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Action plans created by local ninth graders during Teen Symposium 2005


Neenah High School: Unity: Lots of Students, One School, a project that helps break down barriers between cliques

Hortonville High School: Tutoring for younger students; sponsoring a children's T-ball team; organizing intramural sports for high school students who don't get a chance to play on athletic teams

Kaukauna High School: Under a Wing, an initiative that will pair high school sophomores, juniors and seniors with Kaukauna at-risk middle school students

Winneconne High School: Participating in Sponsor a Siberian Youth (providing funds for gas masks in Appleton's sister city region of Shchuchye, Russia)

Appleton West High School: Terrors Help, a student chapter of Habitat for Humanity

Appleton East High School: Battle of the Bands: Music for a Cause, with proceeds going to causes including local hospitals, military families and Sponsor a Siberian Youth

Appleton North High School: Every 15 Minutes, an awareness day during which students who are randomly selected every 15 minutes as "victims" of alcohol- or drug-related casualties will go without speaking. The day will end with an assembly.

Shiocton High School: Adopt-a-Highway to clean up Shiocton

Kimberly High School: Kimberly Helping the Future, a program to orient elementary-schoolers with middle school and middle-schoolers with high school; Kimberly Helping Services, a phone line for community members to request help from teens with odd jobs (i.e. shoveling, raking, painting, lawnmowing)

Oshkosh West High School: Project Awareness, to promote volunteer opportunities for teens

Menasha High School: Operation Community Involvement, establishing an after-school site for studying, hanging out and volunteering; Extreme Study Hall Makeover, creating a more useful and comfortable study hall environment for students

Xavier High School: A project to collect needed supplies for children in a hurting U.S. community, with a corresponding summer service trip to follow

Source: Teen Symposium 2005