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2024 Media Hits

• News 8: Rochester City School District Students Participate in “Project Soapbox”
• WHAM: Rochester Students Tackle Important Topics at Annual ‘Project Soapbox
• Newark Post Online: Local teens get on their soapbox at public speaking exhibition
• University of Delaware Daily: Engaging the next generation
• WSJM: Chicago area civics program bringing high school students to St.Joseph this weekend
• CBS: Chicago high school students of voting age cast ballots in ‘Parade to the Polls’
• Spectrum News 1: Seneca High School students get on their soapbox
• Broadway World: MMSD Students Will Participate in Project Soapbox at Overture
• WTTW: A WTTW News Community Conversation: Youth and Civic Education
• Chicago Today: Mikva Challenge inspires the next generation of civic leaders
• Chicago Crusader: Empowering the Youth Vote: A path to a stronger democracy

2023 Media Hits

• The Hill: Gen Z and millennials will be key in future elections— so how do we reach them?
• KSBW 8: Salinas teen co-writes first-of-its-kind national resolution to honor farmworkers
• WTTW: These young people are taking the lead on anti-violence efforts in Chicago
• Newsweek: DC debater uses argument skills to enact change in city schools
• Chalkbeat: Teaching civics is increasingly fraught, but I won’t stop doing it
• Mining Gazette: Houghton High School student takes place in National Youth Summit
• Caledonian Record: Groveton High School students attend National Youth Summit in Washington, D.C.
• Concord Monitor: Concord High teen brings environmental enthusiasm to National Youth Summit in D.C.
• The Washington Informer: Student advocates for career, technical education in D.C. rec centers
• The Up & Up:‘Democracy is a verb’: Action-oriented civics unfolds in the nation’s capitol
• WAVE 3: Jefferson County teens speak in Washington, D.C. after being selected for National Summit
• Spectrum News: Jefferson County teen heads to Washington D.C. to give speech on mental health
• WBEZ’s Reset: What Asian-American youth need to thrive
• Keweenaw Report: U.P. Students to attend national civic engagement conference
• Chicago Tribune: Pritzker ‘very impressed’ after seeing students’ Mikva Challenge civics projects at Waukegan High
• ABC 6: Tom Baldini Soapbox Challenge encourages student voice
• Daily Herald: East Aurora High Schools hosts Mikva soapbox speech competition
• The Cap Times: Madison students speak out about fat-shaming, trans attacks, racism
• ABC 27 WKOW: Project Soapbox: Madison students speak out about major issues
• Channel 3000: Project Soapbox gives Madison teens a chance to speak their minds
• Concord Monitor: Two among 11 selected for civic speech project
• ABC7 Chicago: Chicago students pickup lifelong lessons while serving as election judges
• WBEZ: Teens step in to make sure Chicagoans can vote today
• Univision: Organizaciones realizan un evento para impulsar el voto de los jóvenes en las elecciones municipales en Chicago
• CBS Chicago: More CPS high school students will parade to the polls ahead of next week’s elections
• Newark Post: Project Soapbox helps local kids find their voice
• PBS’s The Kentucky Network: Jefferson County students accept Soapbox challenge
• WHAS11: Kentucky students compete in speech showcase, voice their concerns within the community
• Christian Science Monitor: Civics in the shadow of Capitol Hill: Letter from a DC high school
• ABC7 DC: Kids diving into politics

2022 Media Hits

• Concord Monitor: At summit, local students collaborated to study issues
• WTOP: DC students say their truths about their biggest concerns in the community
• WAMU/DCist: At Project Soapbox, DC students urge officials to take action on issues close to home
• WBBM: Chicago students answer: “What’s the biggest issues faced by your community?”
• Washington City Paper: Give it up D.C. 2022 Giving Guide
• Mining Gazette: Houghton HS student wins Project Soapbox 
• ABC 7: Chicago high school students serve as judges at polls through Mikva Challenge
• WBEZ: Poll watchers serve as the ‘eyes and ears’ of the voting process
• Univision: Interview with Mikva student Melanie G. for Elecciones 2022
• Detroit Free Press: These kids have a lot to say. We should listen to them.
• Chalkbeat: Chicago schools started removing police two years ago. What’s happened since?
• KSBW Action News 8: Alisal High School student earns finalist spot in national speech competition
• Univision: “Tienen que salir a votar:” jóvenes invitan a los latinos a participar de las elecciones primarias de Illinois
• Chalkbeat: Chicago voters cast votes with the help of local students
• Concord Monitor: Weare student addresses nation on food waste
• DCist: Mayoral candidates face tough questions from candidates at youth led forum
• ABC13 WHAM: Students use their voice to improve culture at Rochester school
• Chicago Tribune: Waukegan students learn how to get things done at Civics Showcase 
• Fox6: Marquette County students compete in Tom Baldini Soapbox Challenge
• Chicago Tribune: School resource officers are under scrutiny again in CPS as dozens of high schools reconsider the controversial police program
• Wisconsin Public Radio: A call for empathetic listening to be taught in schools
• NPR’s 1A: Civics education 101
• EdSource: California offers graduation honor to encourage active civic engagement
• Lessons in Adolescence: Lessons with youth participants at Mikva Challenge
• Queens Chronicle: Queens students get on their soapbox 
• WBEZ Chicago: How Chicago’s students feel about the battle around in-person, remote learning
• Newsweek: To repair democracy, teach empathic listening as a civic skill

2021 Media Hits

• Rochester City School District: Students at Northeast College Preparatory High School recognized for student voice curriculum
• Caledonian Record: Groveton Student’s Speech On Body Shaming Among Top 12 In Project Soapbox National Mainstage
• Bridge Detroit: Detroit teens’ words are getting state, national attention
• Chalkbeat Chicago: What do Chicago students say they most need? Counselors, school board seats, therapy dogs
• Free Spirit Media: A new approach to safety in schools
• Jefferson County Public Schools: Students Get on Their Soapbox About Issues Important to Them
• WBEZ: Chicago’s K-8 Classes Are Back To In-Person. But What’s Next For High Schoolers?
• Concord Monitor: Student speeches take on issues
• ABC7: Our Chicago: Town hall examines city’s women in leadership roles amid Women’s History Month
• Theory & Research in Social Education: Cultivating empathic listening in democratic education
• Chicago Philippine Reports TV (CPRTV): Interview with Mikva Youth London and Emanuel
• Manchester Ink Link: 2021 New Hampshire’s Kid Governor sworn in during inauguration ceremony
• Block Club Chicago: West Side Violence Prevention Group Helping CPS Design Alternatives To Cops In Schools: ‘A Whole Different Way Of Them Doing Things’
• WTTW: CPS Partnering With Community Groups to Rethink School Safety Without Resource Officers
• Chicago Sun-times: CPS partners with 5 community groups to develop new safety alternatives to in-school officers
• ABC 7: Teachers’ union creates creative lesson plan contest following Capitol riot
• Chalkbeat: Witnessing history: Teachers and students left reeling, looking for lessons in an insurrection

2020 Media Hits

• Urban Institute: Engaging Young Leaders to Drive an Inclusive Recovery
• Chicago Tribune: Climate change and Abner Mikva documentaries this week on WTTW offer a couple of hours to think before Election Day
• Chicago Sun-Times: Mikva could conjugate ‘democracy’
• Medium: Let Youth Voters Take the Wheel
• Chicago Tribune: Climate change and Abner Mikva documentaries this week on WTTW offer a couple of hours to think before Election Day
• Univision: “Debe haber un cambio”: jóvenes en Chicago reaccionan al segundo debate entre Joe Biden y Donald Trump
• WTTW: How Abner Mikva Inspired People to Believe in Government’s Power for Good
• Education Week: Students Deserve a Voice in Our Pandemic Response. Here’s How to Give It to Them
• Daily Herald: Constable: Mikva film could inspire future ‘nobodies’
• Columbia Chronicle: Looking for a way to get involved in the November election? Be an election judge
• WGN Radio: Chicago youth making a difference
• Comcast Newsmakers Segment: Democracy is a Verb – Verneé Green, Mikva Challenge
• NBC Chicago: How Youth Leaders Want Chicago to Address Pressing Issues
• Chalkbeat Chicago via Patch: Under Pressure, Chicago Unveils More Reforms To School Police Program
• WTTW: CPS Announces New Reforms to School Resource Officer Program
• The Beverly Review: Morgan Park High School offers wall-to-wall IB program
• CountAllKids: DC Action for Children – Engaging Youth in 2020 Census Outreach
• News Spectrum 1: JCPS Receives Grant to Promote Student Civic Involvement
• Education Week: Grassroots Momentum Builds for Anti-Racist K-12 Instruction
• Bronx Times: Students at Pelham Bay school participate in civics competition
• The 74: ‘Just Above Water’: As Hallowed D.C. Summer Youth Employment Program Preps to Go Virtual for First Time, Employers Rush to Create Meaningful Experience for 10,000 Students
• Chicago Unheard: I Miss School, And I’m Adapting to Pandemic Learning, Too
• Caledonian Record: The Mikva Challenge: A New Curriculum For NH Schools
  The Cap Times: High School sophomore part of national youth group documenting COVID-19 experience
• WUSA9: ‘We are the people most at stake’ | Local teenagers lead national conversation on COVID-19 and young people
• WBEZ: Illinois Students Grapple With A Lost Senior Year Due To COVID-19
• 1340 WJOL: Governor Pritzker Announces New Statewide Telehealth Programs, Mental Health Support Hotline
• New Channel ABC 20: Gov. Pritzker hosts virtual youth town hall
• Patch: ‘It’s OK To Feel’: Pritzker Announces Coronavirus Support Lines
• Chicago Sun Times: Students wonder when they can return to school during Gov. Pritzker’s live-streamed town hall for youth
• Queens Daily Eagle: City kicks off annual teen voter drive in Long Island City
• NCTV17: D204 Students Go To The 2020 Iowa Caucuses
• Chicago Tribune: Students from Indian Prairie District 204 to aid and observe in Iowa caucus process Monday
• CNN: These high school seniors are hitting the campaign trail in Iowa
• Houston Chronicle: As Democratic primaries near, educators can teach hope to a polarized citizenry
• CNN: These are the issues young people say they care about in the 2020 election
• Financial Times: US election: Democrats divided on how to take on Trump
• CNN: CNN outtake – Michael and Delonta on the trail in Iowa!
• District 207: West Students Participate in the Mikva Challenge Election in Action Program
• CNN: They grew up miles from the White House but went to Iowa to be heard
• The Washington Informer: D.C. EDUCATION BRIEFS: Warriors in Action
• WGLT | NPR: Normal West Students Get Facetime With Presidential Candidates During Iowa Trip
• Genius Expert: Genius Expert: How Schools Can Celebrate Black History Month (And Why It Matters)
• Pantagraph: ‘Super impactful’: Normal West students meet presidential candidates in caucus-ready Iowa
• WBEZ 91.5: Chicago Teens Find Their Political Voice In Iowa
• CBS2: Local High School Students Headed To Iowa For ‘Mikva Challenge’ To Campaign Ahead Of The Caucus
• WGN Radio: Chicago kids are headed to Iowa to campaign for presidential candidates
• ELON NEWS: Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Simpson College: The presidential candidate focused on appealing to the student voters
• WBEZ 91.5: Chicago Teens Testing Political Waters In Iowa
• ABC7: Chicago high school students traveling to Des Moines to join campaign trail ahead of Iowa caucuses
• NPR | St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri Teens Head To Iowa To Learn About Caucuses, Political Campaigns Up Close
• am New York: Students share thoughts on social issues at Soapbox NYC
• Good.is: Teaching hope during the 2020 campaign season

2019 Media Hits

• Edutopia: Civics Education and Student-Driven Civic Action
• The Washington Post: D.C. could reinvent civics education
• Edutopia: Getting Started With Culturally Responsive Teaching
• Social Education: From Mobilizing Youth Voters to Developing Lifelong Civic Leaders
• District Administration: How civics inspires students to get involved: Watching democracy in action shifts students from recipients to leader of their own learning
• WAMU / The Kojo Nnamdi Show: What Do Local Students Think Of National Politics?
• Mining Journal: Soapbox challenge, Marquette County students get & give civics lessons
• Fox Up: Marquette Senior High School students prepare for final round of the Tom Baldini Soapbox Showcase
• Beachwood Reporter: Comics In The Classroom: Teaching Democracy
• Daily Herald: Proving ourselves through civic engagement is important for immigrants
• CSPAN: Soapbox Nation: Youth Speech Showcase
• Chicago Humanities: Stacey Abrams meets MIKVA Challenge’s GRL PWR
• Education Weekly: ‘Action Civics’ Enlists Students in Hands-On Democracy
• Chicago Tribune: From the community: Mikva Challenge and Allstate Insurance Company Launch the Allstate Sponsored Youth Program Officers Initiative
• CBS Chicago: High School Students Encouraged To Find Their Voices Through Civic Engagement Non-Profit
• Chalkbeat: Looking at low voter turnout, some Chicago youth wonder if civics and outreach would help
• Grit Daily: Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Peretti Host Comedy Benefit For Youth Civic Engagement
• Los Angeles Times | HS Insider: Action Civics LA empowers young generation to participate in local communities

2018 Media Hits

• WTTW: JB Pritzker Fields Questions from High School Students
• Chicago Sun Times: ‘Whose voice? Youth voice!’: Crowd gets on ‘soapbox’ to speak on social issues
• NBC 5 / Telemundo Chicago: 2018 ‘Project Innovation’ Grant Challenge Winners Announced—NBC 5 spotand Telemundo spot
• WBBM: Newsmakers Making a Difference: Michelle Morals, Mikva Challenge
• WTTW: 2018 Governor’s Race: Democratic Candidates Face High School Students
• WGN: MLK Day celebrations call for public service, challenge divisive political climate