Blue Ribbon Leadership Conference

Ghandi

Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King

Steve Jobs

Malala

Yousafzai

Bart Teal

HOWL

Julia Bluhm

YOU !

Blue Ribbon Schools Of Excellence

Student Leadership Institute

YOU can make a difference!

What will you do? How can YOU affect a positive change in YOUR environment?

Your Assignment:

As you move around the park - look for people making a positive change in their environment. Make a note of anything you see and be prepared to talk about it to others during tomorrow's session.

Extra Credit!

Try to have a positive effect in someone else's day while they're at the park. Be prepared to report on your results!

Julia Bluhm, a 14 year old, decided to petition Seventeen Magazine to STOP changing images using Photoshop.

Win! After over 84,000 people signed Julia's petition and she and her fellow SPARK Summit activists hand-delivered the petitions to the executive editor of Seventeen, the magazine has made a commitment to not alter the body size or face shape of the girls and models in the magazine and to feature a diverse range of beauty in its pages.

Helping Others While Learning

We've done service learning projects that help our school, community, and the world. We happen to think that it's the best program of its kind! Each student works together with other HOWL students to produce interdisciplinary curriculum that improves classroom instruction or the school environment. For example, our students produced time lines, PowerPoints, lessons, videos, etc. requested by teachers for use in their classrooms. Also, we've engaged in community service projects and TV Productions that are shown to the community.

"If you don't do it, it DOESN'T get done"

Mr. Phillips

Students from both PCIS and PSMS have worked together to raise over $13,300 for the Heifer Project. The HOWL Students taught lessons, gave advice, and provided templates to classroom teachers to help facilitate their classroom fundraisers. Examples included Read-a-Thons, Chores For Change, auctions, raffles, and bake sales.

Beatrice meets with the HOWL students to thank them for their hard work for the Heifer Project.

BOLT

Technology Entertainment Design

Derek Sivers Leadership

"How do you change the world?"

Building Our Leaders of Tomorrow

"Simple… bring the young minds of our future leaders together to communicate, teach, learn, and create understanding."

"Together we will support a team that will have the passion and capacity to develop great leaders and foster peace throughout the world."

Malālah Yūsafzay, born July 12, 1997 is a school student and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan. She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban has at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls.The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai began to rise in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television and taking a position as chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat. She has since been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu and has won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize.

.

Steve Jobs - Co-Founder of Apple

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. -- Walt Disney

If you can dream it, you can do it. -- Walt Disney

Inspired by Ghandi's success with non-violent activism, King helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place on August 28, 1963. It was at this event that King gave his electrifying “I Have A Dream” speech.

More than a quarter million people of diverse ethnicities attended the event, at the time, it was the largest gathering of protesters in Washington’s history.

King’s speech electrified the crowd. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory.

King on the cover of Time magazine

on February 18, 1957.

Fragment from the

"I Have A Dream" speech

Nelson Mandela was the most significant black leader who stood against racism and apartheid in South Africa, while many in the world were silent. He dreamt of a democratic and free society in which people live together in harmony with equal opportunities. His words, ''the struggle is my life'', give a glimpse of the determination he fought with against apartheid and racism in South Africa

Mandela succeeded in bringing quality and justice to his people for which he was awarded the honorary Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Mahatma Ghandi

Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

(1869 – 1948)

was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. Pioneering the use of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience to achieve political and social progress based upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence for which he is internationally renowned.

“My life is my message.”