Harvard C-CHANGE Youth Climate Summit
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Confronting Climate Change with Concrete Action Join like-minded students, engaging educators, and inspiring mentors this summer for a climate change program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Choose an Action Focus and delve into climate issues related to your interests, strengths, and passions. Gain perspective from policymakers and politicians. Meet inspiring climate activists, scientists, renewable energy innovators, and entrepreneurs at the forefront of addressing the climate crisis. Engage with climate change themes such as health, energy, water, transportation, and agriculture, and, over the course of the program, develop a capstone project focused on transforming your ideas into action.
Dates: July 25–August 2, 2020 Tuition: $3,750 Grades: 9–12 Location: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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Program Location Daily workshops, Action Focus meetings, and guest speaker events take place at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Offsite and field-based learning activities balance classroom and workshop time.
Activities & Excursions In addition to thematic program activities, students will explore all the culture, history, and cuisine that Boston and Harvard have to offer.
Community Become part of a community of high school students and instructors with diverse interests and a shared passion for addressing the climate crisis.
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Choose an Action Focus Based on your interests and personal goals for the future, choose a focus. This will be the angle from which you will approach the climate crisis over the course of the week. Choose one of five action focuses:
Science & Technology What roles do science and technology play in the mitigation of climate change?
Policy & Security Where does the U.S. stand on the international stage in its response to the climate crisis?
Industry Where do economic and environmental interests intersect, and can they be balanced to address climate change?
Community How can regular citizens be active participants in climate change awareness and action?
Press & Media How do mainstream and alternative news outlets narrate stories of climate change differently?
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“I am excited to be a part of a program at Harvard that will help give students the tools to tackle both the biggest challenge and opportunity of any generation born to this earth so far.� —Harvard Senior Fellow Governor Peter Shumlin, Guest Lecturer, Program Director
Gain inspiration from political and industry leaders Guest lecturers bring diverse backgrounds with high-level, real-world experiences and insights to the program. Each expert structures their lecture to one of the five Action Focuses.
Featured speakers include: Gina McCarthy 13th Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Chair, Board of Directors, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE)
Governor Peter Shumlin 81st Governor of Vermont Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Co-Director, Putney Student Travel
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Join us this summer! The Harvard C-CHANGE Youth Climate Summit is designed to educate, empower, and prepare students to take leadership roles in addressing the climate crisis. Students who attend this program will: Attain critical climate change content knowledge. Develop an action plan that can be implemented in their schools, communities, or life paths. Grow a network of peers and climate change leaders to continue the work started at the summit.
Apply today at goprecollege.com Or call 802.387.5000
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