Category: high school

SFLA 2025-2026 Best New Group Nominees ANNOUNCED
Grant Atkinson | May 29, 2026
NOMINATED FOR BEST NEW GROUP The 2025-2026 academic year is coming to a close, which means that Students for Life of America will soon be awarding groups with Best New Group, Best High School Group, Best College Group, and Best Standing With You Group of the Year distinctions. The best part is . . . you get to help us choose which groups win these awards! The nominations for New Group of the Year are Cole Valley

SFLA 2025-2026 Best High School Group Nominees ANNOUNCED
Grant Atkinson | May 29, 2026
NOMINATED FOR BEST HIGH SCHOOL GROUP The 2025-2026 academic year is coming to a close, which means that Students for Life of America will soon be awarding groups with Best New Group, Best High School Group, Best College Group, and Best Standing With You Group of the Year distinctions. The best part is . . . you get to help us choose which groups win these awards! The nominations for High School Group of the Year are Students for Life at Grand

These Idaho High Schoolers Aren’t Waiting to Build a Culture of LIFE
Brenna Lewis | April 30, 2026
Congrats to our April Group of the Month! Based in Meridian, Idaho, Cole Valley Club America is a high school group that has worked tirelessly to make a lasting impact both on their campus and throughout their community. Through consistent activism, creative outreach, and civic engagement, this group shows exactly how dedicated students can help build a culture of life

The Votes are In: Spring Chalk Day’s 2026 Winners!
Lucy Sykes | March 30, 2026
Spring National Pro-Life Chalk Day is a wrap! On Tuesday, March 17, the nationwide Pro-Life Gen took to the sidewalks to chalk the TRUTH about abortion. The real reward for young activists was starting conversations, getting people thinking critically about abortion, and maybe even encouraging passing moms in crisis to choose Life. But, for added fun, we made it a

Meet Elise Vander Bleek, One of the National Leaders Collective’s February Leaders of the Month
Natalee Wilson | February 19, 2026
Elise Vander Bleek, one of the National Leaders Collective‘s leaders of the month, is a Students for Life of America Thaddeus Stevens Fellow attending Newman Central Catholic High School in Sterling, Illinois. Learn more about Vander Bleek’s activism below. I am involved in the pro-life movement because I was raised to know right from wrong. Abortion is the murder of an

How Students Can Achieve Balance: Advice from a 3x Students for Life Fellow
Ella Schumacher | February 19, 2026
I have participated in three of Students for Life’s fellowship programs, and every year I have learned something new. However, each year I am reminded of one important skill that is needed to develop excellence: balance. I am not only a William Wilberforce Fellow; I also work as a Sidewalk Advocate Coordinator with Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo and lead

The Holocaust Taught the World a Lesson. But Abortion Proponents Unlearned It.Â
Brenna Lewis | January 27, 2026
Today, January 27, is designated Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in 1945, the Red Army finally liberated the tortured souls at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland as WWII came to an end. More than one million victims at that camp did not live to see their rescuers’ approach, killed by gas chambers, starvation, death marches, and brutal forced labor. Soldiers present at the liberation later shared haunting reflections about the horrors they witnessed upon reaching Auschwitz. In the intervening years, a rallying cry of “Never

Meet Michele Kirkham, One of National Leaders Collective’s October Leaders of the MonthÂ
Michele Kirkham | October 17, 2025
Michele Kirkham, one of the National Leaders Collective’s (NLC) leaders of the month, is a Students for Life of America (SFLA), Thaddeus Stevens Fellow attending Creekside High School in St. John’s, Florida. Learn more about Kirkham’s activism below. I joined the pro-life movement because so many women and families are being lied to by the abortion lobby. There are such dark and twisted things happening in the abortion industry that cannot be

Standing Up with Conviction: Puerto Rican Students for Life Group Fights Bullying & DiscriminationÂ
Marcos Melendez | October 16, 2025
I never imagined that trying to start a student club would lead to intimidation and even threats to my fundamental American rights. My name is Marcos Meléndez Carrasquillo, and I’m a senior at University Gardens High School. I set out to create a space where students who value the dignity of every human Life could gather and exchange ideas: a Students for Life group. Instead, I encountered serious concerns about how

University Gardens High School Named September Group for the Month!Â
Kristen Marais | September 30, 2025
Our first Pro-Life Generation (PLG) high school group at University Gardens High School in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, is now Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) September Group of the Month! This comes shortly after becoming an official chartered group just earlier this month, making the honor even more special. While the group had meetings, trainings, and events over the summer, it was time to get the ball rolling this fall and get

