Award Nominations

Would you like ACT to honour one of your students or teachers with an award? Nominating is quick and easy, and ACT Awards give recognition to students and teachers for their contributions, commitment, and innovations. They also look great on résumés! 

Rescue Award

Presented to students and teachers who have used any of the skills learned in the CPR program. For example:

Recognizing signs of a heart attack or stroke; calling 911; administering CPR; performing the obstructed airway manoeuvre; using an AED; helping at the scene of an emergency. Regardless of the outcome, we still like to honour students and teachers for reacting in an emergency.

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Leadership ACTion Award

Presented to students who demonstrate leadership in the CPR program. For example:

Helping to teach CPR in the classroom; participating on a school emergency response team; teaching CPR to family and friends; promoting the importance of CPR and AED training.

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Hands of ACTion Award

Presented to students who provide general classroom help to teachers. For example:

Cleaning mannequins and/or helping with classroom set up/take down.

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Rescue Stories

Youth and teachers who have been trained through the ACT High School CPR and AED Program are stepping forward and using their lifesaving skills in a wide range of emergencies involving family, friends, and strangers. Many lives are being saved.

Countless Lives Saved

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Best friends step up to save woman with CPR 

Tyler and Levi were trained in the ACT High School CPR and AED Program and knew what to do

Basketball coach saves student with CPR and an AED

A Grade 10 student is alive today thanks to the quick provision of CPR and the use of an AED by his basketball coach Mike Rowley, of St. Mother Teresa High School.

Teacher saves a stranger with CPR

An ironic chain of events led to an unusual rescue story for Marcia, a high school teacher in Kingston.

See all rescue stories