Program Overview
The Pangaea Project empowers youth from low-income families to become effective "changemakers" in their community and the world.
Each year, a new cohort of high school students participates in our core classroom experience, international journey, and graduate leadership program. Participants build skills that are critical for productive leadership, discover issues about which they feel passionate, and learn concrete tools that are essential to making changes in our local communities. Our curriculum focuses on relevant social justice issues and provides students the opportunity to meet leaders and to learn about grassroots change.
The global perspective that Pangaea Project students gain abroad empowers them to become more effective leaders as they emerge with an ability to work effectively and solve problems with people from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, as well as the empathy and desire to make change. Students complete The Pangaea Project having recognized their own capacity and motivation to become "changemakers" in their local community.
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"Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to form the foundations of the present-day continents, is the explanation of the original production of the single mass, or PANGAEA, by the concentration of the former holosphere of granitic sial into a hemisphere of compressed and crushed gneisses and schists. Creep and the effects of compression, due to shrinking or other causes, have been appealed to but this is hardly a satisfactory explanation. The earth could no more shrug itself out of its outer rock-shell unaided, than an animal could shrug itself out of its hide, or a man wriggle out of his skin, or even out of his closely buttoned coat, without assistance either of his own hands or those of others." — Amadeus William Grabau