Essential Question: Are there systemic barriers to success to certain marginalized populations?

United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #10 Reduced Inequalities

Spend some time in someone else’s shoes by playing the board game (created by Point Made Learning) that explores how bias, stereotypes, discrimination, and systemic inequity can block one’s path toward achieving the “American Dream.”

It is our hope that this experience will endure and students will be able to call upon it when thinking of people who are not like them.

Essential Question: How can we reduce the number of people that experience food insecurity in our community?

United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #2 Zero Hunger

In this hands-on session, participants will work with a professional ceramics teacher and craft bowls for a social cause. They will be used for the next in-person “Soup Bowls for Hunger” event.

What must be in place for Peace to prosper?

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Participants will investigate the history of a dozen or more symbols that have been recognized as symbols of Peace. They will then choose one of the symbols and work to decorate a wooden laser-cut version of it to take away with them after the workshop.

Participants will enjoy working with their minds and their hands and have a symbol to take with them.

Essential Question: Why do we cry?

United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #3 Good Health and Well-Being

The act of crying can make us uncomfortable whether we are doing or seeing it.  Crying is complicated. What does it mean in the context of certain societies, ages, genders?   Are you aware of the mechanics and health benefits of crying?   In this Capstone presentation, you will learn more about many of the aspects of crying. 

With the onset of COVID-19 Asian Americans have experienced an increase in stigmatization.  However, this is not new. Join this session to understand how the prejudices are rooted in the history of Asian Americans, how they prevail today, and how we can all interrupt this negative legacy.

Participants will be treated to a brief history of how Asian Americans have collectively navigated their lives in the United States and will hear some first-person accounts from the student presenter who has evolved in her understanding of her own identity as a person of Asian descent.

In this real-time, interactive simulation, participants will have the chance to control a country politically, economically, and socially to turn their country into a world power. Students must make decisions under pressure that will affect their country’s future including war, economic depressions, natural disasters, and more. 

Essential Question: How are books made?

United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #4 Quality Education

Making your own books is a fun and useful skill that allows you to turn anything you want into a book!  Hand-made books are a great way to create a personal journal, a sketchbook for art, creative writing, or to use however you like!  The possibilities are endless and they are great gifts too.  Join us in the library where we will work together on a book-making style called: Japanese 4-Hole Bookbinding.
Once you learn the basics, you will discover how easy it is to make books on your own from a variety of materials.  

Each attendee will receive a prepared kit for the guided assembly process during the session plus materials and instructions to create one at home. No experience is necessary.

Essential Question:  What are some of the Human Rights that should be extended to all people by virtue of being human?

United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #4, #5, #8, #10, #11, #16

This session will present the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a guiding document for the work of the United Nations. 
The accompanying exhibit of 62 quilted wallhangings tells the stories of Human Rights in Fabric. Participants will be invited to do a gallery walk. Each small quilt has an audio component– that you can access by dialing a number on your phone–to hear the individual artist speak about the piece. (Please do not touch the artwork. ) 

Essential Question: How can we use theater to affect change?

United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #10 Reduced Inequalities

Can we truly compost and/or recycle our waste?

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): #12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Allen Street Campus students will summarize their plans and detail their success at reducing their waste trhough composting and recyling. They will talk about challenges and vistories and inspire others to do the same. 

Allen Street Campus will serve as a resource for other campuses trying to do this work.