Chartiers Valley eNewsletter:
Article on Luminari award winner Nick May
Chartiers Valley Patch
CV student wins Ambassador Award
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Four area high school students named Luminari Award Scholars
Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto
The Luminari Award: Merit-based scholarship for area students
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh non-profit seeking applicants for new merit-based scholarship program
Saturday LIght Brigade
Meet students in the midst of I Want to be an Ambassador!
Upper St. Clair Patch
Camp has teens talking diplomacy with top execs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Youngsters go to camp to learn diplomacy skills
Pop City
No bug spray, Kool-Aid or sleeping bags, but how about some protocol? Try 'Ambassador' camp
Canon-McMillan Patch
Students: Spots Still Available at Ambassador Program
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
High school senior passes diplomacy lessons to youths.
Pitt Magazine
Emerging Ambassadors
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pitt camp aiming to instill diplomatic skills in students.
Pop City
LET THERE BE LIGHT: New nonprofit Luminari launches in Pittsburgh.
I Want To Be An Ambassador! Camp
Dates: June 21 - June 29, 2011
Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm (excluding weekends)
Location: Senator John Heinz History Center - Pittsburgh, PA and Washington, DC
Duration: 7 Days
Target Audience: Rising 8th to 12th grade students
Tuition: Camp Concluded.
Thanks to new technology, the world is becoming a smaller place... and yet, with all the ways we can communicate, conflict and power struggles continue to escalate. How can we prepare our young people to come together, get along and work to solve the world's problems? By teaching the skills of an Ambassador!
The camp launched its pilot in June 2010 with huge success. Certainly this camp will enrich any student interested in learning about jobs in Foreign Service – but the I Want to be an Ambassador! camp is so much more, with invaluable lessons for all teens! It is the only camp of its kind in Western Pennsylvania, making it a unique and significant offering to help youth develop the life skills crucial to success. Just as an Ambassador must display behaviors and attitudes that respectfully represent our country and solve world challenges, campers will learn to respectfully represent their families, schools, and communities—and start solving problems effectively at a grass-roots level.
CURRICULUM
Camp curriculum has been carefully developed with expert input from professional educators and topic specialists to provide campers with broadened minds, the ability to problem-solve by evaluating data and considering multiple viewpoints, and the inspiration to engage in more diverse activities and academic pursuits. Each day includes a cultural spotlight on a different part of the world and an introduction to a different foreign language. This innovative 7-day camp is geared to explore themes of successful interaction and interdependence, which hopefully inspires a "ripple effect" of change around them!
HIGHLIGHTS
If we could see different perspectives, if we could whet our taste for the distinctive flavors of world cultures, if we could hear the problems of the world through the ears of many different people... then perhaps we can be ambassadors to a different kind of interaction that leads to peace and progress. The I Want to be an Ambassador! camp is a vital first step for students ready to reach for those inspiring goals.
The world is the limit!
WHO'S WHO AT THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Carlos Cardoso, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kennametal, Inc.
Bill Lambert, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mine Safety Appliances
Lani Lazzari, President and Founder, Simple Sugars
Charlie Petredis, Managing Director - Investments, Wells Fargo
AMBASSADORS MEETING WITH OUR STUDENTS
Ambassador Chan Heng Chee, Singapore's Ambassador to the United States
André Dunham Maciel S. de Castro, Head of the Cultural Sector of the Brazilian Embassy to the United States
.... And other guest speakers while in Washington, DC
Stay up to date with our programs and Get Inspired!
Enter your email to receive updates about this program.
SUPPORT TO THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED BY THE GRABLE FOUNDATION, THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS, THE PRESIDENT'S DISCRETIONARY FUND OF THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION, THE RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION, BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN, PNC AND UPMC.