Shad Valley
Mission

Shad Valley's mission is to provide a transformational experience that unleashes the entrepreneurial and innovative potential of exceptional youth.

How we achieve our Mission

  • Shad Valley is a diverse extended community of leaders dedicated to the development of remarkable youth, helping them to recognize, harness, and strengthen their talents.

  • At Shad Valley, we surround high-potential youth with excellence, and stimulate their creativity. We nurture their initiative, skills, values, and desire to solve important problems, while challenging them to meet the highest standards of ethical conduct, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability.

  • The Shad Valley programs build on an academic foundation of mathematics, science, engineering, and entrepreneurship to develop intellectual excellence in our students. These are the tools they will use to excel and to innovate, during the programs and in their futures.


    In short, we want to find the best, and make them better.

Shad Valley Values

  • CREATIVITY: We cherish the freedom to explore, create, and innovate.

  • EXCELLENCE: We aspire to excellence in all we do.

  • COMMUNITY: We are committed to the respect, cooperation, and shared fun that builds a powerful, supportive community, while remaining mindful of the safety and well-being of that community.

  • DIVERSITY: We value diversity and open discussion.

  • RESPONSIBILITY: Our behaviour is always governed by respect for others and the highest standards of ethical conduct.
 

Wide-ranging group assembled @ UBC's Open Day
Sponsors, participants, board, and staff gathered at UBC’s Open Day...

Three Shad Alum Sweep 2010 FilterForGood Eco-Challenge
Three Shad alumni are 2010 recipients of the Eco-Challenge Student Grant...

Shad Entrepreneurship Cup Team Featured on CBC Radio One
Alum Nicholas Schiefer interviewed on CBC Radio's As it Happens...

Shad alum entrepreneur Tony Brijpaul shares his start up story
Tony Brijpaul (UNB 1999) visited 3 Shad Valley programs...

 

“...have returned to our school inspired, excited, and recommitted to learning...”
~ Leona Woods (Shad Educator)