St. Petersburg College issued the following announcement.
St. Petersburg College is partnering with the Clearwater Neighborhood Family Center to offer the third annual Rising Above: Not An Option! Youth Experience.
The free event offers a safe environment to discuss issues, find common ground and produce solutions that even youth can participate in to create a better community. Attendees can join the program virtually on July 22, 23 and 24 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m., and anyone interested can register here.
With help from the Collaborative Labs team, SPC will provide multiple presenters, swag from the Clearwater Campus, and virtual tours of SPC’s Clearwater campus’ natural science labs and the Gibbs campus’ arts and music spaces.
The conference sessions, which will be conducted on the virtual platform Hopin, are geared toward a wide audience, 6th graders to adults, with a maximum 200 youth and 100 adults, but performances and keynote speakers are open to 400 participants.
Keynote speakers will be SPC Psychology Professor, Dr. Carleah East, who also leads the college’s Project H.E.A.L. program, which encourages mental health awareness for faculty, staff and students. East will be joined by two other keynote speakers, Micah MP3 Poole of Michael Pool & Associates, LLC, and Lloyd Cooper III of LC3 entertainment.
The three-day event will offer workshops, games, performances, activities, prizes, an essay contest and video contest.
The Clearwater Neighborhood Family Center Special Projects Coordinator Michele Edwards says that since the inception of the event, now in its third year, SPC has been a main supporter and sponsor.
“The majority of our presenters and activities are from the talented SPC Community,” Edwards said. “Our hope is that our youth will look into SPC as a means to further their education, and we are confident that our participants from all over the country and the world will enjoy this Youth Experience.”
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