The overall impact of GCA can be measured in both quantitative and qualitative ways. During the last 4 years, more than 6000 students from 50 countries registered, a figure which illustrates the popularity achieved by the program. GCA has also made grants of about $200,000 to these students in the form of college scholarships and training opportunities. These personal gains have been important to students, who continuously benefit from their GCA experience.
Using technology, GCA is helping children to become change agents for a better future. Youth gain skills that help them aspire to careers in international affairs, the green economy and entrepreneurship. Importantly, 85% of GCA students have shown continued commitment to global and climate issues after completing a GCA program. This impact on their awareness of climate change is multiplied by their concrete actions that are mitigating and addressing climate change effects around the world.
GCA's team-based experiences improve a student's confidence for solving local as well as global problems. Students learn to think outside-the-box and see that their creative global warming solutions can move from idea to reality. Students learn to work in cooperative teams, how to coordinate with each other and how to communicate.
Global Challenge thus has a three-fold impact on students: increasing climate change awareness and action, resulting in personal gains and gaining experience in global virtual teamwork.
Participating in GCA provides youth with many keys to success while engaging them in creative thinking and action for a Greener world.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Where Students Come From?
Dear everyone, we’ve written several times about the Global Challenge Award program and how it works. The name itself suggests that students are involved from all over the globe. We’ve had tremendous response from students who are full of enthusiasm and potential. Students in GCA work together to achieve socially responsible goals that they set for themselves!
Global Challenge Award believes that with the advent of 21st century technology youth are increasingly driving change around the globe. GCA uses the Internet, learning networks, and a fast growing web of educational connections to attract students to its annual competitions. Thousands have participated since the GCA’s inception in 2005.
From 2006 up to 2008 we had a continuously increasing response from all over the globe. The numbers tell a success story about the GCA Program. Tell someone you know about GCA today and help save the world!
Students roll up your sleeves and start immediately. Enroll for tomorrow’s green world. Success is just a step ahead.
Contribute,
Communicate
Co-ordinate
Global Challenge Award believes that with the advent of 21st century technology youth are increasingly driving change around the globe. GCA uses the Internet, learning networks, and a fast growing web of educational connections to attract students to its annual competitions. Thousands have participated since the GCA’s inception in 2005.
From 2006 up to 2008 we had a continuously increasing response from all over the globe. The numbers tell a success story about the GCA Program. Tell someone you know about GCA today and help save the world!
Students roll up your sleeves and start immediately. Enroll for tomorrow’s green world. Success is just a step ahead.
Contribute,
Communicate
Co-ordinate
Monday, September 7, 2009
Global Challenge Award( http://members.globalchallengeaward.org/)
Climate Change is expected to increase the severity and frequency of natural hazards like storms, floods and draughts.
Young people really matter since they are going to be our future leaders. They will create tomorrow’s solutions. Students can be the driving force behind many of sustainability efforts.
Why don’t we use the creative power of students by encouraging their energy, skills, and enthusiasm to solve global climate change issues? Introducing the Global Challenge Award!
GCA is a World Wide Web activity combining traditional and Web 2.0 telecommunications to support small 4 students teams. Students are guided in the use of computational science tools to create innovative collaborative solutions to global warming.
Over 400 students have engaged in GCA. The beauty of program lies in its ability to attract a very diverse group of participants by gender, ethnicity, socioeconomics, student interests and rural/urban environments.
GCA A Role Model for your future projects. How?
Ø High school Students or age group 13 to 18
Ø Registration is open year around, with fees of $25 (or equivalent currency) for a whole year of activity!
Ø A student forms team of two (an optional adult can be invited by the student)
Ø Join team from another country to form a 4 –person global team.
Ø Mentor (who is former GCA participant) will guide the team throughout the project.
The GCA Program has been awarded by foundations and corporations, and its impacts on students are highly prized and well documented. Parents and schools can readily see the relationship to important valued outcomes of education.
Benefits to students include:
· You Dream it, GCA will help you to achieve it.
· Turn your ideas into Reality.
· Global teamwork increases your Cooperation, Communication, Coordination skills while building awareness and knowledge about climate change.
· Projects help you develop sound knowledge of mathematics, science, technology and engineering.
· Students develop and apply scientific research skills to design a technically feasible solution.
· GCA awards certificates, letters of recommendation, prizes and many more benefits,
Join and experience essence of one and only one famous GCA Program,
Register Today?
NO…
Register On the Spot
http://members.globalchallengeaward.org/
Young people really matter since they are going to be our future leaders. They will create tomorrow’s solutions. Students can be the driving force behind many of sustainability efforts.
Why don’t we use the creative power of students by encouraging their energy, skills, and enthusiasm to solve global climate change issues? Introducing the Global Challenge Award!
GCA is a World Wide Web activity combining traditional and Web 2.0 telecommunications to support small 4 students teams. Students are guided in the use of computational science tools to create innovative collaborative solutions to global warming.
Over 400 students have engaged in GCA. The beauty of program lies in its ability to attract a very diverse group of participants by gender, ethnicity, socioeconomics, student interests and rural/urban environments.
GCA A Role Model for your future projects. How?
Ø High school Students or age group 13 to 18
Ø Registration is open year around, with fees of $25 (or equivalent currency) for a whole year of activity!
Ø A student forms team of two (an optional adult can be invited by the student)
Ø Join team from another country to form a 4 –person global team.
Ø Mentor (who is former GCA participant) will guide the team throughout the project.
The GCA Program has been awarded by foundations and corporations, and its impacts on students are highly prized and well documented. Parents and schools can readily see the relationship to important valued outcomes of education.
Benefits to students include:
· You Dream it, GCA will help you to achieve it.
· Turn your ideas into Reality.
· Global teamwork increases your Cooperation, Communication, Coordination skills while building awareness and knowledge about climate change.
· Projects help you develop sound knowledge of mathematics, science, technology and engineering.
· Students develop and apply scientific research skills to design a technically feasible solution.
· GCA awards certificates, letters of recommendation, prizes and many more benefits,
Join and experience essence of one and only one famous GCA Program,
Register Today?
NO…
Register On the Spot
http://members.globalchallengeaward.org/
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