 - May 18
Where: Online

This Workshop is for students who have completed the beginner and intermediate chess workshops and are ready for some fine tuning to their skills. 

Students have learned core chess concepts, while solving puzzles to improve problem solving skills . In Advanced Chess, it's time to put those skills into action. This class focuses on real-time game playing with personalized coaching, and adds in new concepts that take the game to the next level.

When: Wednesdays, 9–10 a.m.: 15 April (15 April, 22 April, 29 April, 6 May, 13 May and 20 May)
Who: Grade 9 and up
Cost: $295
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams

Investing can be overwhelming, but it is also essential to our financial futures. Investing is unavoidable: it affects us and our families both directly and indirectly, and the investment industry itself is enormous. Globally, investment markets are worth hundreds of trillions of dollars. Whether we like it or not, investing is a fundamental part of life in the twenty-first century. In this course, Travis Callaway will make investing easy to understand, using practical examples and real-life scenarios to help students learn how to invest their own money responsibly. The course includes six lessons, each focusing on a different part of the overall investment puzzle.

A minimum of five registrants is required for this workshop to run.

When: Wednesdays, 10–11 a.m.: 15 April (15 April, 22 April, 29 April, 6 May, 13 May and 20 May)
Who: Grade 9 and up
Cost: $295
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams

Most of the world’s wealthiest people are not members of royal families, Hollywood celebrities or heirs to vast fortunes. They are almost exclusively entrepreneurs—people who started their own businesses. And anyone can start a business.

But how? Even the idea can feel overwhelming. In this course, Travis Callaway makes starting a business simple to understand, using practical examples and real-life scenarios drawn from teaching entrepreneurship and business planning at universities. Students will learn how to plan and prepare to launch their own businesses.

The course includes six lessons that guide students through the full business-planning and business-launching journey.

When: Fridays, 9–10 a.m.: April 17 (April 17, April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15, and May 22)
Who: Grade 9 and up
Cost: $295
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams

Money and Finance Made Easy: Money can be a mystery. What is it? How does it work? How do I earn it? How do I save it? How do I invest it? Whether we like it or not, money affects us all and is essential to our lives in the twenty-first century. In this course, Travis Callaway will make money and the financial decisions we all encounter simple to understand, using practical examples and real-life scenarios to help students prepare for their financial futures. The course includes six lessons, each focusing on a separate piece of the overall financial puzzle:

1. What Is Money, and How Does It Work?
2. Banking Basics
3. Budgeting and Spending Wisely
4. Credit, Debt, and Credit Cards
5. Saving and Investing for the Future
6. Real-World Financial Decisions

Travis earned an MBA in finance from Durham University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He has worked as a private equity analyst, a senior portfolio management analyst, a director of private equity, a managing director of venture capital, the vice president of finance for a technology start-up, and a part-time chief financial officer for several companies. He is an active investor in start-up companies, the co-founder of a finance advisory business, and teaches business and finance at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University.

A minimum of five registrants is required for this workshop to run, so please spread the word.

When: Fridays, 10–11 a.m.: April 17 (April 17, April 24, May 1, May 8, May 15, and May 22)
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams
Who: Grades 9 and up

Planning for a career can be challenging at the best of times. The rapid advancement of AI, which is upending industries and labour markets, can feel overwhelming. Whether we like it or not, we need to plan to work in a world that is being permanently changed by AI. In this course, Travis Callaway, an AI investor, university instructor, and businessman, will help students prepare for higher education and career decisions in the age of AI, using practical examples and real-life scenarios so that students can prudently plan for their workplace futures.

Testing dates for CLT3-8 can be any day from April 20 through June 26.

The Classical Learning Test 3-8 (CLT 3-8) is for students in grades 3 to 8. These tests focus on numeracy and literacy, and can be a useful diagnostic and summative assessment tool. Tests taken year to year can be useful for tracking student growth. CLT 3-8 can be conveniently accessed from home.

• Preparation is not recommended as these exams are intended to be a benchmark that provides feedback to parents about their students’ strengths and areas for improvement.
• Results for CLT 3-8 are shared with families at the end of the testing window, but they can be requested early if desired (as early as two days after a test is completed).
• Diagnostic and summative exams to track growth and provide academic assessment
• Norm-Referenced 
• Online format - Parent Proctored
• Length: Approximately 2-3 hours

When: 9:00 - 10:30 am Tues/Thurs, Apr 21 to May 29 in time for June '26 diploma exam

This workshop is intended to assist students who are preparing for the written portion of the English 30 Diploma exam. Students will learn to decode essay prompts and utilize effective essay formatting. Applicants need to have advanced writing experience.

This workshop covers the 2 essay types of the written portion of the exam: the Critical/Analytical Response to Literature and the Personal Response. Students will be taken through a 6 week program to cover each of the 7 scoring categories of the exam to help students achieve the highest score they can. Students will meet up to 90 minutes twice a week, and will have lots of hands-on writing practice and feedback. Marks for essays and mock-exam in this workshop may be used toward the ELA course challenge portfolio.

Workshop acceptance based upon application. A maximum of eight students will be accepted.

If you are considering writing the 30-2 diploma - or you'd like to know the difference between these two exams - please contact Kathy.