HIVE Youth Ambassadors Finale

HIVE Youth Ambassadors have worked long and hard this summer on creating a tool kit for future youth councils. To showcase our work we are inviting YOU to join us in presenting our tool kit!

Mikva Challenge Meets HIVE Chicago

Mikva Challenge (@MikvaChallenge) youth met yesterday with the HIVE Chicago youth to discuss how to make ASM programs better. The discussion was led by the youth of Mikva Challenge with questions like "How do your instructors make your program not feel like school?" or "Do you think the programs you have been involved in challenge you?". 

Quote Of The Day

VIDEO: Youth Voice

PSA Chicago Hive from HIVE Chicago on Vimeo.

Hive PSA from HIVE Chicago on Vimeo.

How strong is your voice? By Hollie Davis

How strong is your voice?

The most powerful decision teenagers make is in determining what college they go to. Which is ironic because teenagers often feel disenfranchised and are discredited with authority figures. When we pick our colleges we make choices about our financial future, our safety, our health, our mental stability, our social lives, and our academics for the next four years at least. According to Bloomberg-Businessweek your college selection can have dramatic implications in earning potential they write “Top earners with Yale degrees typically earned $326,000 a year compared with the best-paid graduates of, say, Kent State University, a respectable public university in Ohio, who earned $124,000, on average.” The case in pretty well laid out for the economic benefits of college people with college degrees the unemployment rate is 2.4% according to the labor department and have a lower risk of credit card, medical, or even student loan bankruptcy.

Youth Voice interview by Robbie Lewis

My Experience

A time when I felt most empowered and valued is when I went on an expedition with Project Exploration- All Girls Expedition. This expedition lasted for 2 weeks- one week in Chicago and the second week in Montana- and it wasn’t like a camping expedition it was more of an outdoor adventure in Yellowstone National Park. It was a diverse group of girls and we couldn’t have any technology whatsoever with us while we were on the field. It gave us more time to connect and bond with each other over the course of that week which really paid off since we all still keep in touch.

Peer Interviews

To get a better understanding of what youth look forward to in a program or what they expect, I asked the girls that are currently enrolled in the All Girls Expedition—which was the program I did last summer--program the following questions:

    What do you look for in a program?

    What activities do you like to do?

    Does money matter?