Workshop Session #6
Saturday 12:00-12:45pm
#1 – Project Girl
Carol Morgan School
Room 37
How can we break the cycle of poverty and help empower girls in underprivileged areas?
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Essential Question:
How can we break the cycle of poverty and help empower girls in underprivileged areas?
Impact Statement:
Project Girl DR is a student-led initiative that aims to empower girls in Batey Lechería to break the cycle of poverty and start a sustainable movement towards change in their community. We provide opportunities through and advocating for education, so we may all rise together.
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#2 – Renewable Energy: Solar Tree & Bike n’ Blend
Carol Morgan School
Room 38
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Essential Question:
How can we reduce fossil fuels?
Impact Statement:
We have developed two eco-friendly solutions in our school to reduce fossil fuels, a solar tree where we can charge devices and a bike that blends smoothies. In the process we have learnt a lot about renewable energy and the impact of fossil fuels to our environment.
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#3 – Smiles of Hope
Colegio Americano de Torreon
Room 41
How can we give happiness and hope as well as provide education to children who have had a dramatic change in their lives due to health issues?
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Essential Question:
How can we give happiness and hope as well as provide education to children who have had a dramatic change in their lives due to health issues?
Impact Statement:
We have successfully served a children’s hospital in need by visiting the kids, raising funds, contacting platelet donors and encouraging the children to keep studying despite their condition. Our work has been accomplished by organizing these activities with hospital leaders and volunteers, with the purpose of accomplishing our goal of smiles of hope.
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#4 – Manzano a la Obra
American School of Santo Domingo
Room 42
How can the impact we make on a community be sustainable?
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Essential Questions:
How can the impact we make on a community be sustainable?
Impact Statement:
We have successfully served over 150 young people by February 2017 using motivational workshops, fun artistic and physical education activities, guest lecturers, and engaging classes and lectures to accomplish our goal of effectively organizing extended education for the youth of the community of Manzano.
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#5 – Eroi Per la Terra
Instituto Italiano Enrico Fermin
Room 43
How much could recycling in a school help to change our environment?
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Essential Question:
How much could recycling in a school help to change our environment?
Impact Statement:
We plan to start the recycling project on March 6th this year with high school, which includes 8 classrooms with twenty five students per class approximately. We look forward to get experience and after that to involve elementary school.In order to be able to recycle we’ll need trash cans for the first material: paper. We are planning to draw the student’s attention through visual aids such as cardboards in the halls with important and general information. To provide more information, speeches will be given to all classes. We will also have several meetings per trimester with the school’s administrative staffs to talk about the development of the project. We will annually include more students to our principal leader group and have two supporting coordinators in each class to make easier the supervision job. At the end of every week, a student per classroom is responsible to take out the trash and put them in the storage. We will keep the trash there until the transportation comes to move it to a recycling center. We will use these strategies to accomplish our goal of effectively creating a recycling culture in our school.
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#6 -Education Through Connection
Beacon Academy Team
Room 44
How do we make education accessible outside of a classroom to all people in the US, regardless of background?
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Essential Question:
How do we make education accessible outside of a classroom to all people in the US, regardless of background?
Impact Statement:
We plan to serve the Chicagoland refugee community, as well as generally underserved populations in the US, by using established connections with refugee networks to provide all forms of education through which we can assist them with their acclimation to the U.S. We plan to focus specifically on the language barrier, which is one of the biggest challenges one faces when in search of education. Through tutoring, as well as more natural ways of exchanging languages, we plan to expand upon the relationships that have already developed between Beacon Academy’s community and organizations such as the Syrian Community Network. By creating a strong relationship between our school’s community and multiple refugee and immigrant organizations, we can form a system of exchanging knowledge, language, ideas, and viewpoints, resulting in education for all involved.
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#7 – I’m 14 years old and I have a baby. Now what?
Balboa Academy Team
Room 46
How can we as young leaders help those who are struggling with teenage pregnancy and parenthood, to overcome the adversities they face in order to break the cycle of poverty?
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Essential Question:
How can we as young leaders help those who are struggling with teenage pregnancy and parenthood, to overcome the adversities they face in order to break the cycle of poverty?
Impact Statement:
According to the World Health Organization, one million girls under the age of 15 give birth every year. In Panama, 1 in every 5 pregnant women is a teenager and 95% of these women come from low-income backgrounds. Babies born to adolescent mothers face substantial higher risk of dying than those born to women between the ages 20-24. As young capable leaders it is our aspiration to make a change and alleviate this local global issue. We plan to successfully serve the Sta. Eufracia home of teenage mothers in Panama by providing them with the tools required to overcome this situation. Through tutoring in their school subjects and interactive workshops, they will learn that they’re not just a statistic, their child doesn’t have to be destined to a life of struggles, and that it is possible to break out of the cycle of poverty.
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#8 – The RISE Kids Initiative
Balboa Academy Team
Room 45
How has RISE Kids, although minimally, shaped education in Panama? / What tools would you need to establish a similar program to that of RISE Kids?
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Essential Question:
How has RISE Kids, although minimally, shaped education in Panama? / What tools would you need to establish a similar program to that of RISE Kids?
Impact Statement:
According to Enseña por Panama member of Teach for All – Panama education statistics are dismal. 50% of Panamanian 3rd graders enter the 3rd grade without knowing how to read Only 20% of kids that enroll into 1st grade will eventually graduate from high school. 1 in 20 student in poverty will finish college or university. Students in the indigenous communities only attend school for 4.4 years. Only 14.7% of 8th grade students are actually leveled in 8th grade math. More than 30% of student between the ages of 12 to 19 will have to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. We are RISE Kids, an non-profit student-led organization from Balboa Academy have been impacting these statistics for several years now. We have inspired girls to continue studying past the 6th grade in rural Panama, by awarding top students a small scholarship to pay for materials and transportation to high school. We continue to inspire 4th graders in extreme poverty to be all they can be, regardless of gender and of nay-sayers. We continue to lead 6th graders to appreciate a new language to break the cycle of poverty. We hope to inspire 9th graders that are forced to choose between education and work, to pick education and to continue as far as they can for a better job tomorrow.
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#9 – Operation Smile: Student programs supporting non-profit organizations
Balboa Academy Team
Room 51
What is the effect/impact that a student program such as Operation Smile can have on education and poverty?
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Essential Question:
What is the effect/impact that a student program such as Operation Smile can have on education and poverty?
Impact Statement:
Need to investigate DATA for the precise numbers.
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#10 – APROJUSAN
Balboa Academy Team
Room 52
What is APROJUSAN? And how do we help the children?
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Essential Question:
What is APROJUSAN? And how do we help the children?
Impact Statement:
APROJUSAN is a club in San Felipe, Panama were we help kids who grew up in really poor situations at home. We help those kids once a week to help them with their homework so they can develop more educational skills and get away from street gangs, drugs, and poverty.
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#11 – Maritime Safety and Pollution Prevention in Panama
Balboa Academy Team
Room 31
What is the current maritime pollution situation in Panama and how can we help solve it? How can we impact the maritime life in a positive way with a small act?
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Essential Question:
What is the current maritime pollution situation in Panama and how can we help solve it? How can we impact the maritime life in a positive way with a small act?
Impact Statement:
Use reusable water bottles to lower the production and usage of plastic. Avoid throwing used cooking oil down the drain.
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