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 . 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
Weāve reached our donation goal!
107,728
creative expressions of 125,000
Every creative work generated raises awareness of the importance of empowering youth and building bridges! Submit now!
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.
It Matters: Children in Armed Conflict
Team
Wolfpack
Reflection
Students learned about the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the six grave violations as a result of armed conflict. They then created art and poetry to draw attention to the issue and the value of peace.
Community hearts
Team
Little Kingdom students
Reflection
Based on the idea that we first need to love and be at peace with ourselves before we can build a peaceful community, Students across three year groups created individual hearts that explored the things that brought them peace. These were then combined to create a collaborative wall hanging symbolising the student’s school community ties that are built on love and peace.
What does Peace Mean to you?
Team
St. Benedict School
Reflection
Students from St. Benedict Elementary School engaged in a Peace Project afternoon with their “buddy classes” (cross-graded). Students were shown a presentation about the project, including information about the Spark Peace Project. Some projects were individual, while others were a group effort!
NAHS personal peace expression
Team
Irish NAHS
Reflection
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.
Peace
Team
Children-Led Community Peace Labs
Reflection
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.
Peace Message Painting
Team
Brookside Adventures Plus
Reflection
The students used painters tape to create a design on their paper. They then painted their paper using bright colors. After painting, they removed the tape. Where the tape was they wrote their message of peace exploring the concept of Self-talk. Self-talk is how we speak to ourselves, otherwise known as our inner voice. We might not be aware that weāre doing it, but we almost certainly are.
ASL – BE KIND TO EVERYONE
Team
Jenn G. (Brentwood UFSD)
Reflection
ASL lesson / Mental Health Awareness / Positive messages
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
