Alycia Gideon, pictured at right, a freshman at High School North who has organized and run Teen Zones at Community Middle School in the past, has now coordinated the activity evenings with middle school students and the high school’s STAND Club.##M:[more]##
The next Teen Zone will be Friday, February 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $3 at the door. Activities include American Idol, basketball, a raffle, video games, ping-pong, and board games.
Teen Zone is a place where students can go and hang out with friends, while engaging in a number of activities. These include an “American Idol” competition, video games, a basketball shoot-off, ping-pong, and board games. Students may also enter raffles and purchase pizza and other snacks at the concession stand.
STAND Club, an after school club founded in 2004, originally STAND: Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, but shortened to STAND to encompass genocide in any country. Project Citizen, a project of Eileen Chubik-Kwis, a social studies teacher at North, also encourages the students to get involved, and by partnering up with STAND, has opened up many of their eyes to the genocide going on in Darfur, Sudan.
When all of the proceeds from Teen Zone are added up, 50 percent goes to STAND, who send it to Doctors Without Borders, and 50 percent goes to Project Citizen.
“Project Citizen is about realizing what you can do to help out your community, state, or even country,” says Adita Vesai, another student in Chubik-Kwis’s class. It is about realizing that just because you are children, it does not mean you cannot improve the way you live. It just takes one person to change the world.”
