Bringing young people together for global change.
Since 2010, students around the world have come together to learn, share their experiences, and make the world a better place. In the process, they’ve created incredible artwork and memories. Each Challenge tackles a unique and timely global issue, and the results are always inspiring.
youth engaged
creative expresssions
dollars raised
Each student's contribution adds up to impact.
Since 2010, more than 1.4 million participants in more than 102 countries and all 50 U.S. states have created 7.1 million works of creative expression and raised $17.6 million dollars.
See the difference students have made—from 2010 through the present.
2024: Extraordinary Earth Project
This year, we invited students from around the world to learn about our environment and what we can do to protect our local and global ecosystems.
Past & present creative expressions
Welcome to the Students Rebuild Gallery! Explore the incredible creative work submitted by young people across the globe – from compelling drawings and powerful poetry to innovative STEM projects and breath-taking performances.
We hope these inspiring, creative expressions spark your imagination and motivate you to join Students Rebuild!
nurturing the roots
nurturing the roots
Team
Gyana R.
Reflection
in this piece, I wanted to explore the profound biological and emotional interdependence between human life and the natural world. By placing a human heart at the base of the soil, the artwork suggests that our own survival and vitality are deeply rooted in the health of the earth.
Hometown Houses Collaboration
Hometown Houses Collaboration
Team
TEAM PIRATES
Reflection
Our Victor K-12 art program engaged in a collaborative project this Fall in order to consider the practice that quiltmaking communities have to both up-cycle and share resources. The parts of our house blocks were made from newly decorated, and older art paper from the previous year. We scoured the school kitchen for cardboard boxes which were flattened and cut down. We followed a common pattern, gluing our up-cycled paper onto the quilt parts and finally assembling them to make multiple blocks of nine. For inspiration the students looked at the work of Laura Petrovich Cheney, an artist who uses up-cycled wood scraps from disaster sites (such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina). She selects for color and an authentic worn texture, preferring not to enhance the colors with new paint. She cuts the scraps into shapes and then assembles them into multiple traditional quilt block patterns. We like to think that, like Petrovich Cheney, our images have a familiar yet pleasing effect.
Our students configured the two hometown community collaborations shown, and are hoping to place them at the local Victor Heritage Museum for our long-standing summer art display opportunity.
Wrap the Earth in Care
Wrap the Earth in Care
Team
Team 232
Reflection
🌎 Wrap the Planet with Care, not Waste! ♻️💚
Inspired by eco-friendly books from @mylibrarynyc , our students turned weeded library books into collages with one important message: PROTECT OUR PLANET! @studentsrebuild
Now, for Climate Action Day: Waste, we’re giving paper a second life! 🌱
The bulletin board students created asks:
🛍️ Donate brown paper and paper bags in our school lobby to help us create beautiful, eco-friendly holiday wrapping paper! Stay tuned for more details!
♻️ Reuse. Reimagine. Wrap with purpose! 💚
Marine Life
Marine Life
Team
Valor Heights ChangeMakers
Reflection
Students grades 5-11 created pastel art of an underwater scene. We considered the beauty of the ocean and our duty to protect it.
STEM trees
STEM trees
Team
Brumfield Elementary
Reflection
3rd graders listened to BE THANKFUL FOR TREES and then they used STEM materials to create a tree after making a thankful tree mural.
Whose Tree is This?
Whose Tree is This?
Team
Brumfield Elementary
Reflection
Our 4th and 5th graders listened to a poem collection entitled WHOSE TREE IS THIS? Then they worked in small groups to create a spring or fall tree and add a least three creatures who benefit from trees.