My QUEST Action
My action for my QUEST project was a workshop that I hosted with the other Ambassadors in the African American Male Achievement Student Leadership Council. We went to Seattle,Washington to host a Man Up conference. They requested our presence to assist them in hosting their First Man up conference since they are adopting the practices that we do in African American Male Achievement. We went to tour the different middle schools and high schools. This was very empowering to see other African American Males from a different state come together in solidarity and converse among each other about their own struggles. Most of the students that we visited came to the Man up conference that Saturday morning, where they were enlightened with the plethora of workshops that we planned for them. The theme of the whole event was about brotherhood and building bonds amongst ourselves. We received students from middle schools and the workshop that I did was called Crossing the Line. I would ask a question, is the question applied to you then you would cross the line if it did not then you would stay on the side you were originally on. The purpose of this game was to visually see the common struggles that we share and the differences we may also have. Knowing this will create brotherhood amongst the students that are in the room. When we asked the students about what crossing the line meant to them they believed that it meant that it was breaking a rule. We educated them saying that crossing the line could also mean going through different experiences where you need to persevere through different obstacles. Then we also made the connection of how crossing the line meant moving into the next chapter of one's life. Since most of the students were in the 8th grade we talked about the jump of going into high school and what that is like. Sharing all of our experiences really connected all of us together in one which we formed a brotherhood.