FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

CONTACT: Daisy Gonzalez-Diego
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
305-995-2060

M-DCPS PARTNERS WITH LEAD2FEED STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has partnered with the “Lead2Feed Student Leadership Challenge” in cooperation with Lift a Life Foundation, Yum! Brands Foundation and USA TODAY Charitable Foundation. The challenge encourages middle and high school students to hone their leadership skills through projects that focus on solving hunger, locally or globally. Students will use principles from Yum! Brands Chairman and CEO David Novak’s best- selling book, “Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen.”

Lead2Feed is a teacher-lead student leadership program that utilizes a proven process to become passionate, service-minded leaders for life. Lead2Feed provides teachers with free project-based lessons aligned to Florida State Standards and 21st Century Skills. The lessons focus on self-awareness, working with others, setting big goals and identifying a national or local hunger-related charity to assist.

Student teams entering the Lead2Feed Student Leadership Challenge have an opportunity to earn up to $25,000 in awards that they may donate to U.S. non-profit hunger organizations and up to $25,000 in technology products for their school provided by Yum! Brands Foundation. Registered teachers receive a free leadership book: “Taking People With You” and USA TODAY electronic editions for classroom use.

Last school year, nearly 200,000 middle and high school students in more than 850 schools participated nationwide in the challenge. Yum! Brands Foundation provided over $250,000 in prize money grants to 100 student teams for U.S. public charities engaged in hunger relief programs.

Miami-Dade’s Design & Architecture Senior High (DASH) lead by their World History teacher, Zudannie Nunez-Hernandez, placed 2nd nationally in the Lead2Feed Student Leadership Challenge and donated a $5,000 check to Miami’s Camillus House. The student team, Phantom Feeders, set up monthly casserole pick-ups from their school. They were able to feed more than 2,370 people during the school year. The students created awareness of local hunger insecurities through posters, video and wrote a song.

The program can be followed on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube through the links below:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Lead2Feed
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeadtoFeed
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lead2feed


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