International BaccalaureateWorld Student Conference 2017

July 30–August 5, 2017

“Defining and Defying Boundaries”

Ground Rules1. Travel together—walk with a chaperone. 2. Lock up your belongings.3. Always wear your name badge. 4. Be on time.5. Get rest. 6. Enjoy yourself—have fun! Code of Conduct and DisciplineStudents at the IBWSC engage in a fun and challenging academic experience as active participants in the learning process. To ensure that we are fully dedicated to their academic and educational mission, students are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct submitted upon registration. Public SafetyWhile on campus, please call the Department of Public Safety at (585) 275-3333 in case of emergency. “Blue light” phones are located throughout campus and will call directly to campus security.

Dining LocationsAll your meals, unless specified in the agenda below, will be in Danforth Dining Center at the times designated. Here are other locations you can visit during free time for snacks, coffee, etc., where you would use your personal money.

Starbucks, Wilson Commons:Monday–Thursday 8:00 am–8:00 pm Friday 8:00 am–5:00 pm Saturday–Sunday CLOSED

The Pit, Wilson Commons:Monday–Friday 11:00 am–2:00 pmSaturday–Sunday CLOSED Peet’s @ Wegmans Hall:Monday–Thursday 8:00 am–2:00 pm Friday 8:00 am–1:00 pm Saturday–Sunday CLOSED Grab N’ Go, Frederick Douglass Building:Monday–Thursday 11:00 am–7:00 pm Friday 11:00 am–2:00 pm Saturday–Sunday CLOSED

Library HoursRush Rhees LibraryMonday–Thursday 8:00 am–9:00 pmFriday 8:00 am–5:00 pmSaturday 12:00 pm–5:00 pmSunday 12:00 pm–5:00 pm

Campus BookstoreBarnes and Noble 1305 Mt. Hope Avenue, College Town Monday–Saturday 10:00 am–9:00 pm Sunday 11:00 am–6:00 pm

Contact InformationDuring the conference, non-emergency questions can be directed to Davin Sweeney at (585) 305-6281. Check-Out Day: August 5Students may check out and move out between 8:00 am and noon. Students should have all their personal belongings packed and rooms organized before checking out. Those who need to leave before 8:00 should notify their chaperone.

At the time of check-out, students will notify their chaperone that they are ready to leave. The chaperone will do a room check and sign off on each student’s check-out sheet to indicate that the room is in good condition and that all personal materials have been packed. Before students are authorized to leave, they must give the check-out personnel their signed check-out sheet, room key, conference card, linens, and fan.

A continuous airport shuttle will be available on check-out day from 4:00 am to 12:00 pm. Those traveling by bus or train are encouraged to make taxi arrangements to designated stations. The Greyhound bus station is located at 186 Cumberland Street. The Rochester Amtrak station is located at 320 Central Avenue. Students departing outside of designated shuttle times will need to make other arrangements for transportation from campus, unless we communicate with you directly. Cab fare is approximately $15, depending on the number of people and luggage. We suggest using Apple Transportation at (585) 427-7330 for those arrangements.

Room KeyThere is a $125 fee for lost or unreturned keys and/or $50 for lost or unreturned conference cards. This will be billed directly to the student at the end of the program. Please be sure to return your dorm room key and conference card at check-out.

Internet AccessThe network UR_RC_Guest is available for you to connect to free of charge. Please note that it is not a secure network, so be careful when sending private or sensitive information.

CONFERENCE AGENDA Saturday, July 29 15:00–24:00 Early arrival student check-inSusan B. Anthony Hall 18:00–19:00 DinnerDanforth19:00–21:00 Free timeTBD21:00 Return to residence hallSusan B. Anthony

Sunday, July 307:30–9:00 Breakfast Danforth 8:00–16:00 Student arrival, airport shuttle running, registration open Susan B. Anthony (activities for early arrivals in Susan B. Anthony)

11:30–13:00 LunchDanforth15:00–17:00 GAT leader meetingDewey 2-110D16:00–17:00 Chaperone meetingDewey 2-110E17:00–18:30 DinnerDanforth19:00–20:00 GAT Session 1Classrooms20:00–21:00 Icebreakers Eastman Quad21:00–21:45 Residence rulesResidence hall

Monday, July 317:00 Wake upResidence hall7:30–8:30 BreakfastDanforth9:00–10:45 Plenary 1: John Harris, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Interfaith Chapel of POLITICO 11:00–12:15 GAT Session 2Classrooms12:30–13:15 LunchDanforth

13:30–16:00 Skills Session1: Heather LaytonMay Room Artist and Activist16:00–17:00 College Admissions 101 Dewey 1-10117:00–18:30 DinnerDanforth19:00–21:50 ActivityTBD21:50 Return to residence hallResidence hall

Tuesday, August 17:00 Wake upResidence hall7:30–8:30 BreakfastDanforth9:00–10:45 Plenary 2: Dallas Goldtooth Douglass Ballroom Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network11:00–12:15 Skills Session 2Classrooms12:30–13:30 LunchDanforth13:45–15:15 Plenary 3: Dr. John J. Treanor, MDDouglass Ballroom Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology15:30–17:30 GAT Session 3Classrooms17:45–18:00 Bus to Frontier FieldBack of Rush Rhees Library18:00–19:00 DinnerFrontier Field19:05–21:30 Rochester Red Wings baseball game Frontier Field21:45 Return to residence hallResidence hall

Wednesday, August 27:00 Wake upResidence hall7:30–8:30 BreakfastDanforth9:00–10:45 Plenary 4: Paul ChappellDouglass Ballroom Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation11:00–12:30 GAT Session 4Classrooms

12:30–13:00 LunchDanforth 13:15–20:00 Trip to Niagara Falls21:15 Return to residence hallResidence hallThursday, August 37:00 Wake upResidence hall7:30–8:30 BreakfastDanforth9:00–10:30 Skills Session 3: David Sanchez and Maria Engels, Douglass Ballroom M.K. Gandhi Institute 10:45–12:15 Skills Session 3, continuedClassrooms12:30–13:30 LunchDanforth14:00–15:15 Plenary 5: Imam Latif and Rabbi SarnaInterfaith Chapel The Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership, New York University 15:30–17:00 GAT Session 5Classrooms17:00–18:00 DinnerDanforth18:00–19:00 Free time19:00–21:00 Talent showDouglass Ballroom21:15 Return to residence hallResidence hallFriday, August 47:00 Wake up Residence hall7:30–8:30 BreakfastDanforth9:00–10:00 GAT Session 6Classrooms and Douglass Ballroom10:15–12:15 Free time and/or GAT Session 6, continuedClassrooms and Douglass Ballroom12:15–13:15 Lunch Danforth

13:30–15:15 GAT PresentationsDouglass Ballroom15:30–17:00 GAT Session 7Classrooms17:00–18:00 DinnerDanforth 18:00–20:00 Free time20:00–22:00 DanceDouglass Ballroom22:00 Return to residence hallResidence hall

Saturday, August 5 Ongoing as needed Departure shuttlesResidence hall7:00 Wake upResidence hall7:30–8:30 BreakfastDanforth8:00–12:00 Residence Hall check-outSusan B. Anthony

Speakers Keynote speaker: John HarrisCo-founder and Editor-in-Chief of POLITICO

Our keynote speaker is John Harris, co-founder and editor-in-chief of POLITICO, the must-read newspaper and website for DC power-players. Since its launch in January 2007, POLITICO has become one of the country’s most-visited news sites and has drawn widespread attention nationally and internationally for its efforts to create a new editorial

and business model to sustain robust journalism in an era of radical change for the media industry. Harris brought two decades of experience from The Washington Post to POLITICO, and, together with co-founder Jim VandeHei, a focused editorial vision of politics and policy.

Dallas GoldtoothCampaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network

Dallas Goldtooth is the national Keep It In The Ground campaigner for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He has traveled extensively across North America as a public speaker and organizer, addressing the needs and issues that affect Indigenous peoples today. He is a film producer, actor,

and comedian. He co-founded The 1491s, an all-indigenous social media group that uses comedy and satire as a means of critical social dialogue. He is also a Dakota language activist and cultural teacher within his Dakota communities.

Paul ChappellPeace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Paul K. Chappell graduated from West Point, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a Captain. Part African-American, part Asian, and part Caucasian, Chappell grew up in Alabama with a father who suffered severe trauma from combat roles in both the Korean and Vietnam wars. Growing up in a violent

household, Chappell has sought answers to the issues of war and peace, rage and trauma, out of which he has forged a philosophy of vision, purpose, and hope. Chappell serves as the Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He lectures and teaches across North America and internationally on peace leadership and peace literacy. He is the author of the seven-book Road to Peace series about ending war, “waging peace,” the art of living, and our common humanity. He teaches peace literacy skills that include understanding and healing aggression, practicing the three elements of universal respect, and maintaining empathy in challenging situations.

Imam Khalid LatifMuslim Chaplain, Co-Founder, and Senior Fellow at the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership, New York University

After attending NYU as an undergraduate and serving as the president of the Islamic Center student organization on campus, Latif began to serve as Muslim chaplain to both NYU and the New York City Police Department. At NYU, he conducted multifaith work with Rabbi Yehuda Sarna.

Inspired by the thousands of students in religious services at NYU, Latif was seeking to create an opportunity to work across faiths. Latif, working closely with Rabbi Sarna, Chelsea Clinton, and Linda Mills, founded OM in response to NYU students who sought opportunities to cross faith boundaries. As an adjunct faculty member of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, he and Sarna now co-teach a course at NYU titled “Multifaith Leadership in the 21st Century,” a course that is offered in the minor in multifaith and spiritual leadership.

Rabbi Yehuda SarnaJewish Chaplain, Co-Founder, and Senior Fellow at the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership, New York University

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is the University Chaplain at New York University and the Executive Director for the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU. Ordained at Yeshiva University, Rabbi Sarna believes that there is no contradiction between being deeply rooted in one’s own

tradition, and being relevant in the public sphere. As a faculty member of the Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service, Rabbi Sarna established the first academic minor in Multifaith Leadership at any major research university. In 2012, he co-founded the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership with Chelsea Clinton, Linda Mills, and Imam Khalid Latif. In 2013, the Institute released a film about the unlikely friendship between Rabbi Sarna and the Imam which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was selected by the US State Department as one of the American documentaries screened through embassies and consulates around the world. Rabbi Sarna is married to Dr. Michelle Waldman Sarna, a developmental psychologist who is an expert on the transition to adulthood. They have six children.

Heather LaytonArtist and Activist, University of Rochester

Heather Layton is an interdisciplinary artist and Senior Lecturer of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rochester, where she teaches courses in painting, interdisciplinary media, performance art and social intervention. She received an MFA in painting from the State University of New York, New Paltz, in 2002 and a BFA in art

education from Syracuse University in 1997. Her work has been exhibited in over 25 exhibitions in the past five years and she given artist talks in countries including Oman,

India, Turkey, Slovakia, Hungary, South Korea, Austria, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. In 2015, she started the Common Sense Collective with her husband and collaborator, Brian Bailey, as an all-encompassing initiative to find common ground between people from seemingly different backgrounds through artistic exchange.

David SanchezYouth Program Coordinator, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence

David Sanchez is passionate about Restorative Practices, mindfulness, and urban development. He works at Monroe High School as part of the Institute’s School Climate Transformation Project as well as other education and youth projects in Rochester. David sees youth as catalysts for social

change and believes that working to harness their creative and critical thinking skills is the key to creating innovative leaders of the next generation.

Maria EngelsGandhi Service Fellowship Program Coordinator, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence

Maria grew up in Rochester, New York and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Clark University. After working for two years in central PA, Maria returned to Rochester in September 2015 and began volunteering at the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence; she was formally

hired later that year. Her work at the Gandhi Institute began with Restorative Practices at Monroe High School and has shifted to overseeing the Gandhi Service Fellowship Program, an opportunity for local collegiate students to integrate a service project with nonviolence. Maria is interested in exploring self-awareness and how it connects to nonviolence. A few of her greatest life experiences so far have been visiting the orphanage she was adopted from on multiple occasions, seeing the sunrise over the Grand Canyon with close friends, and a solo trip throughout Europe for two months. Her interests include reading, leadership awareness, traveling, working out, and coffee!

Dr. John J. Treanor, MDProfessor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Rochester

Dr. Treanor is a graduate of the University of Rochester Medical School and a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Vermont. He returned to the University of Rochester for Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and also trained at the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases,

NIH. His research interests are primarily focused on control of influenza with vaccines and antivirals, and on the safety and immunogenicity of vaccines for emerging infectious diseases.

AcknowledgementsA very special and particular thanks to our local IB educators, who are already balancing too much, are paid too little, and whose care for their students and the quality of education they receive is beyond noteworthy; it is a model for all to follow. We encourage each of you in attendance this week to thank all of your teachers now and for the rest of your life, whether they be here or back at home. They work so hard to help you become the wonderful adults you’ll surely be.

Office of College EnrollmentJon Burdick, Vice Provost and Dean of College Admission Isthier Chaudhury, Assistant DirectorKayon Ellis, Admissions CounselorMegan Latimer, Project Manager, Planning and EventsJason Nevinger, Regional Associate DirectorDavin Sweeney, Regional Senior Associate Director Karin Wilson, Executive Assistant to the Vice Provost EducatorsPaul Lasch, Teacher/IB Coordinator, Kenmore East High School, Tonawanda, NY Jason McLaughlin, GAT Program Director, teacher, Canandaigua Academy, Canandaigua, NY Theresa Sarkis-Kruse, Teacher, Wilson Magnet High School, Rochester, NY

A special thanks to the Western New York Consortium of IB Schools (WNYCIBS)!

International Baccalaureate OrganizationRoss Duran, World Student Conference Coordinator Laura Carrero Wellesley, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives A very special thanks to Dr. Siva Kumari, IB Director General, and Andrew Macdonald, Chief Schools Officer.

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Office of AdmissionsWallis Hall

P.O. Box 270251Rochester, NY 14627-0251

(585) 275-3221 • (888) 822-2256admit@admissions.rochester.edu

enrollment.rochester.edu@uribwsc17

@uradmissions