Spark Peace Project
2024 - 2025
This year, weāre 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.Ā
Join us!
The Spark Peace Project invites young people everywhere to use their power and creativity to engage with the world’s most pressing issues and build a more peaceful world.Ā
Use our ready-made lesson plans and creative resources to support students as they learn and explore what peace and compassion mean to themselves, their communities, and worldwide.Ā
Students then choose a creative medium to express their ideas about peace. Each work of creative expressionāor student engagedātriggers a $5 donation for organizations doing peacebuilding work around the world.
Why the Spark Peace Project?
Motivation
Peace and compassion are needed today more than ever.
Young people face an increasingly complex world with global conflicts, social injustices, and mental health challenges shaping their realities.
Help young people grow.
Teaching students about peace helps them develop problem-solving and social-emotional skills and promotes compassion, critical thinking, and collaborationāessential tools for navigating and solving the complex challenges they face and becoming impactful and engaged global citizens.
Students can be empowered.
Deepening their understanding of peace empowers young people to positively impact their world, both now and in the future. It also helps youth explore global issues and connect to youth worldwide.
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 9, 2025 11:59pm PDT. Ready to make a difference through creativity? Sign up or sign in today!
Spark Peace Project Progress
$1,000,000
raised of $1,000,000 goal
107,728
creative expressions of 125,000
92,802
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.
Hands of Peace
Team
St. Peter’s UMC of Ocean City, NJ
Reflection
We decorated hands and hung them in our church hallway.
DAY 1
Team
Dakota Hills Middle School
Reflection
DESIGNS TO SHOW PEACE
Enciende la paz
Team
Clase de espaƱol de la Profe Figueroa
Reflection
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.
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
