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Civics & Community Building Challenges:

I challenge you to come up with a platform for connecting with your classmates or peers to identify, research and take action on racial inequity that you see in your school or community.

Catherine Wigginton-Greene

I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Aisha Alexander

I challenge you to organize young people in your community to practice civic power and cultivate civic character.

Eric Liu

I challenge you to design mobility solutions that increase community cohesion and promote equitable development of vulnerable populations in your communities.

Eric Wilson & Smita Rawoot

I challenge you, the students in Denver, CO, to create a way of inspiring your classmates, and students around the country, to learn about the Bill of Rights, its history, and the way that it relates to your lives. Inspire them to apply their knowledge of it to be active citizens by choosing a current debate involving the Bill Of Rights and making an argument about what liberty means to you today. Be creative in helping students learn about where the rights listed in the Bill of Rights came from and how they evolved over time.

Jeffrey Rosen

Civics & Community Building Solutions:

I challenge you to come up with a platform for connecting with your classmates or peers to identify, research and take action on racial inequity that you see in your school or community.

Catherine Wigginton-Greene

Denver South Eracism

Denver South Eracism is a youth driven movement dedicated to taking action against racial inequity throughout the community and challenging stereotypes, in order to create a more culturally aware and accepting environment.

B.O.L.T.S (Be One, Lead Together)

A Day With R.A.C.E (Respect All Cultures Equally) is an awareness campaign that addresses the racial inequities the 5 points area still faces through community key note speakers and student performances, as well as ways the community combats these issues through community partner displays and information.

C.O.L.O.R.

We, COLOR: Creatively Optimistic Leaders of Respect, are combatting the issues surrounding race; through the allocation of literature, music, and art we are facilitating tough conversations within workshops and forums, raising awareness in our community, and are creating a movement to fight back against the racial inequity in our society.

See Me As I Am

A social platform developed by young adults for young adults that creates a space for us to define ourselves, not one that defines us for others, in order to address issues related to race.

Freedom Blazers

To bring awareness of racism to our school and community by acknowledging the painful affects it has had on individuals and to empower our students and community in healing the negative affect of racism.

I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Aisha Alexander
https://youtu.be/cpiK_vxLVvI?list=PL7fuyfNu8jfOAlp2DHArW33t-FGSrsOaf

Safe City

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

https://youtu.be/dzjUHUOGe7c?list=PL7fuyfNu8jfOAlp2DHArW33t-FGSrsOaf

LocalFunDealers

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

https://youtu.be/ov7dN1yuau0?list=PL7fuyfNu8jfOAlp2DHArW33t-FGSrsOaf

TNT (Tech iNnovation Team)

Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

https://youtu.be/U7ZlzxGUgCc?list=PL7fuyfNu8jfOAlp2DHArW33t-FGSrsOaf

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Reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

I challenge you to organize young people in your community to practice civic power and cultivate civic character.

Eric Liu

Thomas Jefferson High School

Sunset Encouraging Civic Activism will inform students about their civic power, how they can contribute to society, provide accessible services, and teach young adults how to have a voice and appreciate diversity.

Sunset High School

Sunset Encouraging Civic Activism will inform students about their civic power, how they can contribute to society, provide accessible services, and teach young adults how to have a voice and appreciate diversity.

Seagoville High School

Dragons United is promoting community involvement at Seagoville High School to help remedy the issue of bullying.

Justin F. Kimball High School

Knights M Powering is a force of change that empowers students to advocate for their own education while promoting student accountability to retain good teachers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt High School

Civic Youth United aims to inform, develop, and empower the next generation of functional citizens by providing post-secondary skills not in current curricula.

I challenge you to design mobility solutions that increase community cohesion and promote equitable development of vulnerable populations in your communities.

Eric Wilson & Smita Rawoot

Mobility 4 All

M4A promotes community cohesion and equitable development by improving access to safe mobility across all types of transit. We will identify common themes and issues throughout the southern sector and propose solutions to private-sector companies whose interests align with the mission of M4A.

Stray Paws

In order to make streets safer for pedestrians, especially school-aged pedestrians, Stray Paws is committed to decreasing the number of stray dogs in the area by increasing patrols and raising awareness of the 311 phone app and free spay and neutering services.

I challenge you, the students in Denver, CO, to create a way of inspiring your classmates, and students around the country, to learn about the Bill of Rights, its history, and the way that it relates to your lives. Inspire them to apply their knowledge of it to be active citizens by choosing a current debate involving the Bill Of Rights and making an argument about what liberty means to you today. Be creative in helping students learn about where the rights listed in the Bill of Rights came from and how they evolved over time.

Jeffrey Rosen