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NFL star Christian Covington returns home to host annual free football camp
September 21, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer Christian Covington, defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Chargers in the National Football League (NFL), hosted his fourth annual football camp on June 26 at O’Hagan Field in Vancouver. The camp ran from 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. and included a Q&A session with Covington and a few of his NFL friends, including Emmanuel Ellerbee, Whitney Mercilus, and current teammate Joe Gaziano. “I mentioned free camp for kids and a free trip, and they were like ‘sign me up,’” joked Covington about recruiting his friends. “I only bring guys that I know are going to encompass everything…
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Funding uncertain for SFU’s Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal Students
September 18, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor Updated September 21, 2018: Dr. Veselin Jungic has reached out to The Peak to indicate that the paraphrase at the end of this article which indicated that "he is convinced the camp's future on this…
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AI summer camp aims to encourage high school girls to get involved in STEM
August 3, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer The SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences held Invent the Future, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) summer camp, to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. During the two…
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Student-run science camps for kids get funding boost from Rogers
September 3, 2017The youth science camps held at the SFU Burnaby campus this summer hosted some big names on a recent tour. Executives from the communications giant Rogers and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby North-Seymour, Terry Beech, visited the Science…
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