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See below for details about last summer's programs (2009):
The SSC's Student Environmental Leadership Trainings, are week-long peer-to-peer programs led by the nation's top youth organizers. Develop your grassroots organizing and leadership skills, network and bond with fellow students, engage in fun activities and enjoy tasty vegetarian cooking (the low carbon diet for the climate). Most sites allow you to enjoy activities like spending time in the woods, swimming, hanging out around a campfire, etc. Not only will you come away changed, you'll have the skills and confidence to be a FORCE for CHANGE!



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LEARN to LEAD:

  • GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: How to start and run an effective youth organization. We cover everything from recruitment, to running a meeting, to developing new leaders to ensure that your organization continues once you graduate.
  • CAMPAIGN STRATEGY & PLANNING: How to plan, implement, and run an effective environmental campaign. We use the Sierra Club Matrix to teach the most essential skills needed to effect real change. Later in the week you'll get a change to practice your skills.
  • COMMUNICATION SKILLS: How to define your message and get it across confidently and persuasively to the media, to fellow group members, and to the public.
  • GUEST SPEAKERS: Meet some amazing special guests--Sierra Club experts, leaders of the movement, and experts on various aspects of climate and energy justice.

Of course, the program isn't all work and no play. In addition to the main focus of the program, you can expect to enjoy:

  • Most locations enjoy the beautiful surroundings of a serene location
  • Hikes, games, and energizing evening activities
  • Delicious vegetarian cooking
  • The company and friendship of like-minded youth
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Testimonials
  • "Attending Sprog in Louisiana was the most profound and influential experience of my life. Upon returning to Washington, DC, I felt strong, smart, and creative; more importantly, I was empowered to create change in my personal life and my surrounding community." Marie Stratton, LA Sprog '07
  • "Through Sprog, I was introduced to the SSC and not only shown a clear avenue for expressing my passion, but also a solid support group of peers that I felt, for the first time in my life, truly understood me. Sprog introduced me to the kind of activist work that I want to continue doing for the rest of my life, and equipped me with the tools to successfully do that." Kelsea Norris, LA Sprog '07
  • "Using what I learned through [this] training, I was able to come back to campus and give others the same inspiration I received to empower them and help them initiate change." Jess Wycoff, NH Sprog '07
  • "I met the most wonderful people, in the most wonderful places, and they showed me how to use my passion and power to make a real difference."
    Anna Pierce, OR Sprog '04
  • “This summer's SPROG was not only an educational experience but an extremely motivational one. Attending a SPROG is one of the best things you can do to catapult the climate movement forward.” Morgan Goodwin, NH Sprog '07
  • "If it were not for Sprogs I would not be organizing. The tools and friends I attained at Sprog have carried me through every trial I have faced as a grassroots organizer." Nathan Jones, Trainer, WA Sprog '07
  • "When I arrived, I was just a rising high school junior who had been intrigued by "An Inconvenient Truth." When I left, I was a new leader of the student environmental movement who had been educated, trained, and befriended by the very best of the SSC." Dominique Hazzard, PA Sprog '06
  • "I never learned more in my life in one week than the week that I spent at Illinois SPROG. It wasn't the kind of training that you come home from asking "Now what?", but rather the kind that I still think about every day. I apply the tools I learned about organizing, leading, and being a part of a group to every part of my life, not just my environmental activism." Hannah Wade, IL Sprog
Upcoming Trainings
  • SSC Trainings Directors Retreat
    01/16/2009
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