Rachel's Challenge

An evening event for students, families and community

Rachel’s Challenge, a national education outreach program named after Rachel Scott, the first victim in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, stops at Lakeridge Middle School on Tuesday, April 12.   Immediately after the tragedy, her father Darrell began to speak around the nation and used writings and drawings from Rachel's many diaries to illustrate the need for a kinder, more compassionate nation.  Her acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries have become the foundation for one of the most life-changing school programs in America.

Rachel's Challenge exists to inspire, equip and empower every person to create a permanent positive culture change in their school, business and community by starting a chain reaction of kindness and compassion.

Powerful video and audio footage of Rachel's life and the Columbine tragedy holds students spell-bound during a one hour school presentation that motivates them to a positive change in the way they treat others. This is followed by a separate interactive 90 minute training session involving both adult and student leaders that shows how to sustain the momentum created by the assembly. The assembly creates the “want to” or desire for positive change. The training session teaches the “how to” and ensures that the positive impact will continue.

A special evening presentation is scheduled for parents and community leaders. This session is similar to the assembly program that students will experience and ends with a specific challenge to parents and community leaders to show how they can reinforce the decisions youth are making.