The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics has been hosting an annual conference focused on current issues in ethics and leadership since 1998. Hundreds of high school students attend the conference each year with their teachers or other adult chaperones.
The 2013 conference, Leadership: What Ethics Has to Teach Us, will be held on Friday, November 1st at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, North Carolina.
The 2013 Keynote address will be given by Eric Juengst, Director of the UNC Center for Bioethics and Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His discussion, bioethical issues.
The 2011 Ethics and Leadership Conference
Conference Format:
The conference agenda is designed so that schools within a 1 to 2 hour drive of Durham can board activity buses after their students arrive for class and get here in time to register; and they can leave in time to meet a school bus that will take them home. Students attend the conference, however, from as far away as Madison and Union Counties in the west, and Northampton and Pender Counties in the east. Box lunches can be purchased in advance for the day of the conference.
Breakout sessions are designed to engage the conference participants in discussions that explore the ethical and leadership implications of current issues. Prior to the conference students choose the breakout session topics of interest to them. Reading assignments to prepare students for discussions are provided by session leaders on this website. Session leaders include college faculty, high school and middle school teachers, physicians, attorneys, counselors, and other Triangle Area professionals.
Annual Conference for 2013:
The 2013 Ethics and Leadership Conference will be held at the North Carolina School of Science November 1, 2013. (Registration opens September 30th and closes October 21st at 5:00pm.)