From outdoor classrooms to community gardens, young student leaders in the Illawarra's northern suburbs are creating projects providing real positive differences for their communities.
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For the past five years the projects have been conceived at a Leadership Program held at Bulli High School.
The latest such event was held earlier this week and included students from Bulli High's nine feeder primary schools.
Bulli High School science teacher and Leadership Program coordinator Nick Brankovic said students involved came from Bulli and Waniora Primary all the way up to Otford.
"They come to design community-based projects that are unique to their area and demographic," he said.
"Those nine schools will develop their own projects, take that back to their school and implement it over the next six months so they can make a difference to the community.
"Most of the projects that we will design are based around wellbeing and looking at how we can use student leaders to access that and demonstrate that."
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Mr Brankovic said students will spend the next six months developing their project before returning to Bulli High to showcase what impact their particular project has had on their community.
He added some 45 projects had been developed over the last five years, with many of the completed projects then implemented by other schools.
"So we've had students design outdoor classrooms, community gardens and beach safety pamphlets in different languages," Mr Brankovic said.
"We've also had them running school canteens for a day and learning about business models in schools. We've also had them go to nursing homes to share some leadership skills with some older members in our community.
"At the end of the day the program is designed to have student leaders implement a project within their community that is going to have a meaningful impact.
"We've been lucky in that although these projects are designed to help our local schools, many including some fundraising initiatives, have supported worthy causes nationally and internationally."
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Agron Latifi
Wollongong born and bred. I love reporting about the Illawarra region and have been doing it for more than 20 years. I've moved into sport recently after covering the education round for the last five plus years for the Illawarra Mercury. It's been a great pleasure.
Wollongong born and bred. I love reporting about the Illawarra region and have been doing it for more than 20 years. I've moved into sport recently after covering the education round for the last five plus years for the Illawarra Mercury. It's been a great pleasure.
