To piggyback on this thread - - - DS has been invited to the regular spring awards ceremony for a SCAT I'd almost forgotten he wrote (grade 5, done over a year ago). I'm trying to figure out if there is a good reason to go? I'm not seeing any events or activities (or even university tours) attached to this at all, just the one-hour awards ceremony itself. Old threads suggest it's pretty missable.
Has anyone been before/ plan to go this year, and is there more to it that would make it worthwhile?
We went last year and will go again this year because it is close to where we live and DS loves to collect the pins that they hand out at the ceremony. It is an entirely missable event if you are busy. There are no tours or any other special events associated with it for this year. Usually, there is a motivational speech given before the event by a volunteer who runs the ceremony. We use it as an opportunity to take DS out for lunch as an appreciation for his efforts at school and we walk around the college campus and return home. So, if you have better things to do on that day, you would not have missed much by skipping it
It was eye opening for DS to go there and see the hundreds of kids participating in the awards ceremony. For DS, who was the youngest last year, it was a good experience to see that there were so many motivated youngsters and he met a few kids that he already knew there and he was happy that they could go to future CTY camps together.
