My progress as of now...

You know, I may have been like that one kid in the corner that solves rubik's cubes who didn't really care about all this... But... I have been working with my IB Coordinator in order to create some day where all the IB and Pre-IB students at my school talk about CAS. No not like some huge discussion. We get people who have gone internationally over the summer about volunteering ideas, and people like us, who went to this meeting and came up with projects. During this "IB night" we proposed to do a fair type thing, where we set up poster boards and show our ideas and what is to come if our idea spreads. The day has been approved by the faculty and I was hoping to get more information about our group, "Awareness To Action". Seeing how we came up with it, but did not really go into further detail about what we might be doing and future planned events. Since we're all seperated, we can't come up with an idea that we all can work on (technically we can) but, we did not. Also, we are also planning on doing something with Peace One Day, and with other schools in Oregon, I proposed the idea, if we are near an area called Delta Park, we could gather the schools up there and arrange a soccer match between the schools or a mix of people in different schools. So if you're in the Oregon area and would like to do this, arrange an assembly at your school or some way of telling people about Peace One Day and if the Delta Park game pulls through, I'll tell you when to meet there and where to find the schools, etc.

-Alexander Tran (Columbia River High School - Vancouver, Washington).

The Launch

This is the christening of the Awareness to Action team blog. This team is a group of students in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program from various countries around the world, all of whom met originally at the 2010 IB World Student Conference in Corvallis, Oregon. Collectively this group of students aims to write articles on issues and topics that are important and interesting to them both globally and locally. Within each of their own schools they will compose a newsletter of the articles written by their fellow peers on this site. The articles aim to be non-biased, but instead offer a logical progression of why these issues or topics are important to every citizen of humanity. Along with the IB program these students are united by an idea of global citizenship, which involves realizing that the problems of other countries are problems of the world, and we are all united under the banner of  Humanity. Through these no-bias articles we hope to raise awareness locally about global topics. In conjunction with Taking IT Global (http://projects.tigweb.org/a2a) founded by Michael Furdyk we hope to spread the idea of global citizenship and that all of humanity should be educated on issues that affect the world over.

Objectives:
-To start newsletters at schools with participating students informing others of Global issues
-To inform students of Global issues, and provide them with ways to take action
-To create a community of support for involved students
-Provide a resource containing a list of organizations working to solve universal goals
-To involve future students to create a self sustaining community committed to awareness and inspiring change
 
We hope to have launched our first newsletters by September 2nd and to have many more posts before and after that!
We will keep you posted, subscribe now for updates.
Thank you, and we hope to keep your support.
Taylor Martin