COMMUNITY EVENTS
Free or low cost Community Events and college courses are intended to provide background on the yearly topic and to touch on areas related to the February Conference that may not be covered in its three-day format. The views of our presenters are their own and may not represent those of the Camden Conference.
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UNA Maine Chapter To Celebrate UN Day on Saturday, October 21–FREE and OPEN to all (no pre-registration required)
October 21, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
UN Day is officially October 24, but we are holding our program on Saturday, October 21, from 1-3 PM at the Olin Concert Hall, Bates College, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. The national UNA-USA theme this year is “Global Goals, Local Leaders.” Our program will focus on Maine expressions of UN Sustainable Development Goal #4: Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education. To learn more about SDG #4 and all seventeen SDG’s, check out this link: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg4
Be sure to mark your calendars and come to hear from and engage with some exceptional Maine educational leaders, including Ekhlas Ahmed, “Make It Happen” Site Coordinator, Portland Public Schools; Kristie Clark, Principal, Longley School, Lewiston; Claude Rwaganje, Executive Director of Community Financial Literacy, Portland; and Martha Kempe, Head of Schools, Wayfinder Schools, Camden.
We are delighted to have the Camden Conference, https://www.camdenconference.org, and Bates College, http://www.bates.edu, as co-sponsors of this program.