Participate in The MY HERO Project

People of all ages share stories that honor scientists, artists, environmentalists, peacemakers, lifesavers and others on the MY HERO website. Children honor friends and family, while parents and teachers honor children making a difference.

Sign the MY HERO Guestbook
    To honor and celebrate heroes from all walks of life

Post your entry directly into the Guestbook or draft and refine your story in a program such as Word, then cut and paste your paragraph(s) into the Guestbook. Entries are posted live into this ever-growing archive of hero stories. Occasionally, stories are placed "on hold" for review and are then activated. You can use the search engine in the Guestbook to locate your entries and enjoy sharing them with friends and family.

Join the MY HERO Forum

The MY HERO Forum encourages critical thinking and offers a place for the open exchange of ideas.

Current topics include:

•  How can we use the Internet as a tool for peace and hope?
     created by MY HERO and Childnet International
    
•  What kind of heroes should we embrace?
     forum introduced with an essay by Charles Harper

  Please submit suggestions for other MY HERO Forum topics via email to myhero@myheroproject.org

Selected Stories from the Associated Press

Each week the MY HERO staff reviews stories and photographs focusing on news-makers who are bringing about positive change in the world.

The Goldman Environmental Prize honors those working to protect the planet.	Annalena Tonelli was honored for her efforts helping Somalian refugees.	Health workers in India knocked on millions of doors in a campaign to vaccinate 165 million of the children against polio.	Young people volunteered to raise money for war-stricken Iraqi families.

The MY HERO Virtual Art Gallery

VISUALIZE HEROISM in the MY HERO online virtual gallery.
The Gallery will showcase important works of art made by professionals and students that illuminate and explore the subject of heroism. The My Hero Gallery has a user-friendly template created for on line submission of original works of art. Students and professional artists, alike, are invited to participate and teachers may contact Victoria Kogan Murphy, curator of the online gallery for more information.

The MY HERO Library

My Hero has launched an online library so that students and teachers and parents can discover and share books about heroes.

The MY HERO Teachers Room

Read and share lesson plans developed by teachers working in high school, college and elementary schools who have used MY HERO in their classrooms. There is a calendar of themes that can be viewed to prepare in advance for special events like Black History month, Women's History month. and more.