Dear Friends and Family, It’s been an outstanding trip here at Stand UP Chicago! From our first week and a half in Evanston to our last four nights in UIC’s dorms in downtown Chicago, these teens have grown and learned so much in such a short amount of time. We have truly created a family [...]
Chicago
As we wrapped up our time in Chicago, the teens have embarked on some pieces of finality in the program. Monday took our teens to the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) and to the Levine Hillel Center at UIC. Teens were again introduced to the concept of sustainability and food scarcity with a [...]
We hope that all of you had a restful Shabbat just as we did here in Evanston. We started our Friday volunteering at Talking Farm, a sustainable farm in Skokie, just a few minutes away from our home base. Teens learned about the importance of sustainability and got their hands dirty plowing fields, laying hay [...]
The last few days have yielded some amazing speakers and some impactful experiences for the teens here in Chicago. Yesterday, our teens got to learn with Trina Ntamere from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management who workshopped with the teens to solve issues of social inequality and how social entrepreneurship can help combat these problems. The [...]
Stand UP Chicago is off to a patriotic start with our 4th of July celebrations yesterday! Teens traveled to the ballpark formerly known as Comiskey Park (aka U.S. Cellular Field) to watch the Chicago White Sox play the New York Yankees in America’s Pastime, Baseball. Our teens got to know each other through some ice [...]