Yen Eco Leadership Camp

Working together to create change

Youth Environment Network 2013

Getting ready for high-ropes

Brainstorming 'change' ideas

Teaching Year 3 students about the environment 

This month, five Hurlstone students: Vincent Anthony, Julia Pham, Tanya Huang, Cindy Nguyen, and Melissa Tran, were selected to attend the Youth Environmental Network Eco-Leadership camp at Wooglemai Environmental Education Centre. The 4 day camp was hosted by OzGreen and about 30 students from 11 schools around the South West Sydney Region attended. The camp aimed to bring together a network of like-minded students who were passionate about working towards a sustainable planet and to help them develop quality leadership skills that would help them gain the ability to teach their peers.


The camp was an amazing experience for young people to make new connections, and meet people with the same passion to not only save the environment, but to share their knowledge to others. Workshops were run throughout the camp. These workshops helped the students gain more and better knowledge and understanding of environmental and social issues, including climate change and the inequality of resources around the world. Not only did they learn about environmental and social issues, but the workshops (facilitated by teachers and OzGreen-Sue Lennox) also taught them valuable leadership skills that would allow them to return to their schools and teach their own peers.
The camp provided them with many fun and memorable experiences. Getting to hear stories and ideas from other young people like them was truly inspiring and the workshops gave them the motivation to work hard as a team to make a change for the better.