Unique & United Project
2025 - 2026
This year, weāre inviting youth around the globe ages 5-25, to join us on a journey to help shape a more united world. Unique and United invites young people to explore their identities, celebrate their differences, and use creative expression as a force for empathy, unity, and bold ideas capable of making a positive impact on our communities and the world.
Join us!
Unique and United invites young people everywhere to explore their identities, challenge assumptions, and harness their creativity to express a vision for a more united world.
Why the Unique & United Project?
Motivation
Our world is facing division, uncertainty, and rapid change.
Young people face an increasingly divisive world, but seek ways to understand themselves and connect with others.
Help young people connect.
Teaching students how to explore their identities and those of others – the traits, experiences, and stories that make them who they are – and learn how celebrating our differences fosters understanding and connection.
Students can be empowered.
Deepening their understanding of the shared humanity between individuals, cultures, and communities empowers young people to discover how unique perspectives can lead to bold ideas that positively impact the world.
How to Participate
The ProcessLearn
Explore resources like lesson plans, art guides, and videos that help students explore who they are – their traits, experiences, and stories –Ā and reflect on the shared humanity between individuals, cultures, and communities.
Create
Encourage students to express their vision for a more united world through their choice of literary, media, performing and visual arts, or STEM.
Share
Submit studentsā creative works to Students Rebuild. Each submission or student engaged raises $5 to support organizations worldwide that foster connection and champion collaborative change, up to $1 million.
Get Started
New to Students Rebuild?
Quick Start GuideCheck out our Quick Start Guide, which walks you through how to participate step by step and lists all the resources available to you.
What's in it for you?
Aside from raising money through your creative works, every team or participant who submits artwork receives a downloadable Certificate of Participation. You can also request a detailed letter for service learning hours by emailing [email protected].
Mark your calendar!
All creative work must be submitted by June 2, 2026 9:00am PDT. Ready to make a difference through creativity? Sign up or sign in today!
Unique & United Project Progress
$1,000,000
raised of $1,000,000 goal
Weāve reached our donation goal!
83,541
creative expressions
Every creative work generated raises awareness of the importance of empowering youth and building bridges! Submit now!
100,690
youth engaged
Choose a Medium
Creativity has the power to change the world, and itās something that all of us can do. Explore the 5 mediums you can use for your Students Rebuild project.
Literary Arts
Short stories, essays, and poetry.
Performing Arts
Dance, theater, and music.
Media Arts
PSAs, films, and videos.
Visual Arts
Graphic design, drawings, paintings, photography, and memes.
STEM
Robotics, digital design, and games.
Origami Pets
Team
John Marshall High School Bears
Reflection
Students made origami pets to unite with acts of kindness to children and seniors in isolation.
Mr. Cesarani’s Self Portraits
Team
Team 232
Reflection
In Mr. Cesaraniās 1st grade art classes, students created self-portraits inspired by the art movement Cubism, as seen in the work of Pablo Picasso. By breaking their faces into different shapes and perspectives, students explored the idea that identity is multifaceted and can be viewed in many ways. This approach helped even the youngest learners understand that there is no single way to represent themselves, reinforcing the message that everyone is complex, unique, and valued.
Unique and United Hands
Team
Valor Heights ChangeMakers
Reflection
In teams we created 13 works of art. The art was hands drawn in Zentangles style
With a pastel background. We traced our hands and some
students chose to
Overlap them. This represented how we each are unique- but we are also
The same. The hands were not colored, they were white and black- representing all hands uniting together:
Unique and United: How can I help?
Team
Kunsislekker@Gim
Reflection
Learners expressed their own unique characteristic feature, in the style of an artist of their choice, to show how they can make a positive contribution in their surrounds.
Unique and United Word Art
Team
Valor Heights ChangeMakers
Reflection
Participants grades 5th-12th grade found partners and talked about what it meant to be Unique, but also United. One of the partners wrote word are for Unique, while the other wrote word art for the word United. Together we are unique and united. We made a video after for social media and tagged “Students Rebuild” in the post. 16 students participated in this art project.
Positive Keychains
Team
Listen and Learn ā®ļøāļø
Reflection
Being unique is the ākeyā to unity. These positive keychains are a daily reminder of this.
Be A Rainbow
Team
BJH Merit Class
Reflection
Students created a bulletin board to display in the school with Maya Angelou’s quote, “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” Students wrote how they could be a rainbow and also asked other students and adults in the school to share their responses to be added to the board.
Whodunit? Activity
Team
Vista Magnet Middle School
Reflection
Whodunit? Activity: Students were asked to write about a meaningful personal experience, something memorable, embarrassing, or an event that helped them learn more about themselves. The teacher then read each anonymous response aloud, and classmates tried to guess which student had written the story. Through this activity, students discovered that they have more in common than they often realize, fostering empathy, connection, and a stronger sense of community within the classroom.
small heart make big heart
Team
Clymore Cardinals
Reflection
The art teacher and the Multilingual Learner Teacher collaborated to have as many students as possible make a small heart with something unique about themselves. Those hearts were combined into one large heart, to show united.
From Our Class: Messages of Hope
Team
Ms. Arellano’s 5th Grade Class
Reflection
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the Eaton Fire, our class took time to pause, reflect, and remember. This day holds deep meaning for many in our community, and we wanted to honor it with care and compassion.
Together, students created messages of hope to acknowledge the anniversary and offer encouragement to those who continue to heal and rebuild. Through words of kindness, resilience, and unity, our class hopes to remind everyone that even in difficult times, our community stands strong.
See what students are creating around the world
Use this map to find other teams participating in the project ā the pins show where teams created their works of creative expression. Click the icons to learn how the programs you helped fund are making a difference.
Browse Project Resources
Activity guides, lesson plans, videos, and more to help you implement Students Rebuild in your school or organization.
The programsĀ your art helps fund
For each Students Rebuild annual Project, we partner with high-impact organizations working on the ground to help strengthen communities worldwideāmany of them household names. The funds we donate transform student work into immediate, on-the-ground progress for carefully vetted programs that are evaluated according to the outcomes they produce. In addition to extending our reach and helping our funding make more of a difference, our partners also inform the resources we provide to teachers and students.
- Impact Partners
- Participation Partners
