| All through the calendar year, various activities are held at Provo Canyon School. The activities promote teamwork, social interaction and cooperation among students. Let us look at a few of them:
- The boy's campus has many activities connected to the library. One form of motivation is through contests and competitions. The library mascot-naming contest is an event held every year. Students are asked to submit an appropriate name for the mascot and the winner is awarded with a pizza party along with their entire unit.
- A novel way of encouraging students to complete their homework as soon as possible is the " off the homework list contests " that are regularly held. Students of a particular class are told in advance that the library will specially treat those who complete their homework before the deadline.
- The work that students do at art classes is displayed in the school library. From drawings, sketches and paintings, sculptures are also put up for display. At art class, students are instilled with the motto that nothing is impossible. They are not allowed to be discouraged and to keep attempting to improve themselves.
- The Academic Department arranges an Olympic day every year. This is just another name for a day full of sports activities. Students from the Orem and Provo campus compete in various athletic events for emerging victorious. Barbecues and snow cones are major attractions of the day.
Apart from individual events, team events like tug-of-war and relay races are also held. All those who participate are winners, for they try their best to excel. As the man behind the revival of the modern Olympics has said about sports, "The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
- Every December, before Christmas Eve, the boys of Provo Canyon School take part in the Native American Christmas time service project . One of the school managers Ron Albert has proposed and began the project in 2003. It has been annually held since then.
The students and other volunteers collect and classify and finally gift-wrap presents for tribes located in the western states of Shoshone, Arapahoe, Piute, Hopi and Pueblos. These gifts are then loaded into trucks for distribution among the tribes.
- The girl's campus at Orem spreads the message to fight against drug addiction during the Red Ribbon Week from October 23 to October 31. The week is in memory of Enrique Camerena, a US Drug Enforcement Administration member, who was killed when following a drug trafficking trail.
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