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NAIS Challenge 20/20: “Solving Global Problems Two Schools at a Time”. Paul Miller, Director of Global Initiatives - NAIS [email protected]. The Book: High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global community. Global warming - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Paul Miller, Director of Global Initiatives - NAIS
NAIS Challenge 20/20: “Solving Global Problems Two Schools at a Time”
The Book: High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global community
Global warming
Biodiversity and ecosystem losses
Fisheries depletion
Deforestation
Water deficits
Maritime safety and pollution
Sharing our humanity: Issues requiring a global
commitment Massive step-up in the fight against poverty
Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism
Education for all
Global infectious diseases
Digital divide
Natural disaster prevention and mitigation
Sharing our rule book: Issues needing a global regulatory
approach
Reinventing taxation for the twenty-first century
Biotechnology rules
Global financial architecture
Illegal drugs
Trade, investment, and competition rules
Intellectual property rights
E-commerce rules
International labor and migration rules
Current institutions ill prepared and insufficiently agile to deal with these problems
Create new networks
Why not student networks?
Three Programs:
Challenge 20/20, the
Global Issues Network
and the Student News
action Network
Challenge 20/20: International education
program
Internet-based program with no cost and no travel required
Cross-cultural partnerships
Open to public and private schools, elementary and secondary
Goals
Creative problem-solving
Collaboration
Communication with students from a different country and culture
Community service, service learning
Learning different
perspectives
Partnerships
Some schools are already working
together (sister schools etc).
Others are paired by NAIS based on grade level
topic of interest
preferred partner school and/or location
when they want to start (1st or 2nd term)
Structure
Relatively unstructured: no benchmarks or performance standards
Paperwork: registration process; reports
Participants
1500 U.S. schools/classes and 1,000 non-U.S. institutions
Almost 1,000 partnerships.
Schools in more than 100 countries and 47 U.S. states have participated.
2010-2011
175 Teams
450 Schools
56 Countries
44 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
North Carolina Participants
Union Academy, Monroe, NC
Carver High School, Winston-Salem, NC
Canterbury School, Greensboro, NC
to Participate in Challenge 20/20:
Term One: (September to December) or Term Two: (January to May)
All applications for either term are to be submitted to NAIS by August 31
Partnerships and announcements are made at the end of August/beginning of September
Apply online at: http://www.nais.org/go/challenge2020.
Examples
the Montessori School of Denver (Colorado) and the Imwiko Basic School of Zambia
the students designed, built, and tested a collapsible mosquito spring net based on a child’s toy or a collapsible laundry basket.
The online site included areas for posting photos, drawings, and video as well as discussion blogs as an effective way to tweak and bring the “spring net design” to reality.
ExamplesMount Saint Joseph Academy, Flourtown, PA, and St. Joseph's Convent Girls' Senior Secondary School, Jabalpur, India
Global problem: Infectious Diseases9-12
Students launched a charitable partnership with two impoverished towns in India.
Examples
Elementary School Partnership
PK-5Bright School, Chattanooga, TN, partnered with Colegio
Cristobal Colon, Lomas Verdes, Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico.
Global Problem: Water Deficits
Students are running informational campaigns including public service TV spots they created, to encourage water conservation.
Examples
St. Mary’s Episcopal School, Memphis Tennessee and Steigerwald Landschulheim Gymnasium
Wiesentheid Germany
9-12Global Infectious Diseases
Schools concentrated on hygiene
Created The Helping Hands Program
Sanitizers and educational tools put in to the Hospital Benjamin Bloom in El Salvador, working with an NGO there
GIN in Europe, Asia and the Middle East
Student News Action Network Globally
Now affiliated with taking It Global – new website coming
Current site: http://www.studentnewsaction.net/