The idea of education is not to turn us into your kind of adults. But into better adults than you have been.
– Adora Svitak

YOUTH LEADERSHIP

AT SCHOOL

STUDENT CLUBS

in North America are busy every day, organizing activities as club, during recess, on week-ends, at school fests & contribute in class. Here’s what that feels like.

FULL STORY

MEGHANA

met children in Indian villages that lacked hands, and there was no way their families could afford prothesis, especially since kids need new ones every couple of years.

Meghana realized that she could create prosthetic limbs on a simple 3D-printer for just $25 a piece. She calls on schools to enrich their fablabs / STEM education with meaning, development and a real impact on lives.

ANA

and her life science class crew ran a watershed restoration program for one year. Upon completion, they decided to teach other classes to scale up the program.

The 13 year olds created a curriculum, from research to field trip, and have since trained hundreds of students at several schools. It has changed their worldview and activated them as stewards of their Local Commons.

What if our entire young generation at school grows up like this?

Know an awesome student club? Let us know what they do.

FORM

WHY DOES
SCHOOL MATTER?

First, it’s all young people’s daily hangout.

Second, it’s a unique place and time.

YOUTH AT SCHOOL

have SUPERPOWERS

pure changemaker spirit

sense of adventure

daily community of 100’s

free space and resources

free support and mentoring

good status in public

good status with media

good status with funders

win win benefits

AND

TIME

2-8 hours per day

20+ on week-ends

like gamers, artists, athletes

for 10+ years

Here’s what that looks like.

We call this

High Impact

Student Clubs

… acting like ATHLETES
not fans or amateurs.

in perfect alignment with the purpose of schooling, as defined by education laws

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The purpose of schooling is to enable students to become able, active citizens of a continuously evolving libertarian democratic society, which today also has to be sustainable, in harmony with nature and a harmoniously collaborating global family of nations.

View your state’s education laws online
and make sure schools begin to fulfill their purpose.