British Columbia secondary school teacher Andrew Young (BA’90, BEd’92) has won the 2019 Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy for his significant contributions in this realm. As a geography teacher at Georges P. Vanier Secondary, he is passionate about connecting the curriculum to the real world by getting students out of the classroom.

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Andrew Young is a self-proclaimed “geovangelist.”

The Courtenay teacher can now add award-winner to that title.

Early in his career, Young volunteered for two summers at St. Theresa’s Secondary Technical School in Gambia with the Nova Scotia Gambia Association, a program funded by the Government of Canada.

This experience changed his life and taught him about different ways of living, knowing, and learning. Today, Young teaches geography at Georges P. Vanier Secondary where he works to connect classroom concepts to real-world issues.

For his significant contributions to geographic literacy, Young has won the 2019 Alex Trebek Medal for Geographic Literacy.

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