For the Challenge, "Students will.choose one civics topic from a list of options, receive instructions, and then produce a creative video on that topic, three minutes or less in length. In 2020, the O'Connor Institute launched the O'Connor Civics Challenge, a national competition for 6th - 9th grade students. Thousands of viewers from across the country and around the world have logged on to participate in the Constitution Series.Ĭamp O'Connor Civics Challenge O'Connor Civics Challenge O’Connor U programs provide a critical depth of understanding on our system of self-government, history and culture.Ĭonstitution Series: Equality And Justice For All įree, online forums bring nationally renowned scholars and historians to discuss issues of constitutional rights, racial equality and related topics, while providing an interactive forum for civil dialogue, including audience Q&A. Launched in 2020, O'Connor U consists of free, online, multi-generation educational programs which include civic engagement webinars, podcasts, interactive online lectures, and civics education digital experiences. The Institute's programs serve individuals of all ages from 50 states and six continents through its digital education platform, O'Connor U. In 2020, inspired by the wishes and directive of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute For American Democracy was launched to reflect the organization's commitment to advance and preserve American Democracy through civil discourse, civic engagement and civics education providing a spectrum of programs for multi-generational impact. In 2015, Justice O'Connor and the organization's Board of Directors authorized the renaming from O'Connor House to the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute to better represent the broader spectrum of programs and emphasis on civil discourse, civic engagement and civics education. In 2019, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Sandra Day O'Connor House. The O'Connor Institute For American Democracy conserves the house. The house, built in 1959 in Paradise Valley, Arizona, was painstakingly dismantled brick by brick and successfully reassembled in a new location in Tempe's Papago Park near the Arizona Historical Society in 2009 and named O'Connor House thereafter. The Institute, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, was originally founded as an effort to save and preserve the historic adobe home of Sandra Day O'Connor which was slated for demolition.
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