Youth Leadership Summit
What is the Youth Leadership Summit?
The People Speak, the United Nations Foundation, the National Forensic League, and IDEA are organizing the first annual Youth Leadership Summit. The Summit will take place July 17-19, 2008. It will feature opportunities for high school students and educators, including presentations, UN tours, and skill building workshops for student leaders. Educators will participate in a professional development training session on how to bring global issues into their classrooms.
Youth Climate Pledge
Prior to arriving at the summit, student can start the debate and discussion. Check out the Youth Climate Pledge. Add your ideas and thoughts to this collaborative online document. We want YOUR ideas about what we can all do to address climate change in our homes, schools, communities, and countries. During the afternoon of the first day of the summit, we'll discuss the ideas and pick the top ones for each category. During the second day, you will learn how to take this pledge created BY YOU back to your community and make the ideas reality.
Register to Attend
Registration for the event has opened. Register now, spaces are going fast! Registration fees are $125 per person and covers:
- Three days of conference sessions and a service project
- Breakfast and lunch each day of the conference
- Closing dinner and cruise around New York on the Circle Line Boat
- Conference materials
- Official summit t-shirt
Registration deadline is June 30, 2008.
The official hotel of the summit:
Grand Hyatt New York
109 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
(212) 883-1234
www.grandnewyork.hyatt.com
Ask for "UNF Summit" when making reservations
The room rate is $262/night. Each room will have one King and one roll away bed accomodating up to 3 people. This rate is valid until June 25. After this date, prevailing hotel rates apply.
Win a Trip to the Youth Summit!
All high schools (both in the U.S. and international) participating in the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 TPS Global Debates will be eligible to compete to win an all expense paid trip to the summit for their four-person student debate team and two teachers.
The top 16 teams (10 from the U.S. and 6 international) will win all-expenses paid trips.
Who can Attend?
Students aged 15-19 are eligible to attend. An adult must accompany participants. This can be an educator, debate coach or parent/guardian. The online form allows for the adult to register up to eight students at one time and pay registration cost by credit card.
Global Debates and Report Locally Contest Winners:
If you are a member of the four-person Global Debate debate team or one of their two educators, we will contact you via email to register you.
If you are a member of the two-person Report Locally contest winners or their educator, we will contact you via email to register you.
Traveling to New York
Regular attendees (those not coming as part of the Global Debate and Report Locally contest winners) are responsible for their own travel to New York. There are three airports close to Manhattan - JFK, LaGuardia and Newark.
Amtrak is also a great way to travel to New York. Not only does the train drop you off in the middle of Manhattan, it is also a greener way to travel. The U.S. Department of Energy notes that Amtrak is 17 percent more efficient than domestic airline travel and 21 percent more efficient than auto travel on a per-passenger-mile basis.
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