Youth Climate Summit

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Youth Climate Summit

Redesigning Educational Models To
Map To Global Sustainability

Introducing the new EmpowerED Program

 

 

 

 

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WSS Youth Climate Summit

Redesigning Educational Models To Map To Global Sustainability

Introducing the new EmpowerED Program

Amidst a climate crisis, technological disruption, evolving work landscapes and eroding institutional trust, current educational models are inadequate in preparing individuals of all ages to navigate these changing times. This highlights the urgent need for a profound redesigning of educational models to map to sustainable global systems. We invite you to this rolling workshop series that works together to proactively address the demands of our swiftly evolving world.

Join the Summit September 23,
9am - 4pm PT

This all-day Zoom event is an opportunity for youth, youth organizations, curriculum developers, climate experts and government officials to come together to redesign education and collaborate on an approach that steers humanity in a more sustainable direction.

REGISTER

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image of youth zoom meeting

Join the Summit September 23,
9am - 4pm PT

This all-day Zoom event is an opportunity for youth, youth organizations, curriculum developers, climate experts and government officials to come together to redesign education and collaborate on an approach that steers humanity in a more sustainable direction.

In This Summit,
We Will …

  • Hear youth’s unvarnished perspectives and innovative ideas about transforming education
  • Create a space for youth to collaborate on meaningful redesigns of education
  • Address how the loneliness crisis and lack of trust models prevents and impacts youth’s ability to proactively solve the climate crisis
  • Address the importance of preparation for a rapidly changing world
  • Collaborate on effecting curriculum changes in the time necessary
  • Learn how the Phoenix Platform can amplify youth voices and support their intentions while providing opportunities to be a part of climate solutions and free education

SUMMIT GOALS

  • 1

    Discover pathways to empower youth, women and underrepresented groups by redesigning the educational system from the ground up.

  • 2

    Examine the impact of AI on current and future education, considering its alignment with addressing the climate crisis, while also exploring the potential utilization of AI and technology tools for the near-term redesign of the educational system.

  • 3

    Explore how the educational system can be transformed to result in green jobs creation and venues for application of the necessarily acquired skills.

  • 4

    Determine the requirements and preferences of young adults so that AI systems and global education designs can map to their preferences, ideas and statements so that the world they live in is intentional and one they are supported in creating.

  • 5

    Establish and develop an ongoing educational environment and workshop model and strategy that fosters ongoing youth collaboration to magnify their efforts in climate crisis resolution. Workshops will enable collaboration on transforming the existing educational systems and empowering youth to affect their intentions and capacities driving essential global change.

  • 6

    Create a space for educational experts to be in collaborative conversation with all young people, and especially marginalized and diverse young people to optimally align their efforts and understandings in order to improve educational offerings and assuredly meet the rapidly changing educational needs of the world's young people in order to empower them to collectively build a new and sustainable future.

  1. Inclusivity – no matter who you are, where you come from, what you look like or what you identify as, we must all have an adequate seat at the table in terms of educational opportunities and participation in solving the climate crisis.
  2. Shifting away from the mindset of prioritizing profit over the well-being of the world.
  3. How we can inspire green jobs and opportunities that support a sustainable future.
  4. The role education plays in society and how it ripples out to affect our world.
  5. Whole systems thinking and application of education to synchronize currently fragmented understandings and shift them into a more comprehensive approach.
  6. AI’s application in every phase of education.
  7. Collaboratively arrive at shared understandings and models that reveal and resolve current blind spots in understandings of the climate crisis.
POTENTIAL DISCUSSION TOPICS

WE NO LONGER LIVE IN THE WORLD OF THE 1950'S

Hence, transforming education to meet the demands that young people will experience must rapidly occur. Education is one of the most powerful tools we have to empower the next generations.

The summit will feature youth from around the world, exploring the necessity of global approaches to unity and solutions to long term challenges given today's reality.

REGISTER NOW

Leading up to this Summit, we partnered with Youth Climate Action Team to learn what is most important to youth in education. In these conversations, we learned that:

Youth want to be met with a higher level of sophistication. They want to be empowered to learn about the crises that are occurring, even though many adults think they are too young to understand.

Youth want climate curriculum integrated into their educational experience and to be empowered to work with and uplift others in the divided world we now share.

Students are frustrated at spending the first twenty years of their lives in a system that maintains the status quo, rather than one that can empower and support them in creating a world and future that works.

Youth recognize that the traditional strategy of getting good grades and going to college will no longer guarantee the bright future and that a new approach, one that addresses the current reality is now required.

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The threats posed by climate change to food, water and other resources, combined with the emergence of the automation era and AI, present children of the future with hugely different realities to navigate. Join the WSS Youth Climate Summit to weigh in on these pressing issues and collaborate globally with a community dedicated to solving the climate crisis in the time necessary!

SPEAKER INFO

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Rajesh Nair's nine years of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Asia School of Business have shown that we could nurture ordinary youth and children to take on innovation and entrepreneurship by building their skillset and mindset and creating ecosystems in their community.

The entrepreneurs he's met, who grew up in under-resourced communities where opportunities were slim but found their inner potential and drive to break out to find their calling inspired this research.

Over thirty years of his career, Rajesh has been an engineer, designer, entrepreneur and educator. He feels very fortunate to have gone through such broad experiences in technology, business and education. His current mission is to use this experience to nurture future innovators and entrepreneurs from the youth in remote and underserved communities by transforming them and, in turn, their communities.

Rajesh served as a Professor of Practice in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Asia School of Business, started by MIT-Sloan in Kuala Lumpur. He was one of the founding faculty of ASB and also served at MIT as a Visiting Scholar and Tata Fellow.

Over the past nine years, Rajesh's study on how entrepreneurship skillset and mindset can be developed in youth has helped me create programs to nurture future innovators and entrepreneurs in communities from the ground up and conduct over a hundred workshops worldwide

The companies Rajesh founded were in varied fields such as Thermal engineering of electronic products, Data Center energy optimization, sensing airflow for environmental management & instruments, Consumer products, and Training in creativity and problem-solving.

Rajesh received Master's degrees in Engineering & Management, Manufacturing Engineering (UMass, Amherst) and Electronic Product Design (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore). He holds a Bachelor's degrees in Electronics & Communications Engineering (IISc) and Physics (Kerala).

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Rajesh Nair,
Founder, CEO, EnCube Labs
9:40am PT / 12:40pm ET

Michael Robbins is the Co-Founder of Learning Pathmakers in Washington D.C. where he is championing a democratized learning ecosystem leading to representative digital governance. Helping teens take charge of learning, data, and AI.

Beyond that, Michael kickstarted District of Learning in 2015 with MacArthur Foundation, fostering a tech-powered learning ecosystem in DC. Evolved it into Learning Pathmakers with Cecily Darden during the pandemic - charting a brighter future for learning and our digital society.

He has 30+ years as a social entrepreneur, from grassroots to the White House. He's helped steer community engagement and digital ed transformation under President Obama. Collaborated with a spectrum of leaders: mayors, educators and corporate execs.

Michael wrote his first computer program in 6th grade on a TRS-80 Model 12 - to create Dungeons & Dragons characters! Level 53 Paladin, human, light armor, neural good. He's been online before the web was a thing.

Michael was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of a fighter pilot-engineer and a creative artist. College had me at Apple & SAIC.

He is a Moth StorySlam winner & speaker at venues like National PTA & SXSW.

Michael holds a Liberal Arts degree with a focus on global peace. Dual Master's degrees accenting cross-sector leadership and social entrepreneurship. Recent studies in AI & public theology.

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Michael Robbins,
Co-Founder, Learning Pathmakers
10:55am PT / 1:55pm ET

Dr. Malika Virah-Sawmy holds a PhD in human-nature conflict from the University of Oxford and has established herself as a global sustainability practitioner and systems scientist. As the Co-Founder of the Sensemakers Collective, she has dedicated the past two decades to sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation, and natural resource management, with impactful work spanning the globe.

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Dr. Malika Virah-Sawmy,
Co-Founder, Sensemakers Collective
1:00pm PT / 4:00pm ET

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF), an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.  

Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont.  He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.

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Nate Hagens,
Director, ISEOF
2:15pm PT / 5:15pm ET

ALL VOICES MATTER!

Send us some ideas on how to redesign education and we will be compile and work on them before and during the summit.

CO-CREATING THE PHOENIX WORLD TRANSFORMATION PLATFORM™

A collaboration and education technology infrastructure is being designed by World Systems Solutions to bring individuals, organizations and nations into a functionally aligned union to give people, organizations and government institutions a way to collaborate quickly and proactively to solve the most pressing environmental issues.

A collaboration and education technology infrastructure is being designed by World Systems Solutions to bring individuals, organizations and nations into a functionally aligned union to give people, organizations and government institutions a way to collaborate quickly and proactively to solve the most pressing environmental issues.

TESTIMONY

"The summit for me was such a revival and heart-warming session. I met Rajesh, who shared his work with regard to fighting climate. The whole discourse was such a beautiful container for me, filled with information and understanding of the systems governing us, versus the disconnect of what the imminent and most important urge for the future is."

Fiston M.

Youth Climate Summit attendee
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