2017 City of Tempe Diversity Awards winner Jay Scherotter
Date2017
MediumPaper
Dimensions10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2017.19.1
DescriptionColor photo of City of Tempe Diversity Awards Individual Adult winner Jay Scherotter. Jay Scherotter is a committed and engaged citizen of Tempe. A former member of Tempe Leadership, a leader and organizer of Tempe Youth Leadership activities, and a past commissioner on the Tempe Human Relations Commission, Jay is always finding new ways to give back to the Tempe community. Most recently, Jay spearheaded an initiative to bring Challenge Day, a social emotional workshop that helps break barriers down between youth in middle and high schools, to schools in Tempe. In the last two years, the result of Jay's work has been thousands of students' lives changed and hundreds of adult volunteers' lives impacted. Establishing the Challenge Day workshops at Tempe schools took several years of commitment to come to fruition. Jay worked with Tempe City Council, the Tempe Police Department, Tempe school districts and the Tempe Diversity Office to first gain interest, then to omplement the program. Since then, Challenge Day was piloted at Marcos and McClintock high school in 2014, and returned to all seven school in the Tempe Union High School District and one Tempe Middle School in January, 2016, and again in October, 2016.
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