What we can learn from a child? Everything! I spent one day judging high school students who researched the industrial impacts on planet and people in under-developed parts of the world.
Students are supported by an industry advisory board who funds and staffs the two regional events.
The program has a parent, teacher and works with students from 5th grade to high school graduation ensuring and advocating for university requirements with students who have no way to know or get into the right courses.
Our future leaders in general have such potential to restore our ecosystem. The only thing missing in today's contestants "having the knowledge that the very things they described result from a break down in the systems.
Climate change
http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=610&vt=spacetree&dc=focus
Planet under pressure
http://debategraph.org/planet
London agenda on cyberspace
http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspxnid=121532&vt=spacetree&dc=focus
Prosperity without growth
http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=32883&vt=spacetree&dc=focu
Thank you to all the students who allowed me to judge their wonderful speeches. It was a crash course in the work for Systems Thinking World UN-for the greater good.
