2026 EASTERN REGION AREA WORK DAY
WE WANT TO PUT SOME OF THE POWER IN THEIR HANDS!
As we prepare to welcome the Eastern Region for Area Work Day 2026, we don’t just want our young people to attend great workshops — we want them to help shape, lead and bring the experience to life.
Mothers, we need your help! Please start talking with your Teens and 8th graders about whether they might be interested in taking on a youth leadership role at Area Work Day.
PLAN • LEAD • INTRODUCE • INTERVIEW • MODERATE • FACILITATE • VOLUNTEER
Empowered Women, Empowering the Next Generation
FOR OUR TEENS
IAN MICHAEL BROCK
AI POWER
From Tech Consumer to Tech Producer
What if our Teens could learn to use AI not simply to find answers — but to build, create and open doors to opportunity? Young tech entrepreneur Ian Michael Brock of Dream Hustle Code will challenge our Teens to develop a tech-producer mindset and see AI as a creative, economic and leadership tool — not simply entertainment or a shortcut. In this hands-on workshop, Teens will explore how to communicate effectively with AI and begin seeing themselves as builders, creators and future leaders in the technology economy.
FOR OUR TEENS
EDUCATION POWER
Inside the Admissions Room.
What really happens when a college admissions committee sits down with an application? Our Teens won’t just hear about the process — they’ll get to step inside it. Working through mock student files alongside admissions professionals, Teens will examine how grades, course rigor, activities, essays, recommendations, personal story and institutional fit work together.
Would YOU admit this student?
STUDENT CASE STUDY
FOR OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS
IAN MICHAEL BROCK
ENTREPRENEURSHIP POWER
Entrepreneurship & Earning Income
What could you create with the skills you already have? Ian Michael Brock will help our Middle Schoolers begin thinking like entrepreneurs — identifying their talents, looking for problems those talents could help solve, and exploring how ideas can create value and opportunity. The goal is to help our young people recognize that they don’t have to wait until adulthood to begin thinking about how their skills, creativity and ideas can become something more.
EXPLORE DREAM HUSTLE CODE →
MIDDLE SCHOOL BREAKOUTS
ARTS AS POWER
Two Breakout Experiences. Two Ways to Find Your Voice.
Creativity can be a powerful way to discover who you are, tell your story and build confidence. Through two interactive Arts as Power breakouts, our Middle Schoolers will explore different ways to use their voices — through visual art and through performance.
KAMEIRAH JOHNSON — WORKSHOP PORTRAIT TO BE ADDED
“HAIR POWER: THE CROWN THAT GROWS FROM US” — ARTWORK TO BE ADDED
ARTS AS POWER · BREAKOUT 01
VISUAL ARTS
Art, Identity & the Power of Imagination
Art can do more than make something beautiful. It can tell a story about who you are, what you value and what makes you powerful. Our young artists will meet Kameirah Johnson, the 2026 National Doodle for Google winner, whose winning work, Hair Power: The Crown That Grows From Us, connects hair with family, culture, identity and resilience. With support from Andrea Achi and Eden Williams, Middle Schoolers will then turn the focus inward — using visual art to explore their own identities, ideas and creative voices.
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VISUAL ARTS EXPERIENCE
Featuring Kameirah Johnson
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MUSICAL THEATER EXPERIENCE
Own the Stage: Breath, Voice & Confidence Through Musical Theater
Featuring Cicily Daniels