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Top 10 Reasons to Join
- It's fun, exciting and creative - it captures the energy, enthusiasm and imaginations of participants of all ages.
- Students are encouraged to be creative, work cooperatively, develop leadership skills and become engaged in their own learning.
- The Coin-spiracy is a proactive program that provides positive options to negative behaviours, such as bullying, and addresses social responsibility issues in a way that youth find easy to understand.
- It is simple and tangible. Students can hold the coin, commit 3 kind acts, pass on the coin, track its travels and witness the multiplier effect of their kind action.
- The Coin-spiracy creates lasting positive effects on both the recipients of kind acts and on the group performing them.
- It raises self-esteem. Youth experience first hand how individual action can make a profound difference.
- The Coin-spiracy engages everyone and creates community. Schools and groups become more cohesive as they work towards a common goal and youth feel part of a larger global community of "agents for change."
- It supports students in meeting personal planning learning outcomes. Students develop skills in planning, decision-making, implementation as well as a sense of personal worth and potential as they track the results of their kind acts plan.
- The Coin-spiracy is flexible and provides an umbrella for a variety of school and youth group initiatives.
- It connects to curriculum. Students can use math skills to count pennies collected, use language skills to write stories and use mapping skills to track the coin's travels around the globe.
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