So really after Shad was when my events got mature and when I started doing proper, bigger events.” Originally, I wanted to focus on teaching children,” he said. “But also they told me that I should expand my views. They recommended he recruit and train volunteers from the community. While he didn’t work on his non-profit when he attended Shad, he did get some valuable advice from mentors there who have also run organizations. He achieved the Gold level of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award in 2021. Richmond Hill gave him its Youth Artist Award in 2020. He was awarded the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers and the COVID-19 Humanitarian Service Medal in 2022. Jackie created an Origami Canada YouTube channel as a learning resource to reach more people when he felt they needed it most.įor his artistry and leadership with Origami Canada, and his support of community through inspiring workshops, Jackie has received multiple honours. Workshops went online at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants join from all over Canada and the United States, and from as far away as Ireland and India. He invented his own rose design, which is more complex. They might include models such as rabbits, cranes, jumping frogs, and maples leaves. In each hour-long session, they complete between two and three projects. He inspired me to start my own organization.”īy Jackie’s estimation, about 50,000 people have attended his virtual and in-person origami workshops over the years. I saw his booth at one, and when I asked if I could be a part of his team, he said yes. I remember he would bring meteorites and fossils around to community centres. It’s like community outreach for science. “My friend Aiden Aird has an organization called STEM Kids Rock. Years before he attended Shad at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2019, it was a conversation Jackie had with a Shad alum that inspired him to turn his pastime into a passion project. The all-volunteer, non-profit organization unites experienced origami enthusiasts and delivers free instruction in the community. Fewer than 10 years later, Jackie founded Origami Canada. It was on a Japanese children’s show on TV. Jackie recalls he was about five years old and living in China the first time he saw someone demonstrating origami.
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