Project Change also serves as the “hub” for youth by bringing together student representatives from all 7 schools twice a per month to work collaboratively on community service projects and special Project Change events throughout the year.

 

• Blake High School
• Club members have been collecting used computers to refurbish and give to students in the Blake community who do not have a computer. This spring they will be sponsoring a Bingo Night fundraiser for the Garden of Eden Orphanage in Haiti.
• Our Lady of Good Counsel High School
• Club members held a Gingerbread House-Making Contest before the Holidays to raise money for their sister school in Moldova. They are preparing for their 2nd Annual Carnival for Children with Special Needs on April 9 at Good Counsel from 1-4pm.
• Magruder High School
• Club members sponsored a Nonperishable Food Drive before the Holidays for Manna Food Center (largest food bank in Montgomery County). They will be selling Candy Grams for Valentine’s Day to raise money for Blake’s sister school, Hage Geingob HS, in Namibia.
• Sandy Spring Friends School
• Students will be engaged in hands-on learning about all aspects of a healthy sustainable food system through Project Change’s GrowingSoul program including: gathering compostables; growing soil and vermicomposting; growing, harvesting and preparing food; and converting waste vegetable oil to fuel for a Zero-Waste carbon neutral food cycle. They will be able to share their knowledge with their community.
• Sherwood High School
• Club members sponsored a Clothing Drive before the Holidays. Currently, they are collecting gently used jeans for the Teens for Jeans Drive. Jeans will be donated to teens at homeless shelters. On April 15 from 7-9pm at Sherwood HS, this Club will hold a Staff-Student Co-ed Basketball Game to raise money for research/support for children with diabetes.
• Rosa Parks Middle School
• Before the Holidays, Club members sponsored a collection for Abused/Neglected Animals. A total of $101 was donated to the Montgomery County Humane Society. Club members are preparing to collect items for Project Night Night. Night Night totes will be distributed to children at a local homeless shelter.
• William H. Farquhar Middle School
• Club members collected new and gently used coats before the Holidays, which were donated to Interfaith Works. Their next project, collecting items for young patients at Children’s Hospital in DC, will begin Feb. 16.

An interactive, peer mentoring program where younger students have the opportunity to participate in:

-Identifying and planning community service activities

-Personal goal setting and self assessment

-Leadership skills development

YES provides students the opportunity to create their own service projects by offering support and guidance throughout the development and implementation phases.

“PROJECT CHANGE allows me to do something I want to do, and it is teaching me how to make it happen.”

Middle and high school students are encouraged to submit a proposal describing in detail their project ideas.

This Bullying Prevention Peer Education Project helps youth confront the serious problem of bullying head on with a youth-led mentoring program in which older students teach younger students about the characteristics and consequences of bullying and how to reduce it in their communities.

Sustainable Opportunities for Universal Living GS helps create healthy soil in which good food and strong communities grow and thrive. It teaches about the Zero-Waste food cycle focusing on composting.

YES provides students the opportunity to create their own service projects by offering support and guidance throughout the development and implementation phases.