#1 'I Love Our Potential' was created by Alanah Correia, age 17 from Nova Scotia, Canada who says that the photograph (above) is "about how youth have the potential to take things, their future, their lives, into their own hands, but may not know they have this power". She contributed this piece to our Defining Moments project supported by Canadian Heritage. The exhibit has been travelling since July and will be in Toronto on January 31st and in Ottawa as part of Winterlude in February 2013.

#2 "I think everyone should do what they love, that way, the world will always be smiling." This is an excerpt from Cambio Jovenes, a stop motion film created by Fermin Martinez of Mexico, a TakingITGlobal student participant who was the Gold winner of the animation category for the 2012 Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards.

#3 "You never know how a simple doodling can lead to an idea, that same idea being told to a social entrepreneur or just another individual might just make life of thousands easier or save them." Yad Faeq from Iraq is a member of the Innovate for Good online community that launched with support from Microsoft in 2012.

#4 "I think a lot about the environment every day, and I do everything I can to cut down on my CO2 emissions" says Pernille from Denmark who is a prize winner from our Commit2Act Mobile App contest that helps users track actions towards reducing ecological footprints. The App has been profiled on App Central by Amber MacArthur and at key events including Rio+20 and the CIVICUS Youth Assembly.

#5 "Once you are in hilly terrains, nature's gifts lie all around you, waiting to be explored." Love for Nature is a poem written by Priya from India, published in our Panorama zine in May of 2012 that invites us to reconnect with ourselves and our land.

#6 "Through online collaboration we have seen how students are able to solve problems" says Chris Gauthier, educator at Cleveland District State High School who has utilized TIGed.org virtual classroom tools to involve his students in DeforestACTION, in an effort to stop deforestation in Borneo. He was a featured keynote speaker at the ISTE Conference in June 2012 with Dr. Willie Smits where he highlighted project-based learning.

#7 "It's a really exciting time to be alive" explains Talis Apud from Feel Good World, "We need to partner, we need to collaborate, in order to amplify our impact". She was among a group of 50 organizations invited to the Youth Movements Summit in New York, organized with support from the Knight Foundation and American Management Association.

#8 "I have decided to hold a one-day workshop for all teachers in the school so that we can express views and see how best we can introduce Environmental Education in the school." This was the follow-up commitment from a teacher at Bumpe High School in Sierra Leone who took the TIGed Education for Environmental Stewardship Professional Development e-Course created with support from Staples Foundation. "The school-wide project will ensure proper control of waste management"

#9 "Peace means freedom from fear" describes a student who is part of the Uruguayan American School Peace Project 2012, "being able to live without being afraid of going hungry, or being afraid of war or conflict." Explore a collection of videos submitted from schools across the Americas for the 2012 Global Issues Network Conference keynoted by TIG co-founder Michael Furdyk!

#10 "In the absence of stringent employment laws, maids have no 'guaranteed' access to health and childcare services." Sprout e-course Alumni and Pearson Fellow Pankaj Shanker Jethwani, age 23 from India has started a social venture called Maid in India that recently raised over $5,000 towards his goal of $10,000 on the Give for Youth portal.

#11 "Exploring the relationship between extroversion and civic engagement" Working with faculty and students from York University, more than 1,000 TIG members took part in a study focused on relationships between leadership, motivation and forms of online communication tools. Using externally validated models, findings from the study suggest a positive correlation between measures of extroversion and the prevalence of online and offline civic engagement behaviours.

#12 "The ability to learn new skills is just as important as skills learned or experience." This insight come from a Future of Work session at a retreat hosted by Coburn Ventures. TIG members were invited to share their insights alongside executives, technologists, academics and entrepreneurs in a discussion on a diverse range of change-making topics. From implications of 'Big Data' on healthcare, to neuroscience and advertising, members joined conversations about the direction of things to come.