From the monthly archives: October 2011
Interested in ocean rowing and crab fishing with an Olympic Gold Medalist? Adam has offered to take the highest bidder in Rowing Canada Aviron’s auction fundraiser for an ocean adventure in Victoria BC, in a sleek stable Whitehall Spirit® open water rowing boat. Learn to row and catch yourself a fabulous dinner!
Funds [...]
Read More →Adam and OAR Northwest are preparing to circumnavigate Vancouver Island in April 2012. The 700 mile row is one of several training adventures his team will undertake in preparation for their crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in December 2012.
The crew will stop and visit with communities along the coast of Vancouver Island [...]
Read More →Adam has teamed up with Robert Bateman and his Get To Know Program to encourage the next generation to step outdoors and spend more time engaged with nature. Adam will be speaking on Saturday in Jasper, AB, at the annual Unconference, a unique gathering of Youth Ambassadors, leading green corporations, NGOs, and government [...]
Read More →First, I love to learn. Taking on new challenges is a great way to expand your potential and gain new skills and perspective. Rowing across the Atlantic will be physically trying, but even more challenging are our current preparations of logistics and team dynamics. These are the elements that inspired me to take on this [...]
Read More →1) Why is Adam rowing across the Atlantic in 2012?
First, I love to learn. Taking on new challenges is a great way to expand your potential and gain new skills and perspective. Rowing across the Atlantic will be physically trying, but even more challenging are our current preparations of logistics and team dynamics. These [...]
Read More →Adam will row from Africa to South America in December 2012 with three teammates from Washington, USA. The crew will be raising funds for Right To Play and collecting data on human physiology and ocean biology, physics and chemistry for researchers at the University of Washington, WA, and the University of Calgary, AB.
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Read More →Adam spoke Friday at the international 21st Century Learning Leadership Forum in Banff, AB. The conference brought together key thinkers on education from around the globe to discuss synergies between the forum themes of Careers, Learning, Globalization and Sustainability (economic/environment). Forum speakers challenged current thinking on building and sustaining a learning society in [...]
Read More →The Canadian Olympic Committee has launched its 2012 fundraising and popular Red Mittens. Since their inception in 2009, Red Mitten sales have raised $18.9 million in support of the Canadian Olympic Foundation.
New mittens, for a new Olympic Games, but the goal remains the same – support Canada’s Olympic Athletes.
Adam hit the streets on [...]
Read More →Adam was pleased to have the opportunity to attend the Youth Resilience Project’s “I Can” conference as a special guest speaker, where he urged youth to pursue their goals, stay focused and avoid being hindered by presumptions of failure.
He shared two key lessons with the group. First, to fail successfully. “Learning how to fail [...]
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