DISCOVER YOUR VOICE. SHAPE YOUR WORLD.
Our Program
The program is built around Youth-initiated Civics project Challenges, that connect groups around the country into a network of builders and framers. It is an after-school program modelled on First Robotics Leagues, with individual groups working on self-defined challenges. We provide a platform for collaboration among teams, creating a national network of young people ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow.
Spanning across the academic year, the program is divided into modules, each dedicated to different aspects of the project-based learning approach, in 4 broad groups:​
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Project-based work: Grass- roots project work, specific to each location. The design of – and impacting tangible effects – of change-making efforts.
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Team Building and Skills Building exercised modelled on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology. [or, if we can’t say that, “using LEGO and similar tools to draw out common values, identities, and understanding of goals and objectives.
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Strategic Thinking Tools: thinking tools to inform judgment and decision-making.​
These tools illustrate different ways of looking at and approaching a problem, whether through data, narrative, cognition, cause/effect, etc. Each offers its own interpretation of an issue and outlook for solutions. -
Counterfactuals and constraints: Civic Literacy, presenting legal structures as the adjudication of issues, Lessons from History as real-world examples and models for change, and Speakers currently engaged in like work.
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Collaborative Network and National Competition: a comprehensive analysis in dialogue with peer groups exploring like interests.
Speakers – current efforts that address like challenges in effective ways. Experts in various fields, exhibiting the lenses used by real-world actors.
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Civic Literacy, presenting Constitutional articles and amendments, and local and state statutes, as the adjudication of issues, with intended and unintended consequences.
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Grass-roots project work, specific to each location.
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Historical lessons as to how and why changes happen – where available, tied to museum field trips.
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Speakers – current efforts that address like challenges in effective ways.
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Analysis: a comprehensive analysis of your chosen issue, in dialogue with peer groups exploring like interests.
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Rhetoric: define, articulate and present an approach, to be assessed with per presentations and professional/political reviewers.
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