OSU Inaugural Youth Impact Summit

OSU Inaugural

 Youth Impact Summit

October 7 & 8, 2024, OSU Portland Center

Register for the Summit!

 

Together We Can! Advancing Youth Care and Education and Educator/Program Staff Development

October 7 & 8, 2024, OSU Portland Center

The OSU Inaugural Youth Impact Summit is brought to you in a partnership with the 2024 Engagement Scholarship Consortium International Conference (as their Pre-College and Youth Programming pre-Conference Opportunity) and OregonASK (as their Fall conference opportunity). Join us for two days of professional development workshops, featuring sessions on building partnerships, engaging with K-12 audiences, mental and physical health, and arts and STEM education.

Who is the conference for? 

All are welcome to join and learn more about how OSU and external youth programs are impacting communities across the State. Sessions are designed to meet the needs of youth program staff, engaged faculty, staff, and volunteers, hired students and seasonal employees, external partners, leaders, and funders contributing to impact in youth care and education and educator/staff development programs.

 

View the Full Schedule!

 Schedule Day 1 Snapshot

Download Agenda for Monday

Time Activity
9:00am - 10:00am Registration, coffee, and welcome!
10:00am - 11:30am AM concurrent sessions
11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch Break (lunch provided)
12:30pm - 2:00pm PM concurrent sessions
2:00pm - 2:30pm Coffee and snacks
3:00pm - 4:45pm Youth Program Tabling Fair @ Sentinel Hotel
4:00pm - 5:00pm Happy hour and youth band "Root Vegetables"
5:00pm - 6:00pm Keynote Talk #1: Brodrick Clarke
6:00pm - 7:00pm Banquet dinner
6:45pm - 7:30pm Keynote Talk #2: Susan Sheth
7:30pm - 8:00pm Rainbow Dance Theatre Performance

 Schedule Day 2 Snapshot

Download Agenda for Tuesday

Time Activity
8:30am - 9:00am Snacks, coffee, and mingling
9:00am - 11:00am AM concurrent sessions
11:00am - 12:00pm Lunch Break (lunch provided)
12:00pm - 2:00pm PM concurrent sessions
2:00pm - 2:30pm Closing

Organizing Partners:

 

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 OSU Precollege Programs

 

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Engagement Scholarship Consortium Logo

2024 Engagement Scholarship Consortium International Conference, Pre-College pre-conference committee

 

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OregonAsk Logo

OregonASK, Afterschool and Summer for Kids Network

Meet the Keynote Speakers

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Brodrick Clarke

Renowned Youth Development Expert with over 25 years of dedicated experience in shaping the lives of young individuals and the practitioners who serve them. Over the years, he has held key positions in national and international youth development organizations, including, Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville Kentucky, Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality, Forum for Youth Investment, National Institute on Out of School Time, American Camp Association, and National Summer Learning Association where he currently serves as Vice President of Programs and Systems Quality.

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Susan Sheth

Director of Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) at Michigan State University and co-author of Pre-College Programs in Higher Education: The Evolution of a Movement . Susan is a member of the Pre-College Advisory Board and Pre-College Leadership Team at Michigan State University and the Chair of the Michigan Pre-College Youth Webinar Series.  She also serves on the ESC Pre-College, Pre-Conference Workshop planning committee. Dr. Sheth has co-edited and published a trilogy of Pre-College Programming in Higher Education books, including a Handbook, Workbook, and Case Studies book.

Artistic Performances

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The Root Vegetables

Emmet & Galen Murch and Cedric Petrovich go to high school in Philomath, Oregon and have been running around and playing music together since they were little. Here is how they describe their band: Just as the wildebeest trek hundreds of miles across the scorching sub-Saharan savanna to access fresher pastures, you too will find yourself drawn to the swell, soulful, seductive, and simply smashing sounds of The Root Vegetables. They have been grooving along nicely since the agricultural revolution and show no signs of slowing. Just like sub-tropospheric rhizomes, the funky music of the Root Vegetables is organic, earthy, convivial, and always fresh.

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Darryl Thomas

 

Darryl Thomas is the artistic director for the rainbow dance company. He has toured throughout the world as dancer and artistic collaborator and his choreography has been featured in a repertory of dance companies spanning the globe. Darryl has a strong commitment to community engagement and has collaborated on dance programs for at-risk youth around the United States. These programs aim to empower and inspire young individuals. Drawing from his experience on stage, Thomas brings coding to the classroom with his latest STEM+Arts workshop, “Code Can Dance.” This innovative program utilizes hip hop and African dance to develop coding skills and promote inclusivity for youth who are traditionally underrepresented in the computer science field.