Here are just a few of the projects and challenges we are proud to share with you
Water, Wisdom & World Voices
A Global Creative Challenge for World Water Day
In celebration of World Water Day, Global Lighthouse Studios invites students around the world to participate in a simple but meaningful creative challenge inspired by one of our planet’s most vital resources—water.
Students are encouraged to create something that reflects the importance of water in their lives, communities, or cultures. This open-ended challenge allows young people to respond through the creative medium that inspires them most.
Students can respond through:
🎨 Artwork or design
🎶 Music, rhythms, or sound creations
✍️ Poetry or storytelling
📹 Short videos sharing why water matters in their community
Submissions will be accepted through March 31 by posting student work and tagging Global Lighthouse Studios.
Selected creations will be featured in the Global Lighthouse Studios World Water Day Showcase, celebrating youth creativity and highlighting student voices advocating for sustainability and the protection of clean water.
Inspiration
As part of this challenge, Global Lighthouse Studios founder Donna Guerin shares a poem originally written with students inspired by United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
Recently, this poem was reimagined using an AI music tool to explore how emerging technologies can transform poetry into song—demonstrating how creativity and innovation can work together to amplify student voices.
Listen to the song here:
https://drive.google.com/.../1hmFXlBi6LxQ.../view...
Why It Matters
When young people express their ideas through music, art, and storytelling, they do more than learn about global issues.
They begin to see themselves as voices for change—helping protect and shape the future of our shared world.
If you'd like, I can also help you add one small section that connects this challenge to SDG 6 and classroom learning, which makes the page much stronger for educators and schools.
Racing to the Moon
Inspired by Formula 1 and sponsored by Copernic Space
Racing to the Moon
A Global Lighthouse Studios Student Digital Art Initiative
Global Lighthouse Studios is excited to launch Racing to the Moon, a student digital art initiative where creativity meets speed, imagination, and the future of exploration.
At a time when global events remind us how interconnected our world truly is, we remain mindful of the challenges many communities are experiencing. The recent decisions to cancel the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix highlight how quickly circumstances can change.
While motorsport celebrates speed, innovation, and international collaboration, moments like these also remind us of the importance of reflection, compassion, and global awareness.
Through creativity, young people can process the world around them while imagining new possibilities for the future.
The Project
Global Lighthouse Studios is launching Racing to the Moon, a student digital art initiative where creativity meets speed, imagination, and the spirit of exploration.
Inspired by the global energy of Formula One and the bold cosmic visual language of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, students are invited to design digital artworks imagining futuristic race vehicles traveling across lunar landscapes.
Through this creative challenge, students explore the intersection of technology, design, art, and imagination, while sharing their visions for what the future of exploration might look like.
The Challenge
Students are invited to create digital artwork imagining:
Futuristic racing vehicles designed for space
Lunar landscapes transformed into racetracks
Innovative technologies that could power the exploration of the future
Artistic interpretations of speed, motion, and the cosmos
The project encourages students to think creatively about innovation, design, and the limitless possibilities of the future.
At Global Lighthouse Studios, we believe creativity is one of the most powerful tools young people have to explore big ideas and shape the world around them.
Students don’t just watch the future.
They design it.
Why This Matters
Projects like Racing to the Moon help students see how creativity and innovation are connected.
By combining art, technology, design, and storytelling, students begin to understand how ideas move from imagination to real-world possibility. Through creative exploration, they build confidence, curiosity, and the ability to think about the future in new ways.
These experiences encourage students to see themselves not only as artists, but also as innovators, designers, and explorers.
📅 Student artwork submissions are due April 30.
Imagine the Future
Creativity begins with a question. As students design their artwork for Racing to the Moon, we invite them to imagine bold possibilities for the future of exploration.
Students might consider questions like:
🚀 What might a race vehicle designed for space look like?
How would it travel across the Moon’s surface or navigate the challenges of space?
🌙 What would a lunar racetrack look like?
Would racers speed through craters, glide across glowing lunar dust, or race beneath the stars?
✨ What technologies might power exploration in the future?
Could vehicles be powered by solar energy, artificial intelligence, or inventions that don’t exist yet?
Students are encouraged to let their imaginations lead the way. There is no single right answer—only new ideas waiting to be discovered.
Through creativity, young people explore possibilities, share their visions, and remind us that the future is something we can all help shape.
Racing to the Moon
Inspired by Formula 1 and sponsored by Copernic Space
🌍 🏅🌎 GLS Winter Games Student Art Challenge
Cheer for Your Country!
As the Winter Games begin, GLS students are stepping into the global spotlight through creativity and school spirit!
Students are invited to take part in our GLS Winter Games Art Challenge, where they will create a poster cheering for a country of their choice and highlighting their favorite Winter Olympic sport.
🎨 How Students Can Participate
Students can choose the format that inspires them most:
Draw a picture of their favorite winter sport
Take a photo of themselves acting out or representing the sport
Design a fun caricature of themselves as a Winter Olympic athlete
Each poster should include:
The name, colors, or symbols of the country they are cheering for
A visual of their chosen winter sport
A cheer message like “Go Team USA!”
📸 From Posters to a Global Collage
Teachers will collect photos of student posters, and GLS will combine them into a digital Winter Games Collage. This collage will celebrate the creativity, cultures, and global spirit of our students — just like the Olympics celebrate countries coming together through sport.
🌍 Why It Matters
This project helps students:
Express cultural pride and global awareness
Connect creativity with real-world global events
Feel part of a worldwide community through art
Together, we’re showing that while athletes compete on the world stage, our students shine through creativity, unity, and school spirit.
Stay tuned for the GLS Winter Games Collage coming soon!
GLS Winter Games Student Art Challenge
🌍 GLS Play-Doh Animal Worlds Challenge
Build • Shape • Animate • Share Your Voice
Global Lighthouse Studios invites students from kindergarten through high school to unleash their creativity in the Play-Doh Animal Worlds Challenge! Students design animals and their habitats using Play-Doh, then bring them to life through storytelling or optional stop-motion animation.
This hands-on challenge encourages imagination, problem-solving, and student voice while connecting art, science, and media creation. Participate in a global showcase, share your students’ work, and celebrate creativity with classrooms around the world!
📅 Submissions Due: March 1
📝 Register Here: Sign Up to Participate
Email submissions to: globallighthousestudios@gmail.com and register using the link
GLS Play-Doh Animal Worlds Challenge
🌍✨ Exciting News! ✨🌍
Global Lighthouse Studios is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Believe Inc. joining forces to create an innovative, impact-driven video game experience where storytelling, creativity, and global connection come to life! 🎮💡
We’re inviting students across the Global Lighthouse Studios family to take part in a special Design Challenge:
🏗️ Design the Global Lighthouse Studios Building for our upcoming game!
🎨 Get creative — your design could become a landmark in the virtual world we’re building together!
📸 Submit your entry in digital form (or take a photo of your hand-drawn masterpiece) and send it to Global Lighthouse Studios by December 31, 2025.
🏆 Winners in each age category will see their school represented in the game — complete with student avatars wearing GLS T-shirts standing proudly outside the winning design!
This collaboration with Believe Inc., founded by visionary storyteller Tammy Hickey, represents a shared mission: harnessing the power of creativity, storytelling, and innovation to inspire real-world impact and compassion. 🌟
Let’s build the future — together. One story, one design, one dream at a time. 💚
🌍✨ Through My Window: Stories From Where I Stand ✨🎙️
Global Lighthouse Studios is excited to launch a 6-week creative podcasting journey where students (K–12) share their stories of home, community, and perspective with the world.
📖 Students will build skills in:
Storytelling
Writing
Podcasting
Global Perspectives
🎧 Final project: A 3–5 minute original student podcast episode!
🗓️ Registration Deadline: October 10th
👩🎓 Open to ages K–12 worldwide
👉 Don’t miss this chance to amplify authentic youth voices from across the globe!
Make A Change
This group of students from SMK Muara Tuang school in Malaysia wrote and recorded a beautiful song related to helping our planet. We worked in collaboration with our partner The David Z Foundation. Click on the button to watch the full video
Water is Life
This international project connected over 90 classrooms across 6 continents. We spent six weeks learning more about SDG#6 Clean Water and Sanitation through the lens of music and the arts. We finished up with a concert in the Metaverse by Paulie Z of the David Z Foundation. Click on the link below to listen to a song that was written by participants in the project and performed by Daniel Roeder, CAO of the DZF
Global Lighthouse Studios is working with four Chicago Schools implementing the Medley Music Program. Here are three videos we did in the Spring of 2024. We are excited to be partnering with these schools on a multi year project! This was a collaboration with the David Z Foundation and special recognition of Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation and their contribution of providing instruments for the video with the Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
The Way of the Righteous
This group of students from Afik School in Israel wrote and recorded a powerful song incorporating SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. This song features two artists Adi Argalazi and Jake Faun. We worked in collaboration with our partner The David Z Foundation. Click on the button to watch the full video
Kindness is Beautiful
This group of over 200 second graders wrote a song all about Kindness! This song features artist and singer Teresa Hui and has a special guest appearance by councilman Justin Brannan. We were featured on Born This Way Foundation’s #channelkindness You can read the full article here Story and click on the link below to watch and listen to the song
Help Yourself
This original song was written and recorded in partnership with the David Z Foundation and the students and staff at Gardens Commercial High School in Cape Town. This song features local South African artist Zolani Mahola aka The One Who Sings. The David Z Foundation traveled to Cape Town to film this original song and the results are amazing! Enjoy this song that talks about the importance of education and taking care of your mental and physical well-being. Click on the button to watch the full video
No Mas Probeza
This original song was written and recorded on location in Buenos Aires, Argentina in partnership with the David Z Foundation. The students of Modern School, Paulie Z and Daniel Roeder from the David Z Foundation and their teacher Marcela Villan were contributors to the final cut. This song is about raising awareness for Poverty around the world. Click on the link to hear the full song
Time To Be Well
This original song was written and recorded on location in Cape Town, South Africa in collaboration with Globally Empowered and the David Z Foundation. The students of Athwood Primary and featured artists LNS (Nazz Badi and Sesethu Sera August)This song is about raising awareness for Poverty around the world. Click on the link to hear the full song
Global Lighthouse Studios is working with four Chicago Schools implementing the Medley Music Program. Here are four videos we did in the Spring of 2023 with 8th graders. We are excited to be partnering with these schools on a multi year project!
Global Lighthouse Studios is working with four Chicago Schools implementing the International Medley Music Program. Here are four videos we did in the Winter of 2023 with Kindergartners. We are excited to be partnering with these schools on a multi year project!
116 Uganda
One of Global Lighthouse Studios classrooms is located in the Soroti district in Uganda. These young musicians and artists astound us with their beautiful artwork and music they produce. They are currently trying to work with Global Lighthouse Studios to get a school built dedicated to Music and the Arts that focuses on the UN Sustainable Development Goals of 2030. If you are interested in donating, click on the link below