Your Voice. Your Choice. Our World.
Students have the power to change the world right now.
Students Rebuild inspires young people to engage with our world’s most pressing issues and channel their creativity through various artistic mediums to create meaningful change.
2025: Spark Peace Project
This year, we’re inviting youth around the globe to join us on a journey to build a more peaceful world. Through creative action, students can explore their understanding of peace, identify its barriers, and share their vision for a more compassionate, peaceful, and inclusive society.
How it works
Students will engage in a simple yet powerful process to make a difference.
Learn
Explore resources like lesson plans, art guides, and videos that enhance student learning about peace and compassion.
Create
Encourage students to express their ideas about the current project through their choice of literary, media, performing and visual arts, or STEM.
Share
Submit students’ creative works to Students Rebuild. Each submission or student engaged raises $5 to support peacebuilding organizations, up to $1 million.
Creativity in action
Acivity at Groupe Scolaire Kitabura – Musanze District
Team
Green Horizon Ventures
Reflection
Green Horizon Ventures collaborated with the Art for Change organization for an activity held in Musanze, located in the Northern Province of Rwanda. A total of 150 students, aged 9 to 12, participated in various activities, including creating peace collages, drawing, writing poetry, and singing. The students expressed their interpretations of peace both in written and oral forms, which enhanced their artistic creations. During the presentations of their peace-themed work, six groups of 25 students each engaged the entire school, which consists of approximately 2,500 students. The event took place at Groupe Scolaire Kitabura in Musanze District
Arts activity type
Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Friendship Fortune Cookies
Team
CFMS
Reflection
Students created origami fortune cookies that contained messages of kindness, peace, and inspiration. The fortune cookies were then shared with other students or hidden throughout the school.
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
1,001+ Cranes for Oeace (SadakaPeaceProject)
Team
Arcadia Peace Project
Reflection
Students in grades 5-8 read aloud Sadako’s story and created 1,001 (+) cranes to make our wish for world peace to come true:)!
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
Sunspiration!
Team
Partners for Peace
Reflection
The sun has been a powerful source of energy and light that people have respected and celebrated for thousands of years. It symbolizes warmth, hope, optimism, and peace – even on cloudy days! The sun can inspire, motivate and uplift us by reminding us of its beauty and wonder. The sun is a brilliant beacon of hope and peace, guiding us toward a brighter tomorrow.
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
Hands Up for Peace
Team
Partners for Peace
Reflection
This project is based off The Hands Up Project, which connects children around the world with young people in Palestine. Through online interaction, art, drama and storytelling activities, it enables the use of creativity and self-expression to promote mutual understanding, personal growth, and peace. Ask yourself what kind of world we live in the responsibility we have to make it better.
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
Calm Coastal Creations: The Sky’s the Limit
Team
Let’s go for the Gold and Achieve Peace
Reflection
Students were given a seashell to design to display what they do for self care, their happy place, or a positive phrase to encourage others! The shells are displayed in the shape of a peace sign to show although we all may do something different for self care and mental health, we all still collectively want peace. Before we can achieve world peace we need to find our own inner peace. What are you waiting for to find your inner peace? Remember that “The Sky’s the Limit!”
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
Sketchbooks
Team
Voorheesville Cares
Reflection
sketchbook works
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
Affirmation Wall
Team
John Marshall High School Bears
Reflection
Youth made an affirmation wall for kindness to bridge cultures and create an atmosphere of peace.
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
Soothing Socks
Team
John Marshall High School Bears
Reflection
Youth made encouragement cards and packaged new socks.
Arts activity type
Visual Arts
How Students Rebuild Works
Explore a global issue
Each Students Rebuild Project gives students the opportunity to explore an important global issue.
Last year, students learned how to take care of our Extraordinary Earth. This year, they will explore the themes of peace and compassion through the Spark Peace Project.
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Make a work of creative expression
Since 2010, hundreds of thousands of students have used what they learned to create 7 million works of creative expression around global issues.
Students submitted 166K creative pieces during the Extraordinary Earth Project.
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Activate a donation
For each creative expression received, or student engaged, Creative Visions donates funds to support organizations making a difference around the world.
During the Extraordinary Earth Project, we collaborated with five organizations with a proven track record of addressing critical needs and impacting local and global climate change.
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Insights from participants
- Student
- teacher
- principal
“Through Students Rebuild and different classes at our school, I’ve been able to expand my mind and know more about the world in general. Also, it’s sparked interest in what I want to pursue for the rest of my life.”
“I love how Students Rebuild allows my students to connect to not only students within their own community but to students in other countries across the globe. They loved that they could be a part of that.”
“I believe projects like this bridge the gap and make our global community that much smaller. You’re motivated to think about other people and see what you can do to improve a situation not just at home but somewhere else.”
Frequently asked questions
Read the list below for answers to common questions about Students Rebuild and our Projects. Have a question that’s not featured in this list? Email us at [email protected]!
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Is there an active Students Rebuild Project right now?
Yes! The Spark Peace Project, which kicked off in the fall of 2024, will run until the summer of 2025. Students can participate by creating a project that reflects their ideas about peace and compassion and submitting it through our website.
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What’s the dollar match for each piece of creative expression submitted or each student who participates?
For every piece of creative expression or youth engaged, we make a $5 donation to our Impact Partners. Since 2010, more than $12.5 million has been raised, benefiting over 450,000 youth around the world. To incentivize youth to go deeper with projects that may take more time or effort, Creative Visions will trigger a $5 donation for each student who participates.
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Where does the donated money come from?
The way it works is simple: our annual Projects invite students to respond to a specific problem affecting young people. Teachers and students explore the issue in class, create art based on their learnings, and send it to us. For every piece of art submitted, we make a financial donation to organizations making a difference in the space.
We ask them to make an impact by creating expressions that reflect their care and concern, and Creative Visions, with the generous support of the Bezos Family Foundation, donates based on those submissions. This approach ensures that youth from all backgrounds and countries can contribute to solving critical global issues.
