Harmony 2024
Co-Creating Tomorrow
Co‐Creating Tomorrow is a pioneering school-level international youth conference held by The Global Education & Leadership Foundation. This youth conference brings together middle & high school students from India and overseas for a series of competitions and workshops, with the objective of searching for social, action-oriented leadership talent.
Harmony provides growth opportunities to today's youth, along with providing them a platform to discover themselves through Innovative Sustainability competitions like the Youth Leader Competition, Start-up Business projects called Company of the Year Competition, Reel to Real and Magic with Colours to bring change in the world. This unique youth conference for middle and high school students showcases their strengths, their different lived experiences, areas for growth, levels of demonstrated leadership, and unique passions and interests.
The finalists will be asked to compete in the 2024 National Final. The details will be shared closer to the date. These competitions are our annual endeavor to identify leadership potential and honor today’s youth for their outstanding acts of community service, lending voice to action, and bringing positive change in our communities.
Youth Leader Competition
The Youth Leader Competition, an initiative of The Global Education & Leadership Foundation, was launched in 2009 with the mission to recognise exceptional leadership skills in school students as well as honour them for their outstanding contribution to society. The Youth Leader Competition is a year-long student engagement programme to identify exceptional talent with an emphasis on ethical, altruistic, and action-oriented leadership. The vision of the competition is to promote social entrepreneurship and leadership by enabling school students to initiate change and make a sustainable impact on society. tGELF takes pride in the varied issues and causes that the young change-makers have identified and adopted.
In keeping with tGELF’s vision for sustainable change, the themes for Youth Leader 2024 have been taken from the Global Goals for Sustainable Development created by the UN and adopted by more than 190 countries, with India being one of them. The Goals have been adopted to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda.
tGELF remains steadfast in upholding its mission and vision, which includes promoting altruism and fostering leadership qualities in youth. We as an organization, encourage the students to be participants and solution drivers for the challenges they identify in their communities.
The projects undertaken for Youth Leader 2024 can be from any of the SDGs, however, we suggest focusing on those listed below:
tGELF/ JA India LEAD Company of the Year Competition (CoYC)
The tGELF/JA India LEAD Company of the Year Competition, is in partnership with the US based Junior Achievement WorldWide with the mission to create an entrepreneurial mindset and work readiness in the youth of today. Through this curriculum and competition, we seek to empower the youth to become problem solvers and job creators instead of job seekers. tGELF/JA India LEAD CoY Competition 2024 is open to students of Grades 9-12 from tGELF member schools. It activates start-up skills and encourages students to create innovative entrepreneurial business projects in both product and service businesses.
The business projects can range from for-profit to social entrepreneurship plans. Students will compete at the intra school level where they showcase their work, receive feedback and make progress. The selected projects from each school will be sent to tGELF where they move to the regional level before the shortlisted finalists will compete at the national level. tGELF will hold regional competitions for the participating student companies to help select the national finalists. tGELF endeavours to provide coaching from professionals to the school teams. Industry experts are invited to hold workshop sessions for the students on multiple aspects of business. Each student company can be mentored by the previous years’ Coyc finalists.
The annual recognition event for the top student companies is held during the Finale in Harmony which includes a gala award ceremony. The finalists share their experiences and ideas as well as hear from notable public figures.
Event Highlights
JA CoYC India National Finals 2023
The tGELF/JA India LEAD Company of the Year Competition India National Finals is hosted by tGELF/JA India every year. Students from all across India compete at the intra school level where they showcase their work, receive feedback and make progress. Industry experts are invited to hold workshop sessions for the students on multipe aspects of business. The students' business projects can range from for-profit to social entrepreneurship plans. Students gain business startup, financial and presentation skills. Through this engagement, students realize that their acquired skills address real needs and have real life opportunities.
Past Winners
Winner
Green Pages
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Nungambakkam, Chennai
First Runner Up
Afra Thrifty
Maharaja Sawai Bhavani Singh School, Jaipur
Second Runner Up
Eco Twill
Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
Past Jury
For information on how to participate, please reach out to ContactUs@tgelf.org
Reel to Real
The Motion Picture Competition
MAGIC with Colours
Art for Voice Competition
Amidst the COVID pandemic, social isolation became a constant reality, and face-to-face interactions were substituted with screen interactions. While criticism is directed towards social media and entertainment content for its perceived lack of substance, tGELF sees an opportunity to utilize this platform for positive impact. Through the Real to Reel competition, students are encouraged to craft short films on various subjects, aiming to educate and motivate audiences.
Our theme this year is Dreams in Colour.
We encourage students to explore the aspirations, dreams, and challenges of the next generation in shaping the future, expressing emotions and concepts. Teams should consider criteria such as originality, creativity, theme development, technical quality, and time while brainstorming ideas and filming their projects.
Awards
● Individual Awards and Certificates for the winning team
●Certificate of participation for all participants
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire, and motivate. In the hands of young people its capabilities are endless which is why tGELF is committed to ensuring that art remains a pillar in all children's education as a tool to creatively convey what words often cannot. Through the MAGIC with COLOURS competition, students are encouraged to create art works of any physical medium that explores complex themes.
Our theme this year is Harmony With AI.
We encourage students to investigate the future of artificial intelligence in enhancing human life, addressing ethical considerations, and imagining a world where humans and AI coexist beneficially. Students should consider criteria such as composition and skill, usage of colors, originality, and creativity.
Awards
● Individual Awards and Certificates for the winning team
●Certificate of participation for all participants
Past Highlights
Past Highlights
JA CoYC India National Finals 2023
The tGELF/JA India LEAD Company of the Year Competition India National Finals is hosted by tGELF/JA India every year. Students from all across India compete at the intra school level where they showcase their work, receive feedback and make progress. Industry experts are invited to hold workshop sessions for the students on multipe aspects of business. The students' business projects can range from for-profit to social entrepreneurship plans. Students gain business startup, financial and presentation skills. Through this engagement, students realize that their acquired skills address real needs and have real life opportunities.
Winners
Jury