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Foster critical thinking. Empower hope.
Strengthen society.
Teachers and educators face several challenges when it comes to climate education and empowering students: from navigating the complexity of the topic, to balancing curriculum demands, to finding ways to make students concerned with their futures feel empowered and uplifted.
Empowering students to take meaningful action on climate change requires more than just imparting knowledge; it involves fostering critical thinking skills, creativity, and a sense of agency. Educators may struggle to find effective strategies for engaging students in hands-on projects and advocacy efforts.
The Hive Initiative’s Mini Climate Summit makes it easy to address these challenges. It brings students together in real time to learn science-based facts and then gives them a forum to collaborate on solutions. With ideas captured and implemented, students flex their critical thinking and creativity skills and are made a stakeholder in their school.
The result: more young minds that help make our world more active, enabled and empowered, which in turn makes society more educated and resilient.
Mini Climate Summit Types
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Student Collaboration
Our classic 90 minute Summit for up to 50 participants, which can be repeated with varied topics.
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Information Assembly
An interactive event that brings minds together to understand a sustainability topic. Perfect for meetings with many attendees.
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Educator Forum
A safe space for directors and educators to explore sustainability topics, understand risks and create solutions.
Topics
We will work with you to determine the topic for each Mini Climate Summit, which can either be a broad introductory overview or more specific, which will allow for deeper understanding and more actionable results. Below are a list of possible topics:
by Challenge
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Pollution
Risk
Resource Scarcity
Inequality
Fraud + Greenwashing
by Solution
Wellbeing Economy
by Industry
Energy
Fashion
Food
Finance
IT
Transportation
Bonus:
ImplementationFramework
The framework provides an easy-to-follow structure that makes it simple to take workshop results and make them a reality with climate sprints.
The framework is given as a free bonus with the Mini Climate Summit.
Advantages
Why add Mini Climate Summits to your existing curriculum? To simplify your efforts.
Brings an unbiased perspective and shares best practices from others we work with
Conveys the latest data and insights from the scientific community, bringing everyone up to date
Promotes collaboration and creativity, encourages innovative solutions to uplift and give hope
Helps measure impact and record improvements, making progress seen and understood
Is interactive, collaborative and uplifting and makes all participants valued stakeholders
Tailored to You
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Perhaps you have a Sustainability Week coming up and want to both have a presentation at a large meeting as well as a workshop with interested participants.
Or, maybe you need a recurring program to repeat with students.
Or a yearly meeting for new educators to work through sustainability topics that affect the school.
We tailor your Mini Climate Summit package to fit your needs, as well as customise the content to coordinate with your location.
We will be happy to give you a tour of the Mini Climate Summit and its possibilities for scaling education and empowerment at your school. Just fill out the form and we will be in contact with you within 1-2 work days.
