Global Brunswick

Elijah Thomas ’31, Gregory Psaki ’30 |

 On October 22, boys at Brunswick had the Global Brunswick meeting. Global Brunswick is an event that is held every year at the Upper School led by D.I.A. members from the Upper School. It began in 2007 and has grown through the years.

Global Brunswick allows people to talk about different perspectives of the theme. The theme this year was: why or why not should people ban books? Attendees participated in activities such as, disagree or agree, and fishbowl. In addition, people were put into small groups to share different perspectives. This year it was led by Jaden Montanez, Kaden Tate, Arnez Dowe, Jacob Pelham, Marcus Matitia and Sabir Garg. 

Overall, the people who attended learned a lot about different issues worldwide related to banning books and enjoyed themselves!

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