- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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10 people are interested
World Savvy Minnesota Festival Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: World Savvy
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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10 people are interested
Part pep rally, part global summit, the World Savvy Festival is an annual gathering during which middle and high school students present their ideas for changing the world, and teachers, parents, community members and elected officials from across the Twin Cities provide their support. The day-long event is designed so students leave with an increased confidence in their own ability to affect change, improved global competence, and skills to support their growth as global citizens.
During the Festival, students showcase their work exploring solutions to community and global issues. The Festival includes:
- Students presenting their ideas for addressing issues they’ve chosen - such as hunger, homelessness, human trafficking, racial discrimination, or habitat preservation - and receiving feedback
- A design challenge, during which students from different schools come together for a workshop with their peers about strategies to address a global issue
- An opening ceremony to welcome students and a closing ceremony to celebrate high-scoring projects
On Festival day, we’re looking for volunteers to help
- Serve as a greeter, welcoming students, teachers, judges, and other participants and guiding them around campus
- Serve as judges, meeting with groups of students to listen to them present their projects and offer feedback using a rubric
- With logistics, including setting up and serving lunch
More opportunities with World Savvy
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About World Savvy
Location:
600 California St., 11th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108, US
Mission Statement
World Savvy educates and engages youth to learn, work, and thrive as responsible global citizens in the 21st century.
Description
World Savvy prepares the next generation of leaders to learn, work and thrive as responsible global citizens in the 21st century. We support systemic change in K-12 education to provide every student in every classroom with the content knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to be leaders and changemakers in their diverse communities, locally and globally.
World Savvy was founded in San Francisco by Dana Mortenson and Madiha Murshed in response to a critical need for youth to acquire global knowledge and 21st century skills within the conspicuous absence of global education programs in K-12 education in the United States. Since that time, we have grown from serving 90 students and 20 teachers in our first year, to reaching more than 250,000 youth and 2000 teachers since we began from three offices nationally: San Francisco, Minneapolis-St.Paul and New York.
This growing need for true global competency in our increasingly diverse and interconnected local & global communities has helped to propel World Savvy into a national leader in global education. Our dynamic programs and services help youth in middle and high school learn howto think rather than what to think about critical global and community issues, which are often complex and unaddressed in school, and have enormous implications for their local community.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
University of St ThomasSt Paul, MN 55105
DATE POSTED
March 16, 2017
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- STEM
- Teaching / Instruction
- English as a Secondary Language (ESL)
- General Education
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 9 am - 3 pm on the day of the Festival