How Champions Have Changed Their Schools...
- Students from Simon Gratz High School created the Days of Kindness campaign in response to the senseless killing of Philadelphia students by sending out anti-violence petitions and writing poems in memory of friends
- Students from University City High School refurbished an abandoned classroom to create a space for a service-learning center
- Students from Parkway Northwest High School organized a teach-in for Martin Luther King Jr. Day to educate their peers on the history of civil rights and current social justice issues
- Students from Simon Gratz High School created a Champions club partnering life skills students with other students to do service
- Students from Lower Merion and Harriton High Schools created a Healthy Body Image Day addressing anorexia, bulimia, and healthy habits
How Champions Have Changed Their Communities...
- Stephanie Oliver, University City High School, started a literacy program for 350 inner city elementary school students that taught them all to read on grade level
- Terrell McCray, High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, started a not-for- profit organization to provide mentors to young African American men without fathers
- Ariel Gold, Council Rock High School, created a Bagel Run offering bagels to family members in waiting rooms of area hospitals
- Jasmine Rushum, Carver High School for Engineering and Science, provided workshops for younger girls which taught life skills and fostered self-esteem
- Ryan Lock, Radnor High School, created an anti-cyberspace bullying campaign
How Champions Have Changed Their World...
- Nathan Dorfman, Central High School, organized the Silly String Fund to collect cans of Silly String, which is used to help American soldiers detect trip wires in Iraq
- Tara Mastoris, Villa Joseph Marie High School, raised $10,000 for the Harambee Orphanage Home Project in Kenya to build orphanages for children orphaned due to AIDS
- Christine Prifti, Lower Merion High School, created an awareness campaign to educate her peers and the community about the issues of child soldiering and the dangers of landmines and organized a gala which raised $8,000 to benefit the United Movement to End Child Soldiering in Uganda
