Just four easy steps to get involved:

1. Enlist high school participation
2. Organize an instruction date
3. Recruit, train medical students
4. Teach!!!

Medical students send letters to local middle and high schools explaining the need for skin cancer education in this age group. Once principals and teachers agree to have medical students come teach about skin cancer in their classrooms, medical students are recruited and trained to go out and teach the interactive 50-minute curriculum.

After the teaching is completed, students are invited to participate in the Melanoma Awareness Project Poster contest, where artists of winning posters are awarded prizes and the children’s posters, with their permission, are replicated and posted throughout the community. This gives the youth a sense of ownership in their role of increasing melanoma awareness.

Download the documents provided (on the top right of the page) and follow the instructions provided.