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"Actions in Spotlight has encouraged me to learn more about why these inequalities exist and how society can resolve them through the implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals."
"Actions encourages other young people to learn more and speak out for the causes they support; our voices will be heard."
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
May 2019
When I was little, my teachers taught my peers and me skills like adding and subtracting, reading and writing. They also taught us other skills like sharing with each other, talking about our problems, and negotiating solutions. These are basic principles...
By Georgia Bernbaum
May 2019
Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals
To achieve all 16 goals, the United Nations put forth the 17th goal which encourages collaboration between public and private sector to achieve the goals.Schools, public or private, play an important role to help achieve this 17th goal. They should prepare the future...
By Grace Muresan
Our Creative Response to the 14th Goal:
Life Below Water
Fiction in response to Life Below Water
Feb 2019
The first time you went to the beach was the first time your mind really went blank. Not in a scary or sad or science-fiction kind of way, just that the crash of the tide rumbled so insistent that there was no room for anything else. No matter how long you stared the..
By Ilana Arougheti
Poem in response to Life Below Water
Feb 2019
Seagrass
covers undulating fields, whisper-soft green
Small fish
Streak, tiny orange comets in a vast ocean
By Caroline Sun
Feb 2019
Poem in response to Life Below Water
A plastic bottle
Left carelessly on the beach
Drifts across oceans
Choking a seabird
By Amrita Bhasin
Feb 2019
Nonfiction in response to Life Below Water
7 cities. 4 countries. 4 continents. 7 problems. And 1 world, from 11 year old perspective. Through my travels, I learned a lot about the different places and how, even though they all have their unique climates, cultures, people, and water sources, their water and...
By Grace Muresan
Feb 2019
Fiction in response to Life Below Water
A splash of salty droplets mist against my face as the ocean waves gently crash against our boat. The black rubber of my wetsuit compresses my body, and the heavy oxygen tank weighs down my back as I sit waiting for our scuba guide to finish his basic...
By Kelsey Cashman
Feb 2019
Fiction in response to Life Below Water
It started out as a regular day, just as all others, little out of the ordinary other than the news about “Hurricane Micheal” and the heavy rain outside. Suddenly, though, while I was in the gym suffering through PE, all the lights went out and immediately kids...
By Grace Muresan
Feb 2019
Fiction in response to Life Below Water
Dear humans,
I would say it's not you it is me, but it is not. No matter how much I do for you, you never seem to notice. You depend on me for everything, and yet I get nothing in return. In fact, over 3 billion...
By Georgia Bernbaum
Feb 2019
Nonfiction in response to Life Below Water
In the recent superhero movie Aquaman, the main villain throws all the trash in the ocean back to land in a titanic tsunami wave. Unfortunately for the fictional beaches, just the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is double the size of Texas. Unfortunately for us...