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Heartland PeaceJam held its annual PeaceJam Slam, a one-day youth conference, at William Woods University on Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 8 am to 3:15 pm.
Dates for the 2010 Slam are not yet decided.
2009's event focused on addressing the PeaceJam Global Call to Action issue: Restoring the Earth's Environment and featured workshops, a keynote speaker, and a service project involving recycling books for the Humanity for Children organization, which partners Callaway County Missouri with Kibungo, Rwanda and a project aimed at recruiting additional Nobel Laureates to participate in the PeaceJam Program.
Registration fee is $25/person (youth or adult) and includes a conference t-shirt, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Documents from 2009 Slam for Reference Only
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The PeaceJam Slam (for PeaceJam participants ages 14-19)
The PeaceJam Slam takes place six months after the PeaceJam Youth Conference. The PeaceJam Slam is a one-day conference bringing youth together to report in on the service-learning/Global Call to Action projects for their community they have already completed, attend leadership training workshops, and get excited about the next PeaceJam year. At the PeaceJam Slam, students find out which Nobel Peace Prize Laureate they will be studying for the next year. It is also a time for the adult advisors to be trained in the new curriculum for the upcoming year.
To get an idea of what a Slam might look like, review the program from the March 2008 Slam (an 18 MB Microsoft Publisher file).
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