Latest news with #JaneRobertson
CBC
08-05-2025
- General
- CBC
T-A-L-E-N-T-E-D students from Prince Edward Island are off to National Spelling Bee Competition
P.E.I. Spelling Bee is a movement to get more kids involved in reading, spelling and public speaking. Now these three competitors are headed to the National Spelling Bee Competition. CBC's Jane Robertson prepared this story.
CBC
05-05-2025
- CBC
P.E.I. students share what they learned during Red Dress Day ceremony
Students at École Saint-Augustin hosted a ceremony for the community to mark the national day of awareness and remembrance for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people. CBC's Jane Robertson was there to capture the sights and sounds.
Otago Daily Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Plays sure to raise a laugh
Caitlin Rivers, left, and Jane Robertson preparing to appear in next week's Pint-Sized Plays. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER A short attention span is all you need for some of the best theatrical entertainment you'll see. Playwriting comp Pint-Sized Plays — plays lasting 10 to 15 minutes max — returns to Queenstown next week with shows on Thursday and Friday at Frankton's The Matrix Lounge, from 7pm, followed by two shows in Bannockburn the following day. Organised by Queenstown's Remarkable Theatre, it attracts plays from around the world. Each also has to have no more than three actors, and minimal props. Local actors will perform five of the plays, with the other three featuring Cromwell talent. Once again, comedy's very prevalent — seven of the plays are comedies, with two of them dark comedies. "Everyone likes a good laugh," production manager Sophie Kennedy says. Two are intriguingly entitled 200 Below Zero and Happy Husband Hunting. Each show's winning play is decidedby audience vote with votesaggregated to find the overall winner. Tickets $30 plus booking fees from Humanitix.
CBC
19-04-2025
- Science
- CBC
UPEI students design weather and water monitoring buoy for class project
Students at UPEI's Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering have held a design expo to showcase projects they have been working on for the entire school year. CBC's Jane Robertson stopped by recently to check out one project named Sabrina, that resulted in a buoy to be used in the oyster industry to monitor water and weather conditions.
