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State Farm and The National Youth Leadership Council Launch
Teen Safe Driving Campaign
March 10, 2004
State Farm® and the National Youth Leadership Council have announced the launch of a new nationwide service-learning project for high school students!
Project
Ignition '05 will showcase top service-learning projects (projects that
combine service to the community with learning objectives), created by
teenagers for teenagers, on an important issue affecting young people.
For 2005, the topic is Teen Driver Safety -- a particularly appropriate
choice as car crashes are the #1 killer of our youth. Project
Ignition is an opportunity for students and teachers in various classes
to work together to create a public awareness campaign for their school
and/or community on the subject of Teen Driver Safety. Step one includes
an application by interested schools signaling their idea and process.
The focus of the program is primarily on communication, how students
choose to address and educate their peers on teen driver safety is up to
them. Approximately 25 project ideas will be selected and awarded a
$2,000 grant -- funded by State Farm -- to make their project a reality. All
completed applications must have both principal and faculty signatures
and be postmarked by April 15, 2004. Check out www.sfprojectignition.com
for an application, thought starters, safety tips and more. The
grantees will be announced by June 5, 2004, and will implement their
programs when school begins in the fall for completion by December,
2004. Each school will be recognized on the Project Ignition Web site,
and completed projects will be judged by a representative panel of
teachers, students, NYLC and State Farm. Ten finalists will be selected
and each will receive a travel stipend provided by State Farm to present
or perform their project at the 2005 National Service-Learning
Conference in Long Beach, California, where the festival will be a
featured event. The project selected by a panel of judges as Best of
Festival at the 2005 conference will receive a grant of $10,000. "It's
an outstanding opportunity for schools and students ... and for the
long-term safety of all teen drivers in your community," states Jim
Kielsmeier, president of the National Youth Leadership Council, based in
Minnesota. "Our goal with this entire program is to help students
be able to effectively deliver the right message at the right time to
the right audience. When this happens, effective learning takes place
and these students will be able to measure how effectively they have
communicated to their peers," states Rick Resetar, Assistant Vice
President, Property & Casualty Marketing, State Farm. State
Farm supports service-learning because it strengthens student
achievement by helping connect academics with real-world experience.
This teaching approach prepares students to be more active citizens,
better- educated consumers and more qualified to enter the work force.
NYLC, a leading advocate of service-learning since 1983, works with
young people, educators, administrators and community leaders to
integrate service-learning practices into elementary, secondary and
post-secondary schools.
CONTACT:
Kathy Bardins of National Youth Leadership Council, 1-763-541-9363 Web sites: http://www.sfprojectignition.com/ [Source: National Youth Leadership Council]
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