Author Archives: Clair
What is Real Beauty?: Women in Fashion
Our group is dedicated to researching and fighting against the incredibly unrealistic beauty standards in the fashion industry. Many models [...]
How Social Media Affects Teen Girls’ Body Image
Our group is committed to making social media a more body positive place for teen girls to use. Social media has a large negative effect on [...]
Race, Equality, and Activism in Sports
Our group is dedicated to stopping racial and gender stereotypes in sports. So many players and kids can’t stand up for themselves without [...]
Poverty In Education: Dropping Out
Our group is devoted to helping teens in NYC break the treacherous cycle of poverty. It has been proven that the number one reason that teen [...]
The Solution to Plastic Diffusion
Our group is dedicated to solving the problem of plastics in our ocean and drinking water. This is a problem because if a plastic is small e [...]
Policing in NY
Our group is studying how police treat people of color, different genders, and those with disabilities. Our groups goal is to study the diff [...]
Education and Poverty: Homelessness
Our group is committed to learn about how housing instability affects a child’s education in Public Schools. Nobody knows whether the expe [...]
Freedom of the Press
Our group is focused on Freedom of the press in the US as well as in other countries. We want to find out how the 1st amendment may be flawe [...]
Promotion for the Ocean
Our group is studying climate change and the effect it has on marine environments and ecosystems. One specific example of this would be how [...]
Access to Sports in NYC
Our group is kids access to sports in NYC. We believe that every kid should get the same opportunity to play and enjoy sports just as we do. [...]
Maternal Health
Our group is passionialy studying maternal health. We are trying to help all women have access to the healthcare they need during and after [...]
Child Abuse Prevention: Abolish the Abuse
Our group is studying the many kinds of child abuse in America and how to prevent it. Child abuse is very common; 1 in every 6 children will [...]
Sexual Assault and Trafficking: Girls bodies, not commodities
Our group is studying sexual assault and trafficking. There are millions of women and girls being trafficked every day. Their minds are mani [...]
Turning the World into a Rainbow: LGBTQ Rights
Our group is studying LGBTQ rights. We are specifically focusing on kids and teens. We think it is really important for everyone to be more [...]
Uplifting kids and adults with disabilities: Access to Sports for the Disabled
Our group is helping and learning about kids and adults with disabilities, and the accessibility they have to play sports. Being active is s [...]
Water Pollution
Our group is studying Water Pollution and is focusing on how animals in the ocean are affected by pollution, because humans eat animals and [...]
Environmental Racism
Our group is studying environmental racism which is the unfair treatment of people, by putting low income communities close to or in a envir [...]
Beyond the Bars: Discrimination in the Judicial System
Our group is learning about the discrimination that can be found in the Judicial System. We believe that nobody, should be sent to prison be [...]
More Than A Pretty Face: Women in the Media
Our group is studying the unfair discrimination against women in the media. Women are constantly oversexualised in the media. Women who don [...]
Your Body, Your Choice: Women’s Reproductive Rights
Our group is studying Women’s Reproductive Rights. Women are not getting the right maternal care that they need. In fact, the U.S. is 60th [...]
Freedom of Speech
Our group is focusing on Freedom of Speech and how it behaves in the world. Journalists, writers, and activists have their unalienable right [...]
Stop Police Brutality
When you feel unsafe, you call the police. That’s what you were told to do. But who do you call when the police make you feel unsafe? [...]
Food and Health
Fast food restaurants are everywhere. They portray their food as healthy and good. Most people don’t realize what’s really inside th [...]
Glass Ceiling: Sexualization of Women
We are a group of eighth graders who care about women in the workplace. Why are so few women in positions of leadership in the Fortune 500? [...]
Stop the Shots: Gun Violence in America
Our group is focused on preventing gun violence in America because we do not have strong, clear laws to prevent gun violence in our country. [...]
More Than Just An Image: Young Girls/Teens and the Media
Our group is focusing on the portrayal of women in the media and how it affects young girls and teens. Girls see stereotypical pictures of w [...]
Change Climate Change
Climate change is a global issue that each of us contributes to. There are pipelines running throughout the world that could potentially mak [...]
Take Hunger off the Menu
Our group is studying hunger in the United States. Hunger is a fast growing problem in our country. Over 48 million people are food insecure [...]
Ending Youth Poverty One Bite at a Time
1 in 6 people in the U.S. are impoverished. 500,000 children in New York City alone live below the poverty line. Growing up in poverty can m [...]
Funding Cut Our Future
Public schools in New York alone are owed over 5 billion dollars. Important programs, like art and music, are being cut. The schools that ar [...]
Juvenile Incarceration: How Young is Too Young?
We are a group of three passionate eighth graders devoted to ending wrongful stop and frisk as well as racial profiling. To read our group&# [...]
Stop Rape. Educate.
We are a group of four Eighth Graders that are working to end rape on college campuses. 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted in their col [...]
Children In Gangs: A Brighter Future
We are a group of three eighth graders who are trying to prevent children from joining gangs. These children are forced to murder and steal [...]
Fighters 4 Fighters
We are a group of four 8th graders who are interested in helping Veterans, especially those who return home and become unable to work and li [...]
Women in the Media: Pretty in Pink
We are the group Pretty in Pink. We are five 8th grade girls at LREI. Our group is focusing on women’s portrayal in the media. We hope to [...]
Child Abuse Prevention: Break the Silence. End the Abuse.
We are four eighth graders who feel strongly against the ways in which child abuse robs innocent youth of the pleasant, carefree childhood t [...]
Women & Children in Poverty
More than 46 million people live below the poverty line in the United States. That’s 15% of the American population. To see our work s [...]
Sex Trafficking
We are a group of four eighth graders trying to stop sexual trafficking. In New York City alone, 11,268 females (6,280 of them minors) were [...]
No Water, No Life
We are a group of three eighth graders who are passionate about water conservation. We are especially interested in the topics of water poll [...]
Teens Against Racial Profiling
We are a group of three passionate eighth graders devoted to ending wrongful stop and frisk as well as racial profiling. Click here to see a [...]
