
The Peace Run team enters Hawking STEAM 1 in Chula Vista along with student runners for the first Peace Run school event in this region since 2019.

Hawking 1 teacher Tawny DeAlva is a great friend to the Peace Run and was highly involved in planning the activities of the student assembly.

Acting out short skits to demonstrate how our simple everyday actions can help us to increase the peace.

We had a very active Peace Run ceremony at Finney Elementary school at their beautiful outdoor assembly area.

Several teachers, local leaders, and members of the Superintendent's office addressed the students to show their support. Mr. Turner led the Peace Tree planting after the ceremony.

Shout-out to the Montgomery High Pep Band and Pep Squad! They brought great energy and enthusiasm to the ceremony.

Torchbearer recipient Michelle Posada makes a poignant speech about the connection between peace, the natural environment, and individual well-being. She is a parent volunteer who had two children at the school. Her youngest child will graduate this year. She created the vibrant Finney School Garden from what was previously a field of weeds.

Another short, fun skit to demonstrate how small actions can either help or hinder peace in our lives.

Dr. Beverly Prange, Principal of Finney Elementary, congratulates student recipients of the Torch Bearer award.

Time for another song led by students and accompanied by Mark Keehmer, Director of VAPA for the local School District.

Dr. Debra McLaren (Director of Leadership Development, Equity, and Access at the Chula Vista school district) read a Langston Hughes poem and offered a poignant speech.

Students created several vibrant artwork banners, each titled with the word Peace in a different language.