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Jonathan Nyquist is the Company Founder and current Operations Director of NYQUEST Training and Placement. Jonathan grew up attending camps in Canada and the U.S. |
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He worked as a head staff for several years at Camp White Pine in Haliburton, Ontario and he was the Assistant Director of Trails Youth Initiatives, a Canadian year-round outdoor education school for young potential leaders from the inner city of Toronto.
Jonathan worked as the Boys Head Counsellor at Skylake Yosemite Camp in California and received the Male Staff Member of the Year Award during this work experience.
He spent two years traveling throughout the United States, Canada and Australia working as an outdoor educator, camp counsellor, wilderness trips leader, nature based educator and summer camp administrator.
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Jonathan graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of Michigan and he completed a Master’s Degree in Recreation Administration and Outdoor Education from California State University, Chico. Jonathan also received the 2006 Toronto Entrepreneur Award for his business start-up with NYQUEST.
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Sarah Dyment joins NYQUEST with a zest for the outdoors and camping. She enjoys going on trips to such places as Banff, Algonquin Provincial Park, Muskoka, Lake Louise and Jasper.
After graduating from George Brown College, studying Special Event Planning – Destination Tourism, Sarah took part in initiating an environmental plan for “Contiki Tours.” She transformed one of their tours into an environmentally friendly trip – ensuring the charter buses run on bio-diesel fuelling; staying at appropriate hotels that have green policies in place as well as other initiatives that can help improve the state of the environment.
Sarah helped Peter Dyment start up an eco-tourism business on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Sea to Trees Adventures
. Her time on Canada’s “Galapagos Islands,” was an experience unlike any other; seeing a variety of endemic species and taking part in many outdoor excursions into one of the purest eco-systems.
Sarah is very excited to be sharing her energy and positivity at NYQUEST.
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Adam Diamond has a passion for camping and international travel. Since he was a young child, Adam has attended camps throughout the United States and Canada and went to Camp White Pine in Ontario, Canada as a camper and staff for over 10 summers.
Adam studied abroad in London, England and has backpacked different areas of the continent. He also spent a significant amount of time travelling South America and has ventured off to The Middle East as well.
Adam graduated Cum Laude from The Ohio State University with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. Before joining NYQUEST, he lived in Los Angeles and worked at an Organizational/Business Psychology firm.
He currently lives in Toronto and has plans to continue travelling in the future.
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Camilla Chaplin joins NYQUEST with a keen interest in camping, travelling and outdoor education. Originally from the UK (therefore denied the experience of being a camper!), Camilla has spent the last four years working at various summer camps with Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania in the USA, working her way up to the position of Program Director.
Camilla has travelled extensively in the USA and Europe, and spent a year working and travelling in Australia and New Zealand, as well as backpacking in Thailand. She studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester, UK, with a focus on global justice and climate change. Camilla has both participated in and worked for international work and cultural exchange programs, one of which landed her in Toronto, where she currently lives.
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- We believe that high quality effective staff are the most important asset of a successful camp or outdoor/experiential education organization
- We believe that successful travel, training and work experiences in the field of outdoor/experiential education will have the following positive impacts on an individual:
- They will learn how to work in a team and develop valuable teaching, communication and leadership skills that they will use in other employment, parenting or relationship building experiences in the future
- They will learn how to develop healthy communities by teaching children how to interact respectively, care for one another compassionately and solve problems and accomplish goals as a team
- They will benefit from exchanging cultures with others
- They will become refreshed by spending time in nature
- They will benefit from time spent working on public service initiatives and living a physically active life
- They will learn how to test their own limits, how to make challenging decisions and how to communicate to small and large groups of people
- They will develop a stronger sense of self-confidence and self-esteem
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- Recruit ambitious and disciplined young adults (18-30) who are talented leaders and are interested in traveling and working at camps and outdoor and experiential education organizations as:
•Counsellors
•Wilderness trip leaders
•Teachers
•Facilitators
•Support Staff
- Provide training, work placement assistance and on-going support so participants can successfully travel internationally, work seasonally or year-round and deliver high quality, safe experiences for clients participating in outdoor education programs
- Services will be geared towards attracting quality leaders to the camping industry and staffing professional outdoor and experiential education programs with mature, competent educators.
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