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9th grade work / events / Global Engagement

Rochester Young Climate Leaders Summit

- April 14, 2021 - jthornburg24

On April 14 2021 I attend the RYCL summit from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. I had to miss a few classes but the sessions were informative and I learned so much! A rundown of the schedule is available here. The welcome and overview was from 9:00 – 9:30 and then the breakout seasons began

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9th grade work / best buddies

Best Buddies Friendship Walk 2021

- May 27, 2021 - jthornburg24

Before beginning to fundraise for this friendship, I brainstormed the following ideas: Some sort of clothes selling, like during this best buddies month any AC apparel you buy from the wolf den has a portion go to best buddies Loom video on how to donate  History of autistic characters in movies Movie night (could also

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9th grade work / best buddies

Chapter president of best buddies

- June 19, 2021 - jthornburg24

In October of 2020 I became chapter president of Allendale Columbia best buddies chapter after creating a beautiful slide show and being promoted by Mrs Oliveri (both the teacher of my making an impact globally and the leader of the center for entrepreneurship) Best is an organization that provides friendships, mentorships and inclusive living programs

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9th grade work / Making an impact globally

Transgender people and Uganda: problem and solution

- June 6, 2021 - jthornburg24

After some swot analysis, a divergent brainstorm, and an empathy map I have settled on the problem in Uganda. Genital multination, while this might not be really a transgender person problem, its pretty important so that babies aren’t operated on illegally. My solution to this problem is to educate the public on intersex and transgender

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9th grade work / Global Engagement / languages / Spanish

3 years of language study completed!!!

- June 6, 2021 - jthornburg24

I took a couple classes outside of school the summer in 2020 , which counted as one language credit. With my spanish one (completed at the end of the eight grade) and spanish two credits (completed at the end of ninth grade) this counts for three years of language study. So this is how my

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9th grade work / Global Engagement

Meeting with Skirmante

- June 6, 2021 - jthornburg24

Arranged for meeting with EU representing Lithuania in September-October And this how the chart looks now:

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9th grade work / Making an impact globally

Uganda and goal 5. Gender Equality

- March 25, 2021 - jthornburg24

I choose Uganda as it is low in the gender equality index provided by the UN (can also be found at this link), but not so low that it is the worst in the world. Uganda falls into the 63-94 ranked range, at about 65th rank, not terrible not great. Overview of Uganda This country

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Pecha Kucha Presentation on Goal 5. Gender Equality

- March 20, 2021 - jthornburg24

For this assignment of the making an impact: globally class we where shown a video on instruction on how to use adobe spark and unsplash to make a presentation using the pecka kucha style. The video on peck is embedded here, if you’re interested: If you didn’t watch it heres the rundown: PechaKucha (Japanese for

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An Overview of the Class Making an Impact Globally

- March 8, 2022 - jthornburg24

Here is a direct quote for my teacher about the making and impact globally class: About this Class Make an impact globally by seeking to understand the needs of humans and systems. Students work to identify and investigate challenges through the lens of the UN Sustainability Goals. This process utilizes the Design Thinking framework as

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Dr. Seuss and Racism: Infographic and Info

- March 8, 2022 - jthornburg24

This is a blog post that I made on making an impact globally blog that our whole class contributes to it is on our research on Seuss and the racist imagery in his books. Heres my infographic on Seuss and his books: What did you know about Dr. Seuss prior to our discussion?I thought that

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