Testimonials
The people best placed to describe a Project B3 session are the ones who ran it. Here's what they've told us.
Working with B3 tonight was an amazing experience! Teaching kids about internet safety is so important. I wish I'd had an opportunity to learn these things when I was younger!
— Project B3 Student Leader
I had an amazing time working with Project B3 tonight! We got to help teach kids about being safe on the internet and they all seemed to be really excited and learned a lot.
— Project B3 Student Leader
Being a student leader for Project B3 really made me feel like we were changing the lives of young kids starting out on the internet. B3 is a positive group that shows the ways students can mistreat the internet, but also a way to use it in a positive manner. I hope with our help and the B3 leaders, we will make the internet a safer place.
— Project B3 Student Leader
We don't teach our toddlers "stranger danger" after they've already encountered a stranger, do we? No. We prepare them before it happens, because the world is full of strangers. Well, now the world is full of digital devices, and with them their own set of problems and dangers. Project B3: Be Safe. Be Smart. Be Kind. is designed to start the discussion about digital responsibility in a fun and informal way, and to arm young people with simple tools to help guide them in the right direction as they begin using technology on a social basis. It is imperative to change the way kids think about using technology on a social scale, and to create an environment that is open and supportive in what is often a misguided and secretive arena.
— Junior High School Counselor
Why the student leaders keep coming back
The pattern in these quotes isn't an accident. Almost every student leader says a version of the same thing: I wish someone had taught me this earlier.
That's the whole design. A ten-year-old will absorb a rule from a thirteen-year-old that they'd argue with for a week if an adult delivered it — and the thirteen-year-old, having had to explain it out loud to a room, ends up holding the standard more firmly than they did before. The session teaches in both directions.
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