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  • Seventh Graders Save Southern California’s Abalone

    Editor's Note: Funded by Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, STEMester of Service incorporates YSA’s semester-long service-learning Semester of Service framework to engage educators and students...
  • Planting Healthy Seeds and Deeds

      Wingfield Students & Farmer Tre' prep garden for GYSD! Editor’s Note:  Leading up to and post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2011, YSA will feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will...
  • Operation Earth Day

    The "Old Faithfuls" at one of their CLC projects Editor’s Note: Michelle is Sloss a 16 year-old high school junior in Washington, D.C. This year, she began her second year as a member of the Student Conservation Association’s (SCA)
  • Grow Food, Grow Hope

    Editor’s Note:  Leading up to and post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2011, YSA will feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers. Our bloggers will share information about their preparation,
  • Hunger No More: An Urban Garden

    Editor’s Note: Funded by Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, STEMester of Service incorporates YSA’s semester-long service-learning Semester of Service framework to engage educators and...
  • Native American Teens Bridge Cultures Through Art

    The Bridge: Native & Non Native Youth GYSD Project Flyer   Editor’s Note:  Leading up to and post Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2011, YSA will feature blogs from 15 official GYSD 2011 Bloggers.
  • Celebrating Youth Service

    Celebrating a day of service at the 2010 National Youth Service Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio. Editor's Note: Jordan Huizenga is Director of Development at Children, Inc.
  • Realizing The Meaning of Volunteering

    Two FLEX Program Alumni members participating in Global Youth Service Day 2010 in Yerevan, Armenia. Elena Sorokina is currently the GYSD Assistant at the American Councils for International Education Eurasia FLEX Alumni Program in Moscow,...
  • DC Students Prepare for Earth Day

    New & Alumni Students completed a variety of projects and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens & Ft Dupont National Park. My name is Alexus March, I am 16, in the 11th grade and I have just begun my 2nd year as a member of Student...
  • Growing a Dream with Friends for Change

    Katie and volunteers at her 2010 Global Youth Service Day project; she received a YSA Disney Friends for Change grant to help fund her project. Katie Stagliano founded Katie’s Krops when she was 9 years-old. Katie's Krops is an organization...

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