leadership and presentations

• 2010 – Invited to offer a workshop for youth at the UN Youth Assembly in NY, August

• 2010 – Invited to attend the iEARN Conference in Barrie, Ontario, bringing educators and students together with a Virtual Congress supported by Intelius, July

• 2010 – Invited to meet with Ms. Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State to discuss youth activism and how to engage youth

• 2010 – Invited to organize and run workshops at schools in India to specifically engage youth in India to meet the MDGs

• 2010 – Invited to be an organizing member of The People Speak, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation to engage young people on the global issues that will shape their future.

• 2010 – Invited to be on the Conservations Sub-committee for the Town of Derry

• 2010 – Featured as an inspiration for youth on the Daily Gospel Reflection website

• 2010 – Invited to offer a workshop at the International Youth Camp Doha 2010

• 2010 – Invited to attend and hold workshop for youth at the UN Review Summit on MDGs, September 20-22, 2010, in New York City to take stock and chart a new course to engage youth on the MDGs

• 2010 – Invited to speak at four different workshops, for the month of January 2010, to address families from NH, ME, RI, CT, VT, and MA about family volunteering; events were held in different New England areas.

• 2010 – Invited to be an organizing partner for the WSA and WSYA events for the UN Global Forum on ICT and Development

• 2010 – Invited to talk at the TEDxTeen event in March 2010, in NY

• 2009 – Invited to be part of a tribe that includes leading designers and architects in the field of K-12 education to redesign the learning environment for the future, only student to represent students in grades K-12 in USA. Other members of this small tribe come from Biomimicry Guild, Gensler NY, Google, Planning Alliance, Interface Flor, ATSR Architects, Fanning Howey Ohio, HMC Architects, Lionakis Architects, McKee & Associates, SHW, Steed Hammond Paul, and WLC.

• 2009 – Invited, by InterfaceFLOR, to be a Keynote Speaker at the Educational Summit, A Tribal Gathering: Best Practices of the Best Minds in the Educational and Learning World, on December 14th & 15th in LaGrange, GA

• 2009 – Invited to be in the event planning committee and advisory board for the Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark, for October 2009, in Derry, NH

• 2009 – Invited by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to attend the TUNZA International Children's Conference to be held in Daejeon, Korea from August 17 - 20, 2009

• 2009 – Invited to be on Cogito.org for an interview and as a participant in a special forum event; Dylan will be on Cogito from June 5 - 22, 2009

• 2009 – Featured by The George Lucas Foundation as one of ten digital youth portrait for their Digital Generation Project; this project tells Dylan's story so that educators and parents can understand how kids learn, communicate, and socialize in very different ways than any previous generation.

• 2009 – Invited to the White House to receive President's Environment Award from President Obama; will attend awards in Washington, D.C.

• 2009 – Invited to attend the United Nations Global Forum on ICT and Development in Monterrey, Mexico.

• 2008 – Organized the event Amazing Hero Art at Gilbert H. Hood School to plant seeds of peace amidst children, to inspire them to Be Somebody; event featured fastest portrait artist, Rob Surette, who speed paints gigantic murals of historical figures and celebrities who have made a difference during their lives.

• 2008 – Organized Pinwheels for Peace program

• 2008 – Invited to be an online juror (one of 200 researchers, scientists, media experts and students from all over the world) for the Pirelli Award to select 2008 winners.

• 2008 – Invited to speak at a benefit concert held for Jayme's Fund for Social Justice.

• 2008 – Invited to attend the Just Peace Summit by We are Family Foundation.

• 2007 – Featured as one of the Best Practices in Global Education and Collaborative Technologies - Making the Connection publication by Taking it Global.

• 2007 – Featured as one of the Best Practices in Global Education and Collaborative Technologies at NECC Conference in Atlanta, 2007.

• 2007 – Invited to speak at a benefit concert held for Jayme's Fund for Social Justice.

• 2006 – Invited to speak at a benefit concert held for Jayme's Fund for Social Justice.

• 2005 – Presented to schools in Derry about the plight of coral reefs to raise funds to save the reefs.

• 2004 – Led a team of 9-12 years old in their quest to build an educational website for the October 2004 ThinkQuest Competition. Visit site »