Keystone Members Present National Project

For the National Project, the Gate City Keystone club decided they wanted to interview Nashua area adults to find out their opinions of Nashua teens.  In order for this to happen, each Keystone member first came up with five questions that they thought were pressing issues facing teens in the community of Nashua.  Once these questions were collected, as a group the Keystoners decided on the top ten questions that they wanted to present to the adults of their community.  Keystoners then went out and each interviewed 10 (with approximately 150 total) area adults.  Once all the adults were interviewed, Keystoners reviewed the interviews and highlighted the most intriguing or controversial comments that adults had made about Nashua area teens.  These quotes were then combined by question, and the findings, as well as facts about the positive things that Nashua area youth are doing to combat these stereotypes and opinions were prepared as a power point presentation that will be presented to approximately 150 people at the annual Dinner of Thanks at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua. 

Through this project, the Keystoners were shocked at the opinions that adults who they experience everyday had, and that there were such controversial and stereotypical things to say about the teenage population.   Many of the Keystoners were outraged that adults felt as they did, and vowed to continue their hard work and commitment to changing adult’s perceptions of them.

Click here for the PowerPoint Presentation created by the Keystone Club.

For more information about Keystone, please feel free to contact Courtney Hosking, Teen Director, at 603-883-0523 or chosking@bgcn.com.

Posted November 27, 2007.