HSAOP goals: Anjana Puri

HSAOP had a meeting today in which we planned the budget breakdown for the CAC funding application. We want to expand HSAOP. We want to keep teaching students with the four week class, but we also want to offer a one hour presentation to be given to assemblies. we feel that teachers would be more willing to take an hour out of their lesson plan, rather than four days. This presentation is going to be similar to the presentation we gave at irvine high school. So we now have two options to offer the schools. we plan to go to two schools a quarter, every quarter. We want to offer two more programs to students:

1.) A Youth Human Rights Conference: at the end of spring quarter we want to hold a Human Rights Conference on campus. This conference is going to be open to any of the students who we have taught. we want to hold it on-campus, maybe in Kerkoff. The conference is going to be a 2 day (5 hours a day) event that will most probably take place over a weekend. It will start at 10am and end at 3 pm. Registration begins at 915. We made a tentative schedule.

Saturday: An interactive workshop that focuses on conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, N. Uganda, Burma, Somalia, etc) will be given to them. (2 hours)
Lunch (1 hour)
A film or documentary will be screened(2 hours)

Sunday: A "Take Action" workshop focus sing on lobbying, letter writing campaigns, and working with NGOs and NPOs will be given to the students. An interactive game will be played similar to the role playing game that we played at the GROW convention. After that we will have a guest speaker come and talk to the students. (Right now we are thinking of having the LOST BOYS of SUDAN and John Prendergast to come. I will ask John to invite Don Cheadle to speak. I think that if we can have a celebrity activist as a guest speaker many more students would come.

We will provide lunch for the students in the form of pizza and soda.

2.) A possible lobbying trip to DC: We want to take 3 students with us on the Lobbying Trip to DC that the DAC plans to make. in order for the student to go, they will have to write an essay and complete an application. Once all the essays/applications are turned in, HSAOP will go over them, and decide who the lucky three students will be.

Well let me know what you think about our new ideas. thanks! -anjana