With performances by the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and Bridgit Mendler, We Day, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the nation’s youth, is coming to Minneapolis on Oct. 8.

The organization will host an event at the Xcel Energy Center, with guest performances by a variety of popular artists. Well-known figures, such as Mark Dayton and Martin Luther King III, will speak to the students and encourage them to make social change. Local heroes will also be attending the event, according to David Stillman, the director of the We Day event in Minnesota.

We Day is hosting this event to honor students invloved in volunteer opportunities, according to Stillman.

“This is a one-time event to celebrate the youth who are involved in both local and global volunteering,” Stillman said. “You can’t buy your tickets, they need to be earned (through volunteering).”

We Day also reaches out to different schools, and provides students with a chance to get involved in global volunteer opportunities, such as We Scare Hunger, in which students go trick or treating for food donations.

Park students are also finding ways to work in the local event. Senior Carly Quick said she was introduced to the event through a teacher.

“Mr. Cohen introduced me to We Day,” Quick said. “He made it seem really cool and rewarding and he encouraged me to be a part of it.”

Quick, along with other Park students, will work for the We Day event as a crowd pumper. Crowd pumpers will be strategically placed among the crowd and their role is to energize the crowd.

Quick said she believes this event is an opportune time for students to feel as though they are doing something good for their community.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to experience something new,” she said. “Why wouldn’t you want to be a part of something this huge?”

For students who still wish to volunteer as a crowd pumper, applications can still be filled out at We Day’s website.