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Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals for MAPS 2025 is now closed.
We are absolutely overwhelmed with how many practitioners and adolescents submitted proposals for MAPS 2025. We have a great lineup of presenters in store for this year’s conference!
If you missed your opportunity to submit a proposal for MAPS 2025, don’t worry; this is an annual conference, so there will be future opportunities to present at MAPS! Make sure you are subscribed to our mailing list to be the first to know when Call for Proposals for MAPS 2026 opens.
Selected proposals will be concise, carefully-curated presentations, demonstrations, and talks that will foster learning, inspiration, curiosity, and wonder while also prompting conversations that matter and continue to center adolescents.
Process for submitting a proposal at MAPS 2025
Review the categories below. Consider which is best suited for your presentation.
Remember the digital format. Consider how your topic and presentation will translate into a digital format. Your workshop must speak to a virtual community.
Include break-out sessions. Include break-out sessions. Proposals that include substantive break-out sessions are encouraged. Attendees are most interested in workshops with collaborative work.
Select workshop duration. Select workshop duration. Choose from 45-, 60-, and 90-minute session options. All sessions must include 10-15 minutes for Q&A.
Complete and submit a call for proposals.
All submissions will be reviewed by Sept 1, 2025. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis.
We want to hear from adolescents!
This year, we are accepting workshops presented by adolescents from any of the categories below. What does that look like? Let the adolescents decide! Consider presentations which may include:
videos and/or short films
panel discussions
demonstrations
small group discussions with several adolescents
digital slide deck presentation
The goal is for adolescents to present their process and progress in meaningful work for their time, place, space, and community.
Next steps: Complete and submit a call for proposals.
Workshop Categories
COMMUNITY IMPACT
Detailing how programming supports the work of the "social newborn" - present authentic adolescent involvement in community service, action, and advocacy.
Justice
Actively promoting and aspiring to advance the culture of inclusion through intentional and positive efforts that benefit people as a whole.
Disciplines
This track provides actionable programs or approaches within a specific content area.
Production & Exchange
The intersection of what the adolescent needs and the prepared environment. Showcase how your programs demonstrate the guidelines for P&E, including real work with consequences, student inspired, driven, and led, and profits re-invested.
YOUTH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (YPAR)
A space where students can share to the greater community an issue or concern addressed within their community. This track is where adolescent can speak to a topic that they see as a systematic concern that their community has researched, analyzed, and addressed, and proposed action has been taken.