CIVIX believes that the best way to support students in developing citizenship skills is for them to experience their democracy first-hand. By reaching students throughout their school career, during and between election periods, we hope to prepare them to be active citizens before they reach official voting age.

Student Vote, the flagship program of CIVIX, is an experiential civic literacy program that provides students under the voting age with the opportunity to learn about democracy, government and the electoral process, and cast ballots for the official candidates in a parallel election.

We also offer civic education programming between elections, including government budget consultations for youth where students learn about public finance and discuss public policy issues (Student Budget Consultation), meetings between students and their elected representatives to help them better understand and appreciate our democratic institutions (Rep Day), and a digital literacy program to help students evaluate sources and claims (CTRL-F).

The Student Vote program for the 2023 Manitoba provincial election was supported by the Government of Canada and several private foundations.