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Our second Youth Summit Our second ‘Youth Summit’ in September 2023 was co-hosted with our Principal Partner, Salesforce. The summit hosted 35 young people from 6 different schools for a one-day design thinking workshop. Raise’s Youth Summit plays a crucial role in capturing feedback from young people, ensuring their input is embedded in the continuous design and enhancement of our program delivery. Our 35 young participants in grades 9 and 10 were from 6 Sydney School Partners – Parramatta High School, Randwick Boys High School, St Ives High School, Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design and Killara High School. Some were graduate mentees, and some were new to our organisation. The group were given real challenges – such as building mentoring relationships, increasing engagement in online delivery, and growing school fundraising opportunities. Working together, they applied design-thinking to develop creative solutions with invaluable mentoring and input from the Salesforce experts. The day ended with a ‘Shark Tank’ exercise, where each group had the opportunity to pitch their idea back to the cohort.
Salesforce, alongside our Youth Engagement Facilitator, played a fundamental role in making the summit a fun, engaging, supportive and well- structured day, with the help of the Raise Programs Team. A true collaborative partnership was formed as Salesforce and Raise worked together to develop the content, agenda and materials for the day. Engagement was extremely high, with unanimous positive feedback from participants. It made evident what we know to be true – creative initiatives inspire and empower young people. The team can’t wait to run more Youth Summits in other states throughout 2024, as well as another in Sydney.
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