08/20/2025
They’re back! For six weeks this summer, 72 multilingual and immigrant students 🧑🏼🎓👩🏽🎓 from all five boroughs joined the NYC Public Schools Global Leaders Academy 🏫. They met four days a week at 8:45 AM and began each morning with “Good Morning World” 🌍. Students researched a country they love, played its anthem, showed its flag, and shared its music 🎶 and food 🍲. Many students even gave bilingual presentations, proudly speaking in both English and their home languages. Those moments built confidence and gave everyone a chance to practice public speaking.
The program mixed classroom learning with real world experience. Students visited UN Headquarters and the Permanent Missions of 🇬🇭, 🇩🇪, 🇵🇹, 🇮🇩 and the 🇬🇧. They tackled projects from water pollution to mental health and explored tech gaps in the in a final presentation called “Merging Mankind, Connecting the Disconnected.” Aasha, Dahlia, Fatima, Hagnide, Namratha and Rosalys mapped needs, budgets and partnerships to close those gaps.
At the festive finale Zuhaa sang “Somewhere Only We Know,” Selma made paper bouquets 💐 for teachers 👨🏻🏫, and Fabrizio spoke about how photography 📸 helped him make friends. Namratha said it best, “If we accomplished so much in six weeks, imagine how much we can accomplish in a lifetime together.” The program is now in its third summer and graduates join a global network of 268 Global Leaders.
Congratulations to these brilliant students and to their teachers and educators 👏. United Nations Visitors Centre was honored to host you at the and our expert speakers loved your questions about the , and human rights.
Educators, as the school year approaches 🏫, consider bringing your class to the United Nations 🇺🇳. Plan your visit today at un.org/visit.
