March 10th Meeting

21 students and Ms. Collopy, one of our Geography teachers, attended our meeting this week. Our first order of business was to pass out pledge sheet for our H2O Walk for Life event comming up on March 22nd. We are teaming with the High School International Club to raise both funds and awareness around access to clean water. The funds we raise will go to support the Guatemalan school pictured below.


Next we agreed on a design for our club T-Shirt. It will be a blue shirt printed with a green Earth map. The top of the shirt will say IGH International Club. "We are the World" will be printed under the map. Students will use puff paint to mark places on the globe that they have connections to.

At snack time the students enjoyed a Somali cake and cookies from Italy. The leaders were impressed that the students could predict that an African store would sell Italian cookies because of past colonialism.

Our final activity engaged the students in a dialog about race. Students learned that humans come in a continuum of colors instead of black, red, yellow and white. We also introduced the concept of race as a social construct.






Our next meeting will be March 17th. Our goal is to finalize our h2O for life plans, start T-shirt orders and work on our North American cultures research starting with a dream catcher making activity. See you there.