The Young People’s Project Inc. in Michigan recently held its first League Day Math Tournament at Willow Run Middle School. More than 40 students in grades five through 12 joined together June 5 at Willow Run Middle School to compete in what is called the Flagway Game, in which players categorize numbers.
We love the work the Young People’s Project (YPP) is doing! The group creates opportunities for young people to learn, teach, lead, and organize. One exciting project they are involved in is “Quality Education as a Constitutional Right” (QECR), which seeks to raise educational standards for American schoolchildren.
And then there is the Young People's Project, an outgrowth of Bob Moses' now legendary Algebra Project, which seeks to empower junior and senior high school students by developing their mathematical literacy. Now led by Moses' son, Omowale, (who carries the African name Malcolm X was given when he visited Nigeria), YPP was founded in 1996 in Jackson, Miss., on the belief, ''that there is work that young people can and must do to change the conditions of their lives and that math literacy work was a good place to start.''
One thousand enthusiastic celebrants at the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee here were credited by a top White House official with making possible the Barack Obama presidency, as the group passed the torch to a new generation fighting for a constitutional right to quality education.
The Young People's Project is hosting a summer camp at Ohio State University-Mansfield that will help to empower and help Eighth Graders at Malabar Middle School to excel in Mathematics.