Unity Day
Students at North Port High School will host a Unity Day at their school with workshops and presentations that will explore issues of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. There is also leadership development training for students.

Discrimination Project
Cedarville High School students requested funds to assist in researching and preparing an analysis of discrimination and its impact on America. The students will read books and present to the entire school the problems with discrimination, its impact and ways to stop and prevent discriminatory practices.

Youth Speak
A youth community center requested funds for a public debate titled "youth Speak." The debate would focus on derogatory terms youth use and how it impacts themselves and those around them. The students will focus on the power of words.

T.A.C. Tolerance for All Cultures
A youth outreach organization requested funds to host a series of workshops to increase awareness of hate crimes. The workshops will also focus on racial, ethnic and cultural differences.

Appalachian Student Outreach
The Appalachian Student Outreach is a project designed to increase awareness of Appalachian students as well as increase interaction among Appalachian and non-Appalachian students.

Behind Bullies
Requested funds for a film on bullying. The project will address the affects of bullying on other kids and will also profile students who are bullies. The focus will address social boundaries that divide bullies and their victims.

No More Walls: Schools Mix It Up
Strafford School wants to address social barriers by inviting students from a more ethnically diverse school to a predominantly white school. The schools will conduct activities to address stereotypes, prejudices and socio-economic differences.

Peace Week
A student-led organization at Northridge High School requested funds to host peace week at their school. The week will feature workshops and presentations addressing racial, economic, cultural and social boundaries. The project will involve 10 student leaders and impact more than 400 students.

Around the World in 80 Minutes
Happy Valley Elementary School requested funds for a cultural awareness day. The students will show appreciation of the different cultures represented in their schools. The project will impact an estimated 250 students.

Crossing Boundaries
Nova Middle School requested funds for their Crossing Boundaries day. Students will engage in several activities to address boundaries in schools and at the end of the day they will take part in a mural hanging in the school that represents unity among the teachers and students. The project will impact and involve an estimated 1,200 students.

Mayor's Youth Forum
The Mayor's Youth Council, a student group, requested funds to hold breakout sessions on resolving conflict, promoting respect and tolerance. The group will bring together students from different backgrounds to address these issues as they relate to youth.

As We See It
Inspired by the video, "Surviving High School," Lincoln Academy students requested funds for a one-day retreat, where 60 students and 10 teachers would spend the day addressing labeling, learning differences, bullying, sexual harassment and race relations.

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition Youth Summit
GenderPac requested funds to host their second annual Gender Youth Leadership Summit for over 150 students.

Documenting Change
Students at AC Reynolds High School requested funds for a student led documentary. The documentary will address how students cross social boundaries and the impact it has on their decisions in selecting schools and activities they participate in.

Best Buddies Program
Yerba Buena High School requested funds to expand the Best Buddies program they began implementing the previous year. The project will focus on students with special education needs and mainstream students.

Cultural Connections Festival
STAND (Students Together for Awareness N Diversity) at Hillsborough Middle School requested funds to host a cultural connections festival to provide students with an opportunity to learn about other cultures within the school to increase awareness and appreciation for diversity and to promote tolerance.

Buddies with Character
Four Peaks Elementary School requested funds to conduct leadership and character development training for 4th and 5th grade students. The students who complete the leadership training will implement activities and programs that focus on conflict resolution, tolerance, cultural diversity and character building.

Native Collaboration Chokers
Lewis and Clark Middle School requested funds to help improve relationships among Native American students and non-Native American students through a creative arts project.

One Love: Working toward Understanding
The Asset Team, a student-led group at Bellevue Junior High School, will implement monthly projects to educate the student body on issues related to bullying, name calling, harassment, learning to appreciate and respect others, and addressing social boundaries identified within the school.

Welcoming Diversity Workshop
Twelve high schools in Allegheny County will come together for a diversity workshop. The aim of the workshop will focus on efforts to reduce racial prejudice, promote community change and increase understanding among youth. There will be 25 mentors with 240 students impacted at the workshop.

Peer Mediation Symposium
A student-led Peer Mediation group will host its fifth annual symposium. The symposium will address school conflict and violence and ways to address social boundaries.

Journey Through Tolerance
A group of 5th grade students at Stewart School created a play on bullying after a series of lessons on tolerance were taught at their school. The play was written by students and will be performed for the entire student body. ** The teacher and students from this project were featured in a local newspaper. Here' s the link.

Kindness Club
H & M Potter School requested funds to implement various school-wide activities to promote kindness in response to bullying in the school. The goal of each monthly project will be to encourage acceptance, recognize differences and promote kindness.

Mix It Up All Year
A student-led group at Har-Ber High School has extended its Mix It Up at Lunch Day throughout the year. The group will conduct small skits, radio broadcast, Public Service Announcements, develop a poster campaign and work with NCCJ to continue addressing social boundaries in their school.

Building a Friendship Rainbow: Getting to Know Roy G. Biv
An elementary school will participate in a series of activities that will address the issue of students transitioning from three culturally distinct elementary schools to an area high school. The activities will address stereotypes and encourage students to break through boundaries.

Friends Night
Yukon High School Transition Center requested funds for a project to address the need for safe and supportive social activities for special education students with severe disabilities and multiple handicaps. Student leaders from the high school will participate in activities throughout the year titled "Friends Night."

Diversity
Avoca Central School requested funds to bring Camfel Productions to present on diversity. The production will specifically address social boundaries, negative peer pressure and bullying in an elementary and middle school.

Journey to a Hate Free Millennium
The ARCh youth team was inspired by the film, "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium," and will perform a reenactment for the student body.

Peace Pals
The Center for Peace Education requested funds to implement a peaceful conflict resolution team in the school. Peace Pals will teach skills in conflict management and diversity appreciation once a week in elementary and middle school.

Diversity In Action: Breaking Social Boundaries
A middle school requested funds for yearlong activities and events focused on social boundaries in the school. The Mix It Up planner is being utilized as a guide for the first series of discussion.

Mix It Up Thursdays
Holt High School will participate in a series of activities to address racial and religious differences in the high school. The school will host a number of activities twice a month throughout the school year to increase awareness of racial and religious differences.

It's a Wrap
A student group at a predominantly white private school requested funds to assist immigrant families and their children affected by a hurricane in Florida during the holiday season. Many of the families were unemployed due to being unable to work when the many hotels and restaurants were destroyed during the hurricane.

Nationalities Within Our School
Garden Spot middle school requested funds to enhance the cultural awareness within the middle school. The students will create a showcase of photographs and other artwork to be displayed throughout the school.

Awareness Week
Smithtown High School West requested funds to host an awareness week to promote cultural awareness to their school. The daily projects would include a presentation from the GSA, a multi-faith forum, and an hour-long presentation of GLIWAC wheelchair basketball league.

HP Welcome Crew
Students at Holland Patent High School will implement a mentoring program. Juniors and seniors from various backgrounds were recruited to host group projects in an effort to cross social boundaries within the school.

Making Cultural Connections for Student Success
A group of students will collaborate with prospective teachers to forge relationships from diverse backgrounds to strategize and share methods and techniques for facilitating youth-directed activist projects with students in future classrooms.

Youth Leadership Elberton
Youth Leadership of Elberton requested funds for a group of diverse high school students to receive training about selected leadership theories and concepts to face the challenges of the school community. Students will complete a community service project using the Servant Leadership model.

The SHOUT Project
A 17-year-old student activist of SHOUT in Louisiana requested funds to increase awareness about youth with mental, physical and emotional disabilities e excluded from mainstream educational settings. The project will provide an opportunity for students to interact in a different social setting.

Breaking Down Barriers at Brandeis
The Hispanic/Latino Organization at Brandeis University requested funds to purchase materials for Hispanic Heritage Month workshops. The workshops will address barriers faced by the Hispanic community on their campus.

Main South Oral History Project
The youth activist group Neighborhood Strength will create an oral history project to identify environmental health issues affecting low-income neighborhoods comprised of Latino, refugee and immigrant people. The project will connect diverse groups of youth as they work to build community.

Getting the Bully Out of Pierce Middle School
Students at Pierce Middle School will use The Revealers to address problems of bullying and harassment in their school. The students will read the book, participate in an interactive workshop with the author and conclude with student-led discussion and activities related to preventing bullying and harassment in schools.

Bladen County Teen Summit
Members of Bladen County 4-H will host a Teen Summit for youth, parents and community leaders. The annual teen summit will address issues of racism and class division in the community and how dominant identity groups can serve as allies.

Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow
The Interact Service Club and Unity Cultural Club will host a cultural awareness workshop for students in an elementary school with a high risk population.

Justice and Peace Institute Student-Led Social Action
Justice and Peace Institute requested funds for a weeklong training of ethnically and racially diverse high school students. Students will plan and implement a plan of action on issues related to war, refugees and other social justice issues in their community.

Y-Lead
The teen program Y-Lead requested funds to conduct an eight-week workshop and dialogue Study Circles on topics such as racial tensions, gender issues, socioeconomic disparities, poverty and health care.

Girls in Science Summer Enrichment Camp
A girls science program in North Carolina requested funds to host a camp addressing the issue of women's role in the sciences. The camp will bring students from inner-city schools, suburban schools, and magnet schools together.

Unity In the Community
Highland High School will host "Unity in the Community" in response to racial tensions at the school. Members of the school clubs and organizations will come together to show unity after negative media attention was directed at the school.

Bully Resistance Intervention Grice Helping Teens (BRIGHT) Club
The Bright Club at Grice Middle School requested funds to raise awareness about bullying in their school. The group will focus on promotion of tolerance and altering the culture of the school by implementing a mentoring program and creating murals around the school focusing on acceptance and respect.

Know Your Neighbors Lunch Series
Southside Middle School's S.A.V.E. program requested funds to hold a series of student-led dialogues with the middle school's ESOL program during the lunch period in an effort to build community and increase students understanding of different cultures. The school's goal is to decrease racial and religious tensions existing in the school.

A Celebration of Nations
Owatonna Junior High, in collaboration with a local community group will host a "Celebration of Nations" event in response to the significant increase in minority students. Students will research and present different aspects of other cultures to their peers at area elementary schools. The students will be responsible for planning and implementing the celebration.

Days of Remembrance Paperclip Campaign
The STAND Club at Northglenn High School will host a weeklong event in remembrance of the Holocaust. Students will set up a booth with information, and provide paperclips for all students to wear showing their support of equality and opposition to racism, prejudice and hate crimes.

Bronzeville Youth Summit
Centers for New Horizons requested funds to bring youth from different factions of the community together to provide workshops about issues of conflict resolution, student leadership and community building.

Diversity Circles/Peace Tour
A group of students will participate in a Race Relations Leadership Retreat in order to implement effective peer mediation in their area schools. The training will cover conflict resolution as well as cultural and diversity issues.

People Colors
Pivik Elementary School in Pittsburgh requested funds to promote the concept of fairness and tolerance. A kindergarten teacher and a fourth-grade teacher will combine their classes to identify tolerance-related themes from selected books. The students will then create their own book about tolerance and present their findings to other classrooms.

Culture Concepts
Two high school clubs requested funding to host monthly forums throughout the school year on different cultural concepts. The students live in a rural area without much exposure to other cultures and want to increase awareness of other cultures and dispel general stereotypes by bringing in a diverse group of presenters.

Challenge Day
Students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., will host three challenge days -- three-hour workshops engaging participants in activities and dialogue challenging the social boundaries and cliques in the school.

Break Down the Wall
Students at Deer Lake Middle School in Pennsylvania will conduct a number of student-led discussions, assemblies and activities throughout the year helping students learn to be more accepting of others. Students will work toward eliminating stereotypes among peers and empower the student body to create positive experiences promoting a safer school environment.

Tolerance Task Force
A diverse group of 25 sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Lamberton Middle School will receive training on ways to combat and interrupt behaviors, interactions and languages that hurt, disrespect and isolate members of the school community. Students will present three assemblies to the school.

Henry Ford Museum -- Rosa Parks Exhibit
The newly formed Mix It Up Club at Carlson Elementary will visit the Henry Ford museum's Rosa Parks exhibit. Students will visit the museum and talk about the importance of Rosa Parks taking a stand, and ways they can stand against intolerance.

Wall of Diversity & Special Edition Project
Thirty-five students at Sonnyslope Elementary will create a wall of diversity displaying their experiences and feelings about racism in the school.

Student Cross-Cultural Exchange Project
Nederland Middle/Senior High, a predominantly white school, requested funds to participate in a student cross-cultural exchange project. Students visit diverse school settings and collaborate with students of different races, ethnicities and socio-economic status.

Youth Encouraging Support (Y.E.S)
A student-led organization requested funds to educate their peers on youth with mental health, emotional and/or behavioral disorders. Students experience name calling and bullying because of their disorders. The students will hold assemblies in area junior high and senior high schools to address stereotypes and myths.

Integrating Our Youths and Appreciating Diversity
Mathe Jordan-Delaware School requested funds for fifth graders to plan weekly dialogues to address issues of cultural diversity in their school. The students will plan role-playing skits to perform and will purchase books and videos on different cultures to share with other fifth graders.

Operation Breaking Stereotypes
Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice will use Mix It Up grant funds for their Operation Breaking Stereotypes project. The project matches different schools with one another in order to lift barriers and unite youth in their pursuit for social justice. Students will engage in both formal and informal activities geared toward breaking down stereotypes and building community across social boundaries.

Arts Impact Cultural Festival
The Arts Impact Middle School requested funds to host a school-wide culture festival. The festival would give students of various cultures and backgrounds the opportunity to come together for a common cause and celebrate the diversity of the school community.

Teen Summit-Youth Victimization
Students at Lakeview High School will host a teen summit on youth victimization in an effort to respond to the increase in a number of students being harassed because of perceived differences. Students will be required to do research on an area of intolerance and teen victimization as well as create and conduct a school survey.

Reach Out and Lend a Hand
Students at Bosti Elementary School will support a local high school club building a home for victims of Hurricane Katrina with Habitat for Humanity. The elementary students will prepare breakfast and sack lunches for the high schools students in addition to writing letters to local businesses and companies in support of the high school students.

Banishing Bullies Puppet Show
Students at Gloversville Middle School requested funding for the production of a school puppet show that will address bullying, name calling and lack of acceptance among peers. There will be 18 students participating in this production.

Gay Straight Alliance Community Project
The GSA at Chariho High School will host a team-building day to address homophobia in school. Speakers and workshops throughout the day will address hurtful language directed toward students in the GLBTQ community.

Dafur Awareness
A group of students at Springside School were inspired to increase student awareness of genocide after viewing the film "Hotel Rwanda". The students conducted a presentation to middle school students in grades 5-8 and will invite a neighboring middle school to participate in day of workshops.

Open Dialogue Led by Project GAIA
The student-run, peer-leadership group GAIA (Growing Up as an Individual In America), focusing on fighting hatred and bigotry, will host five open meetings with students, parents, faculty and community members to discuss the many issues of prejudice and bias in their community.

Diversity Day
The Diversity Club at Newtown High School will host a Diversity Day with a panel discussion, workshops facilitated by students, an open mic and a host of other tolerance related activities. The student facilitators will be trained by the Anti-Defamation League to lead group discussions.

Family Cultural Festival
Against All Odds Youth Foundation requested funds to raise awareness of the different cultures in an increasingly diverse community for children in an after-school program. The project's goal is to increase understanding and appreciation of other cultures.

Shifting Attitudes: Steps to Sustaining Diversity
An estimated 100 students in the Jesuit High School Diversity Club will participate in a "Shifting -Attitudes" presentation and training in a school where name-calling, using in appropriate racial and degrading language and cliques are increasing due to a changing population. The training will provide students and teachers with ways to deal with the situations at school.

Cultural Coffee House Series
A small charter school housing 300 students in grades 6-12 will sponsor a program called the "Cultural Coffee House Series" once a month during lunchtime to highlight a different culture to increase students appreciation of differences. There are fourteen students on the planning committee.

Theater for Peace
The Foothills Arts Center, in collaboration with middle and high school students, requested funding to present a theatrical play on bullying, stereotyping, feelings of isolation in school and school cliques.

Cultural Awareness Diversity -- Dance
An estimated 30 members of the Cultural Diversity Club at Campbellsville High School is sponsoring a Diversity Week. The week will begin with a kick-off dance where neighboring school districts will be invited to attend the events; a dialogue session will be held after Mix It Up at Lunch Day.

Tolerance Court
A group of 50 students in Cincinnati, Ohio, will simulate a courtroom to address racial and religious intolerance they have seen in their communities. Students were inspired to take action after discussing media reporting of racial incidents in their community.

Diversity Week
Students at Hellgate High School requested funds to host a weeklong diversity conference consisting of workshops and presentations to the student body. The weeklong event will end with a dialogue forum organized and conducted by students.

Positive Cooperative Efforts Among Pre-teens
Alliance Middle School students will host workshops with topics including anti-bullying efforts, violence reduction, harassment and cultural tolerance. They will also develop a plan of action to increase positive cooperative efforts among students.

Multicultural Extravaganza
Adamson Middle School requested funding to present a platform where students and parents can spread the logic of uniting and debunk stereotypes throughout the community. The school demographics have changed over the last two years with an increasing number of Hispanic, Asian and African American families.

Multicultural Dialogue Program
Students at West Aurora High School requested funds to host seven dialogue sessions addressing racial tension in school. Student members of the multicultural club and two adult allies will facilitate the dialogue sessions.

Best Buddies
The Best Buddies project partners high school and college students with intellectually disabled people in an effort to change the idea that disabled students shouldn't interact with other students.

Don't Forget to Remember
The GIFT Foundation requested funds to assist production of a play titled "Don't Forget to Remember." The play brings high school students from private, public and magnet schools together to address stereotypes of African American heritage and people of color. Last year's cast included students from various ethnic — Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Indian, white and African American — and socio- economic backgrounds.

Project Cool: Health Disparities Symposium
Benedict College Learning Center will use funds to host a health care disparities symposium. Sixty middle and high school students will join 12 college students to assist production of the symposium. The purpose of the symposium will be to heighten student awareness of the disparities existing across racial and ethnic groups.

Performance Poetry: A Catalyst for Common Ground
Students from 10 high schools in northern and central Illinois will host a Poetry Slam involving 500-700 students to encourage dialogue between GLBTQ and heterosexual students. The Poetry Slam theme will be overcoming homophobia and the incited hate crimes. A local poet whose daughter faced ridicule after coming out in her local high school inspired students.

Painter's Palette
An African American church will collaborate with a mixed race church on an art project about past civil rights leaders in Memphis Tennessee. Students will complete research on 15 local individuals who helped further the Civil Rights Movement and will summarize the data to create a Painter's Palette display.

A Day in the Life - Youth Unity Project
Funds were requested to bring students from three school districts to collaboratively brainstorm and discuss the communities in which they live. The group will coordinate a one-day program to photograph different parts of a rural upstate New York county. The project will also be used to dispel stereotypes of students from different areas. Students will add their photos to poems and essays and produced into a small booklet.

See the Difference Road Trip
Step-by-Step, Inc., requested funds for their teen-dream leaders to travel to another city to "see the difference" in community cultures. The group will meet with other teen groups to address stereotypes and how to break down those barriers of others. The group has 30 youth who are involved in this program.

Mix It Up for Progress Youth Conference
Citizens in Action, along with South Carolina United Action and South Carolina Environmental Watch, will organize and host a youth conference. Using the Mix Dialogue process, a group of 75-100 youth will come together to address the crisis in education in their communities. The students will represent three different regions in South Carolina crossing social boundaries along the lines of race, gender and socio-economic backgrounds.

Let's Get Real: Anti-Bullying Program
The YWCA Racial Justice program will host a two-hour youth facilitated presentation about helping middle school students understand the affect of bullying. The presentation will provide a venue for youth voices to be heard on the following issues: racial differences, sexual orientation, disabilities and religious differences.

Celebrating Cultures
The Lowery Freshman Center school district has 20 different languages. Three teen leadership groups will work closely with the ESL teacher to identify different cultures and languages on the campus and interview the students about their experience on the campus and ways to break down fears, stereotypes and other barriers. The week will consist of daily announcements with "did you know" facts about the different cultures and student interviews.

G.W.E.N. Project
The local community group Qteam will host a "train the trainer" workshop for student leaders organizing LGBTQI youth of color in their communities. The goal is to empower and build on the capacity and skills of LGBTQI students. Workshops addressing various forms or prejudice, power and privilege in the LGBTQI community will be addressed.

Community Youth Lead Research-Cliques
The Humble Community Learning Center requested funds to complete research addressing and examining roles of cliques in secondary level schools and ways to foster tolerance among diverse groups of students. The objective of the project is recognizing how adolescents welcome or block people from their social group and to determine if they can be open to students who are different.

Activist Training Camp
The Student Environmental Action Coalition, a grass-root youth organization requested funds to assist with an annual training camp for youth activist. They will have workshops on skill building and also to provide tools.

Safe Spaces Project
The Diversity Council at Gresham High School conducted a survey to determine the types of differences causing conflict in their schools. The information prompted the students to develop a packet of information for teachers to raise their awareness of students being harassed. Teachers will be asked to sign a pledge stating they will intervene and have their classroom serve as "Safe Space."

A Journey to Acceptance
The student council at North Shore Middle School will host a school-wide program for grades 6-8 addressing issues of intolerance and disrespect displayed between peers in their school. They will host a performance of 'Differences, Gotta Have 'em,' a play involving 35 area high schools. After the performance, topics will be presented to students in their perspective classrooms for open discussion.

Express Yourself Tolerance Assembly
A high school student in Pasadena, Calif., is coordinating efforts with members of the Black Student Union and the Latin American Student Association to address brown/black racial tensions. They will host an assembly with activities and workshops exploring racial stereotyping, myths and intolerance. The event is strategically scheduled to take place between Black History Month and Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

Tolerance Project
A student at Unionville High School in Kennet Square, Pa., started a group on campus to "raise awareness for the lack of tolerance and respect for diversity in the high school." The student states there have been recent incidents of intolerance directed against "non-white and non-Christian students." She proposes offering different activities during the spring semester to "foster a spirit of cooperation."

Faces of Diversity: Brown Bag Lunch Series
Students, faculty, community artists and activists associated with Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, La., will host discussions and activities during a series of workshops. Issues to be covered include the Holocaust, race, homophobia, gender, disability and religion.

ACT Conference 2005
The second annual ACT Conference, sponsored by student group ACT- Active and Compassionate Teens, in Wilmington, Del., will feature workshops and presentations on student activism, poverty, LGBTQ acceptance, the death penalty, international health and the environment.

Project Safe Zone
Youth organizers at Santa Monica High School in California will plan and lead an all-day program for students. Student leaders will address sexism and homophobia by leading discussions, video presentations and interactive activities for approximately 70 teens on March 4.

The Real Show
Two community-based youth agencies, the Spot Teen Center and the Urban Artist Collective, support a quarterly talk show created, directed, produced and performed by youth. The Real Show addresses teen issues from a teenıs point of view on topics such as race, religion, violence and peer pressure.

No Limit to Legos
The No Limits to Legos program will increase disability awareness, decrease the use of negative stereotypes and improve attitudes toward people with disabilities. Youth ages 8-13, will work in teams to create solutions making chosen public spaces more accessible using legos.

Women's Rights Conference 2005
The 5th Annual Women's Rights Conference is run entirely by undergraduate students at University of California, Berkeley. The event includes speakers, panels and workshops covering a range of topics including immigration and labor rights, fat activism, feminist art, transgender activism and women and the criminal justice system. The event is free, open to all genders and offers childcare, ASL and Spanish language interpretation.

Friendship Day
Davis Senior High School in Davis, Calif., began hosting "Friendship Days" over 20 years ago in response to the on-campus murder of a student. The all-day event is offered 7 times during the school year for groups of 50 students. The dayıs activities and discussions are led by youth.

Operation Opt-Out
A community-based organization in Ventura, Calif., will provide education and training for youth organizers to prepare for a one-year action. The project's goal is increasing the number of high school juniors and seniors who don't release contact information to military recruiters at Oxnard Union High School.

Let's Get Personal
A high school senior class senator in Dallas, Texas, proposes a series of Mix It Up activities supporting school unity. He will work with other student leaders and teachers to provide opportunities for students to get to know one another better. The project will be coordinated to reach each student by running once a week throughout the school year.

Lunch Buddy Mentoring Dialogue
Through a six-week mentoring program, high school students identified as high academic and/or athletic achievers will meet with six low-performing middle school students over lunch once a week. The program will repeat with six new students each six weeks. The Mix It Up Dialogue process will be used for four weeks followed by one-on-one sessions the remaining two weeks.

School Culture
LEAH, a not-for-profit organization in Delray Beach, Fla., will produce a video of students sharing their experiences with culture and tradition in school. A student will moderate the forum for a group of 30 youth from culturally and ethnically diverse experiences. Videotapes will be made available to student groups and educators within the area.

IB Diversity Initiative
A student attending a high school in Charlotte, N.C., is concerned about the social boundaries created as a result of the different magnet programs on campus. She is a part of the International Baccalaureate magnet and proposes to host a "Festival of Festivals" to bring all the magnets together for education and entertainment.

Mobile Art Project
The Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth at the University of Massachusetts Boston collected artwork from area APA youth for exhibit at 12 high schools. The Coalition sought to bring attention to Asian American Heritage Month in May. Organizers created the Mobile Art Project as way for the voices of APA youth to be heard as a community and to challenge common misconceptions about their life experiences.

Books Not Bombs Youth Convergence
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition hosted over 600 youth activists in New York City on August 28. The Books No Bombs agenda is youth created and centers around five major areas including funding for education, military recruitment in schools, youth civil liberties, campuses for peace and schools, not jails. The day began with a plenary session featuring slam poetry, followed by issue-based workshops, vision and strategy discussions, skills training, and a closing with an open mic session.

Mix It Up at Lunch
After organizing a successful Mix It Up Up at Lunch Day last year, Lamberton Middle School in Carlisle, Pa., designed a project to extend the experience. They designated a special area of the dining area to serve as a weekly meeting place for students and staff to ımix it up.ı Students were randomly selected to participate in lunch conversation with one another facilitated by a faculty member.

Mixing Up Rival & Stereotypical Schools
This student-led project offered two, four-week Mix It Up Dialogue group series for students of rival high schools in Transylvania County, N.C., Though actual student participation was only from Rosman High school, the project was a success. Dialogues identifiyed the cliques and social boundaries at Rosman High and the challenges of reaching across the boundaries. The culminating event was a "Next Steps" forum. Students presented community leaders with action ideas generated at the final dialogue session about ways to address social boundaries in schools and communities.

Oppression Awareness Week
A student conceived and implemented program that began three years ago at Highland High School in Utah seeks to raise the awareness of students, faculty, staff and parents about various forms of oppression. Themed lunchtime activities included "Break Away Your Bias" and "Disability Lunch." At "Break Away Your Bias," students were asked questions about discrimination and oppression. They were also invited to wear medical masks saying "Oppression is a widely spread disease." For "Disability Lunch," students came to a free lunch, but were required to temporarily submit to an exercise rendering them disabled.

Anti-Racism & Lateral Oppression Workshop
Members of the Teen Action Committee of Spaulding High School in Barre, Vt., attended a workshop of the same title and sought funds to present a revised version to students and staff in their school. Students will develop and present the workshop with adult support.

Books Not Bombs Youth Convergence
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition is working with Uptown Youth for Peace and Justice in Harlem in outreach efforts toward youth of color and working class youth for participation at the event in August. The NYSPC will schedule identity-based caucuses and community conversations to set priorities, goals and concerns during the convergence.

Exhale
The Asian Student Union at the University of Florida seeks funds to host an open microphone night addressing the surge in anti-Asian incidents on campus. Spoken word artists, poets and musicians are invited to speak their mind in a positive space. The project has the support and involvement of the Black Student Union and organizers continue outreach to other groups on campus.

The Student Voice
Approximately 100 students from throughout the county of Warren, Pa., will serve as staff for The Student Voice, a new student newspaper. The paper will be written and edited by students in grades 8-12 and distributed quarterly free of charge to every student in the county through homeroom classes. Under the direction of Youth Volunteer Corp., the four students who designed the project felt it would be "a perfect vehicle for community change and would help break down regional and social barriers while promoting unity through awareness." The group hopes to have the first printing in November 2004.

Student Council Exchange
A homogeneous middle school in Indianola, Iowa is proposing an exchange visit of student council members from their school and another more racially diverse middle school in Des Moines. They have planned a program to help break down stereotypes and misunderstanding during the campus visits.