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.
The next project will be live in late August.
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
Words of Peace
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Words developed with colored backgrounds convey specific ideas of importance that students were looking to share out.
Human peace signs
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Brumfield Elementary
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K-5 library classes each created a human peace sign on their last day of school.
Arts activity
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Team Coventry
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These are all visual arts projects
graffiti alley peace project
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Patterson for peace project
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Students made stencils to use at our local graffiti alley where it is legal to spay paint graffiti. We took 2 groups of students to do the artwork.
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Clase de español de la Profe Figueroa
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My Spanish 3 students created diverse expressions of art to send a message of peace. Some students submit musical pieces since music brings peace, others create visual arts to express their emotions. A few students wrote poems in Spanish. One submission is a video of the bus ride home because looking out of the window to the nature we have in our area brings the student peace.
Peace Poetry
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Greenwich Academy
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The girls wrote peace poems in the shape of a peace sign.
Fingerprint Doves
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Slum Film Festival
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At each of our screenings, we bring a line drawing of a dove on a piece of rough fabric. After a film and a conversation about peace, and discussion of the dove as a symbol, each young person is invited to use their finger or thumb — and its unique print — to place an imprint inside the dove, creating a one-of-a-kind, colorful, collective symbol of their group’s commitment to PEACE.
NAHS personal peace expression
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Irish NAHS
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Students were asked to create a work of art that could literally or symbolically show what peace means to them, or an activity that brings them peace.
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Children-Led Community Peace Labs
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Our submission features children from the Children-Led Community Peace Labs program under Re-Imagining New Communities engaging in a peace-themed art activity. They colored images of the peace hand symbol to express unity, harmony, and nonviolence within their communities. This collective artwork, created in a circle, symbolizes collaboration, hope and the power of children to lead and inspire peaceful communities.
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
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“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?
No. The next project will be announced in mid-June 2025 and kick off later this summer. Stay tuned for more updates!
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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.