Shelby Voz, a soon-to-be Grade 12 student at Lake Lenore School got to experience Canada's 150th birthday in a big way.

Voz was one of 150 youth selected to take part in Canada 150&Me - an eight day experiential learning trip in Ottawa.

She says they got to work right away when they arrived, making a presentation infront of Governor General David Johnston.

"My group did Canada in the World. We explained different issues such as mental health, environmental challenges, diversity problems, and just kind of generalized everyone else's topics."

Voz says Johnston then spoke about the presentations afterwards and also met with the group later in the week.

Topics surrounded National Youth Forums held earlier in the year, which Voz also took part in. She made a trip to Vancouver to learn more about the environment.

Her initial submission to be selected to take part in a forum was on mental health.

Meeting other people from across the country and hearing about their stories and local issues was something Voz took away.

"It's really eye-opening because you know what goes around in your area, but then you get all these kids across Canada and see what they are dealing with and their struggles they are seeing," she explained. "It really makes you think and want to help them, because everything is better when we work together."

A major highlight of the trip was Canada Day and the Canada 150 celebrations in the nation's capital.

Voz says they had a role in the Prime Minister's appearance on stage.

"We performed with Marie Mai, to one of her songs and we did the intro to Justin Trudeau's entrance, which was pretty cool."

Voz beat out 3,000 other entrants to be one of the 150 to take part in the Ottawa trip.