What It's Like

Other Schools In the Mix
So far over 43,000 schools have participated in Mix It Up over the years! Read their stories to see what made them move across the line on Mix It Up at Lunch Day!

Mix It Up 2007
On Nov. 13, millions of students at over 10,000 schools nationwide participated in the sixth annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day. Here are reports from our correspondents at locations across the country.

Prior years:
Mix It Up 2006
Mix It Up 2005
Mix It Up 2004

Mix It Up Action Projects
Students know better than anyone what the social boundaries are like in their schools and communities -- and bringing down the walls between different groups requires student involvement.

That's why the Mix It Up Grants Program gives away thousands of dollars each year to student-led activist projects. In 2005, we supported 70 projects from across the country with $33,250 in total funding.

• Fifteen-year-old Tyler McCall used his Mix It Up grant to cover the cost of food and promotional materials for dialogue groups -- his idea, based on past experience, of what might most help students overcome social boundaries in his rural North Carolina community.
• Eighteen-year-old Shira Beer used her Mix It Up grant to sponsor Diversity Week at her New York high school, which she described as diverse, but segregated.
• Shanae Peoples used her Mix It Up grant to bridge the rural/urban divide through an ongoing exchange between her Baltimore classmates and classes from the Orchard School and Vilas Middle School in rural Alstead, New Hampshire.
• Annie Savarese, a senior at Carnegie-Mellon University, used her Mix It Up grant to launch a music program that brought together area middle and high school students. The program is a bridge-builder, bringing together people whose paths otherwise would not likely cross.