SurveyBods

Sunday 27 July 2014

iDEA Award

A group of us has entered a competition to design an app. Jess, the team leader, thought that an app where young people could search for opportunities, in one place, would be a good idea. I thought this was a great idea so I joined the team!

For the second round, we had to submit a video of our app. Here is my section: 


https://www.dropbox.com/s/4mbstskmn8zo147/DSCF0365.AVI


Sunday 13 July 2014

UK Youth Event

I have just got back for UK Youth's annual conference at Avon Tyrell. It was an opportunity for me to meet my fellow Youth Employment UK Ambassadors and other inspiring young people, from across the UK. 

During the weekend, I did some adventure activities (whooh zip wire) and I also took part in numerous workshops. My favourite was about democracy. It was a good opportunity to gain an understanding of why young people don't vote and why we should vote. The main reasons revolved around lack of information,to make an informed voting decision, and apathy towards politicians. 

I also learnt about the StepUptoServe Campaign, which is a new campaign to get 50% of young people doing something to help their community. As a group of young people, we already thought we were doing this but this needs to be recognised more in the media. This campaign hopes to ingrain volunteering into our culture through instilling volunteering in primary schools. 

To find out more about UK Youth: http://www.ukyouth.org/