1. Dunbar Vocational Career Academy High School Chicago, Illinois Jefferson Awards Students in Action We Mighty Leaders Are Just Getting Started! Saturday, April 9, 2011

2. Dunbar Mighty Leaders Our school celebrates and promotes service! Dr. Covington is our biggest fan. She encourages and supports everything we do! Mrs. Fujimoto is our faculty advisor. She keeps us on track. Our Service Learning Coordinator, Ms. Romito, ensures service learning hours are recorded. This year we set a school record! Our Mighty Men & Women earned 37,191 service hours. The financial impact is worth $781,011 to our community!

3. Mighty Leadership Team Dunbar’s vision is of a school of service leaders, who create positive change. When people think of a Chicago Public School, they will think of our students changing the world. Our Members: Samantha Davies, Tatiana Williams, Britney Howard, Hannah Neely, Karolyn Denise Jones, Triana Chatman-Page, N’dea Davis, Demarco Ewings, Briantay Burnett, and Sekia McCline All our members have an equal voice in the organization. Several of our members attended the Fall Leadership Conference at IIT and had a fabulous time! Four of our leaders attended the National Youth Service Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a fantastic experience. We are recruiting underclassmen to join our ranks, in order to guarantee a smooth transition through the years. We have identified several candidates we hope will become Mighty Student Leaders.

4. We Live to Serve! Each month, we accept nominations from students, teachers, and staff for our Student Winners. Our Winners: November 2010 N’dea Davis and Tatiana Williams December 2010 Demarco Ewings and Briantay Burnett January 2011 Hannah Neely and Karolyn Denise Jones February 2011 India Khan and Shannon Brown March 2011 Octavia Holton and Samantha Davies Any student looking for volunteer opportunities can seek out one of our Mighty Student Leaders. We are happy to connect students to groups that need members, and vice versa. We have helped Mayor Daley’s Book Club, BuildOn, and the Ladies of Distinction recruit new members. We signed up students to volunteer at the Shamrock Shuffle with Back On My Feet, a group that provides homeless people with job skills and teaches them to run for exercise and stress relief. Our canned food drive benefits the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and our clothing drive benefits the Salvation Army. Students can earn service learning hours for helping those in need. We are very excited to be helping with the Special Olympics in May. Our students will be cheering for our athletes and providing encouragement!

5. Mighty Leaders at Work We have been selling candy and chips to raise money for our first ever Scholarship for Outstanding Student Service. So far we have raised $336. We hope to raise $1000. Should we have funds remaining, the balance will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

6. Getting the Word Out We post the names of our Student Winners on the Dunbar Website: www.dunbarhs.org www.dunbarhs.org We have a Mighty Students in Action Blog where we post the names of our Student Winners, as well as information about current and upcoming service opportunities.Mighty Students in Action Blog We wrote a press release announcing our Celebration of Student Service Assembly which was forwarded to media outlets around Chicago, including Chicago Public Radio, The Chicago Defender, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and our Ward 2 Alderman Robert Fioretti.

7. Big Plans for the Future We have not had an opportunity to partner with another Students in Action School this year, but we have big plans to do so next year. We made many new friends at the National Youth Service Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio, which we hope will lead us to amazing partnerships in the years to come. We learned so much about networking at the NYSS, that we can’t wait to put our new skills to work!

8. Celebration of Student Service Assembly Monday, March 28, 2011, we hosted our first ever Celebration of Student Service Assembly. We recognized our Student Leaders, and there were presentations from Students in Action, the Men of Distinction, & the Ladies of Distinction. Our principal Dr. Covington spoke about the importance of service. The audience enjoyed a musical performance from Trevor Hill and Jarvis Morgan, and a modern dance performance from India Khan and Shannon Brown. After the assembly, there was a Volunteer Fair, where students signed up to join clubs that were recruiting new members. BuildOn, the Ladies of Distinction, Special Olympics and Best Buddies, and Mayor Daley’s Book Club were all excited to welcome new members. Furthermore, Back on My Feet, an organization that provides job skills and networking skills to homeless people, was there to sign up students to volunteer for the Shamrock Shuffle 8K Race Sunday, April 10. It was a great experience and we are looking forward to our next Celebration of Student Service Assembly in May. Our next Volunteer Fair will be in October.