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Social science programs

Debate clubs, Model UN, youth councils and the Alberta Youth Parliament.

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High School Model United Nations, University of Alberta (HSMUN)

University of Alberta students (HSMUN)
  • 3 days (February 18–20, 2027)
  • High school
  • Edmonton (University of Alberta, Tory Building)
Has a fee
Nov 5, 8 days left
Details

House of Commons Page Program

House of Commons of Canada
  • One academic year, about 15 hours a week around full-time studies
  • Apply in Grade 12, work during your first year of university
  • Parliament Hill, Ottawa, and you study at the University of Ottawa, Carleton, Saint Paul University or Université du Québec en Outaouais
Pays you
Nov 8, 11 days left
Details

Rotary Youth Exchange, Long-Term (Alberta)

Rotary District 5360 (southern Alberta) and District 5370 (northern Alberta)
  • 10–11 months abroad, August to June or July
  • Ages 15.5 to 17.9 at departure
  • Abroad, living with 2–4 host families and attending school full-time
Nov 15, 18 days left
Details

Vimy Pilgrimage Award

The Vimy Foundation
  • About one week in April, plus preparation before departure
  • Ages 15 to 17
  • Belgium and France
Free
Nov 25, 28 days left
Details

National Youth Remembrance Contests, Royal Canadian Legion

Royal Canadian Legion
  • One entry each fall
  • Kindergarten to Grade 12 (senior category for high school)
  • Through your local Legion branch, with video entries online
Free
Dec 15, 48 days left
Details

Diamond Challenge, High School Entrepreneurship

Horn Entrepreneurship, University of Delaware
  • September to April, with a concept submission, pitch rounds, and a summit for finalists
  • Ages 14–18
  • Online, with an in-person summit for finalists (April 29–30, 2027)
Free
Jan 14, 78 days left
Details

North American Computational Linguistics Open (NACLO)

NACLO, hosted in Alberta by the University of Alberta's Alberta Language Technology Lab
  • Open Round January 28, 2027, and Invitational Round March 18, 2027
  • High school (ages 13–18)
  • Host sites, including the University of Alberta North Campus in Edmonton
Jan 28, 92 days left
Details

Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition

  • Pitches due February 21, 2027, with winners announced in May
  • High school
  • Online
Free
Feb 21, 116 days left
Details

LaunchX Virtual Summer Program

LaunchX (MIT-affiliated)
  • 5 weeks (summer, virtual)
  • Grades 9–12
  • Virtual (online, open to Alberta students), with a tuition fee and need-based aid available
Has a fee
Mar 31, 154 days left
Details

Student Police Academy, Calgary Police Service

Calgary Police Service and the Calgary Police Youth Foundation
  • One day in May
  • Grade 12
  • Heritage Park, Calgary
Apr 23, 177 days left
Details

JA Southern Alberta, Company Program

Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta
  • 20 weeks, about 3 hours per week
  • Grades 9–12
  • Calgary and southern Alberta (in-school or after-school)
Open now, no deadline
Details

JA Northern Alberta, Company Program

Junior Achievement Northern Alberta
  • Runs as an in-school or after-school cohort through the school year
  • Grades 9–12 (JA serves grades 3–12)
  • Edmonton and northern Alberta (in-school, after-school, or self-directed)
Open now, no deadline
Details

Alberta Debate and Speech Association Tournaments

Alberta Debate and Speech Association (ADSA)
  • Tournament season through the school year, with provincials in the spring
  • Junior and senior high school
  • Alberta-wide (tournaments hosted across the province)
Open now, no deadline
Details

Experiences Canada Group Exchanges

Experiences Canada (funded by the Government of Canada)
  • 7–10 days per visit, hosting and travelling (reciprocal homestays)
  • Ages 12–17
  • Anywhere in Canada (reciprocal, with a twinned group)
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

The Concord Review

  • Self-paced, with one research essay of 5,000 to 10,000 words or more
  • Grades 9–12
  • Online submission, open to secondary students anywhere
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations

Canadian Heritage (Government of Canada)
  • 6 to 16 weeks, full or part time
  • Ages 16-30, in school
  • Museums, archives, libraries and heritage sites across Canada
Pays you
Open now, no deadline
Details

Poetry In Voice, National Recitation Competition

Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie
  • Online qualifier in February and March, national finals in April
  • Grades 10–12 for Senior (Junior is grades 7–9)
  • Online qualifiers, with Senior National Finals in Toronto (April 17–21, 2027)
Free
Opens Feb 1, due Mar 4
Details

Calgary Police Cadet Corps

Calgary Police Service and the Calgary Police Youth Foundation
  • Thursday evenings September to May, plus weekend exercises, for up to five years
  • Ages 12-16 to join (members stay until 18)
  • Calgary
Free
Opens Nov 1, due Mar 31
Details

Historica Canada, Heritage Fairs & Young Citizens

Historica Canada
  • Several months (research + regional fair)
  • Grades 7–12
  • Alberta-wide (regional fairs) + national showcase
Opens later, date not posted
Details

Forum for Young Canadians

  • One week in Ottawa, February 7–12, February 28 to March 5, or April 18–23, 2027
  • Grades 10–12
  • Ottawa, Ontario (in-person), open to Alberta students
Has a fee
Opens later, date not posted
Details

YMCA Youth Exchanges Canada

YMCA Canada
  • Minimum 5 days in each community
  • Ages 12–17
  • Various Canadian provinces (open to Alberta students)
Opens later, date not posted
Details

Canadian Geographic Challenge

Canadian Geographic Education (Royal Canadian Geographical Society)
  • Classroom and school rounds, then provincial and national finals
  • Grades 7–10, with Level 3 open to ages 16–19
  • School-based across Alberta (online or print), with a national final
Free
Opens later, date not posted
Details

High School Model UN, University of Calgary

Department of Political Science, University of Calgary
  • 2-day conference during the school year
  • High school
  • Calgary (University of Calgary campus)
Opens later, date not posted
Details

Alberta Youth Parliament (TUXIS Parliament of Alberta)

Alberta Youth Parliament / TUXIS Parliamentary Alumni Society of Alberta
  • Winter session in the last week of December, plus regional events
  • Ages 15 to 21
  • Edmonton (Alberta Legislature Building)
Opens later, date not posted
Details

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Halloween in Alberta

A crowd in evening dress under paper lanterns at a Halloween party in Edmonton in 1906
Edmonton, 1906 A Halloween party at the Prince Arthur Café
Guests in pointed witch hats with skull badges at a Halloween party in Wainwright in the 1920s
Wainwright, 1920s Witch hats and skull badges at a Halloween party
Four children in costumes standing among pine trees in Mountain Park in 1934
Mountain Park, 1934 Beulah Godby and friends in costume, in a coal town that is a ghost town now
A woman dressed as an angel and a man dressed as a devil with a pitchfork, standing in the snow in Claresholm in 1949
Claresholm, 1949 First place costumes at the skating carnival
Children in Halloween masks and a witch hat lined up against a wooden wall around 1950
Little Smoky River, About 1950 Animal masks and a witch hat
A pumpkin carved with a glowing bison head on a porch in Edmonton on Halloween 2024
Edmonton, 2024 A bison carved into a pumpkin on Halloween night Photo by Joli Rumi, CC BY-SA 4.0

From the Provincial Archives of Alberta, and one Edmonton porch. Photo credits