A. Y. Jackson Secondary School is a community high school in the Glen Cairn neighbourhood of Kanata, a suburb in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and was first opened in 1976. The school was named after A. Y. Jackson, the famous Canadian painter, and one of the founders of the Group of Seven. AYJ had approximately 700 students attending its program in 2020–2021. The majority of students come from W.O. Mitchell Elementary School, Glen Cairn Public School, and Katimavik Elementary School, its four associate schools. International Programme In 2006, AYJ became the first school internationally to be recognized as a Global Learning Centre by the International School Connection. This designation is a reflection of the emphasis placed on international learning and global citizenship. The school runs two major international exchanges each year with partner schools in Zaragoza, Spain and Suzhou, China. As well, each year there are trips to destinations in the United States as well as other international trips such as a tour of the Canadian battlefields of Europe, a trip to Thailand and concert band tours of Italy and Austria. The school has hosted a Beyond Our Walls Conference where students from across Ottawa came to learn about opportunities to volunteer in their communities and around the world. This conference has since been stopped. AYJ formed a major partnership with the Lwak Girls' High School in the Rarieda area of Kenya, to provide fundraising for the Kenyan school as well as creating collaborations between the students in both countries. In 2009, AYJ hosted a Run for Kenya fundraising run. Several elite Kenyan long-distance runners visited AYJ to show their support. Science and technology AYJ had an in-house closed-circuit television station known as JTV, that produces a daily news and information program, replacing the traditional audio announcements via the Public Address system. As of 2015, this has been replaced via a YouTube channel. It began being offered as a technology credit course in 2004 and the station earned several students the 2005 OCRI High School IT Entrepreneur of The Year Award. AYJ was the first school in Ottawa to participate in the Engineers in Schools program allowing students to talk with local engineers. Arts Drama On the evening of Oct. 20, 2009, AYJ drama teacher Illona Henkelman and the cast of A Few Good Men were received awards