Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders (I-YEL) is a youth environmental organization where youth run and make decisions. During the Fall, we do many workshops and learn about different environmental issues that will prepare the interns for the New Year in January. We pick a project topic that we will be focusing on an environmental issue that we'll be working on for about five months. After we choose the issue, we will design a project about the issue that will be presented to the community. In addition, the I-YEL interns learn and gain planning skills, leadership skills such as public speaking, coordinating, facilitating, and being a mentor to other teens. The I-YEL interns also help bring teens out to national parks. As I-YEL interns we are challenged and we are tested on all we can do.
World Savvy provides educational programs and services with the aim of informing young people about issues such as poverty, conflict and peace building, human rights, and the environment. World Savvy's goals are to develop students' skills to prepare them for their future as global citizens, enhance their understanding of world affairs and develop their sense of responsibility and global citizenship.
On December 7, 2007 at the Zeum in San Francisco, California, World Savvy held an event that helped youth explore international issues and create original art and media. This year World Savvy's theme is power. I-YEL interpreted World Savvy's theme of power by looking at big corporate companies' commercial advertisement and how they advertise their company to make consumers buy their product. The I-YEL education team teamed up into groups and researched powerful corporations and found out what their company is actually doing behind closed doors. I-YEL created posters using Adobe Photoshop to create our own advertisement to reveal what the companies are really doing. By revealing what the companies are really doing, we take away power from the companies and give that power back to the consumer.
Reference: http://worldsavvy.org/about/mission.php


United Sates of McDonald's
Artists: Jacky Lu, Carolina Palaclio, Allen Chen
Grades: 9th, 11th & 9th
Medium: Microsoft paint, Adobe Photoshop
Artist's Statement: We created this piece of art to learn more about what goes into our stomachs and to inform the uninformed about what goes in their stomachs. Sometimes foods that taste delicious can do horrible things to your body


The Hazardous Water Bottle
Artists: Norma Perez-Chun, Kary Kwong-Lee
Grade: 11th & 10th
Medium: flickr.com, Adobe Photoshop
Artists' Statement: Our artwork relates to "power" because we are giving people the opportunity to make informed decisions about their lives and choices. We created this art piece because this directly affects us.


Coke World
Artists: Christopher Norman Johnny Li
Grade: 11th & 10th
Artists' Statement: "Coke World" depicts the damage that the Coca-Cola industry does to the world with its transportation and how they add to the harmful effects of global warming. There is a lone polar bear representing the remaining one on Earth.