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New Heights Learning Services

New Heights Learning Services

McKnight Blvd. and 12th Ave. NE Calgary, AB,

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This is a private playspace without public access. Preschool and School for children with autism, an extremely worthy cause! I am nominating my sons school, New Heights. They are a special school for children with autism. The school was started by several parents who could not find suitable educational options for their autistic children. They have only been open about 6 years but for the first three they operated without any government funding, and while they have funding now the school has not been able to afford luxuries such as this. A playground such as this would benefit these children in unimaginable ways! Autistic children don't automatically learn from the world around them as a typical child would. They need to be taught and encouraged using tools and strategies but in order for this to work the child needs to be motivated to learn, not always easy for these kids who are bombarded with stimuli that they can't ignore every second of the day. Being able to encourage these kids to use and build their playskills and imaginative abilities would help to improve the quality of life for 40 autistic students!

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sottovoce over 2 years ago

What a wonderful project....so nice.

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Bruce156 over 2 years ago

Hope you get the playground

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kej over 2 years ago

It would be great to see an improvement for the children!

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ajblack over 2 years ago

We're in 9th! Woohoo!

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traceypollock over 2 years ago

Everyone is doing so awesome on this contest...this community is showing true spirit for some wonderful children! Only a few days to go, so let's drive the point home!!! We want this, because our kiddos deserve nothing less than the best...they are amazing human beings and we should be doing something amazing (like doing everything we can to win this competition) for them. This is for their future...keep it coming all!

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sjstokowski over 2 years ago

hope this works...

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natoma over 2 years ago

We've jumped another two spots just today! Someone mentioned that "not all play area's can accomodate the structure" but we are a completely blank slate, and as you can see our parents will make whatever is needed happen! Please give these kids a shot! I really hope the judges, and contest organizers will see what this would do for the kids and how much of a difference it would make in their lives.

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bassetthound666 over 2 years ago

The creativity and cutting edge architecture would work extra well, in an area with absolutely nothing to get in its way

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LaylaV over 2 years ago

This is the little school that could! Great work everyone. When the community comes together like this, great things can happen. I can't wait to see the results

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natoma over 2 years ago

That's part of what is so great about this school, a good portion of the parents really care and help out wherever they can!

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AngieB over 2 years ago

New Heights is an awesome school with awesome kids who attend there, let's give them something really exciting like a brand new playground!!

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PeLew over 2 years ago

Great job everyone! I can't think of a more worthy school than New Heights....it seems this contest was created for a school like this. A small, new school, with limited resources, but plenty of need. I wish you the best of luck...the results would be incredible if you could win!

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