This is my second year teaching Civic Engagement and Leadership. This is a course for our Gr 12 students where they partner with a community or organization, make a needs assessment and create a project to address the needs identified. While this is very close to my degree, I remember shoving the invitation to teach it for years. I thought it required so much from the teacher and it is so taxing, unless maybe if I were in a college set-up. My students had started their projects last month and we just finished first round of updating and consultation. I could not help but feel very very proud of my students. I feel like this subject is demanding a lot from them. I was initially adamant at the beginning of the school year if connecting with organizations and offices were possible. I was anxious on how I could contact organizations and institutions at this time of the pandemic. But my students proved me wrong. For a rather short time last December, they stepped up in leadership, connect