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Our story begins in meteor hit the spacecraft BOOM, it crashed into the Whooooosh!
The meteor plopped down. Water lit everywhere! It smelled cheese. It was a sunny the water it was dark.
1 in deep space! After a spacecraft with a big the ocean. Splash! meteor and the spacecraft lit up and smoke was smelled like fi re and stinky day, but deep under
Princess Olivia, Lizzy METAL (a half fox, half Poisons, who had snakes came out of the spaceship. these four friends had spacecraft to keep them many attacking aliens
Everyone but The Poisons Since foxes and mermaids METAL and Lizzy swam Olivia and The Poisons
Lizzy the Mermaid, half robot), and The snakes in their hair, all spaceship. The parents of put them on the them safe—there were too on their home planet. Poisons fell on the floor. mermaids can swim, swam out fi rst. Princess Poisons were about to run out
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of breath when their friends safety. They swam to shore of the ocean. They crawled took a deep breath, and jungle ahead of them. They sound, a sound they had aliens! They spied a giant
The aliens were close were safe for now.
friends pulled them to shore on the other side crawled onto the sand, and saw a MONSTER They heard a creepy had heard before: giant seashell and hid! close behind, but they
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WORKSHOPS
Our trained volunteers go into local public schools every day to support teachers with their classroom writing assignments. Based on the teacher’s curriculum, assignments range from writing tales to crafting college essays to exploring poetry.
IN-SCHOOL PROJECTS
inspires school-aged students to volunteers in their communities. Our writing and tutoring programs uphold a culture of creativity strong habits of mind. rough publication and community enthusiastic audience for their writing.
SCHOOLWORK SUPPORT
e program formerly-known as tutoring has been given an updated name, but the same great foundations remain. We organize trained volunteer tutors to work with students one-on-one with their homework after school. Schoolwork Support is available for all subjects, for students ages 8–18.
ONLINE LEARNING LAB
In the spring of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we quickly transitioned all of our programs online. For the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, 826michigan programs remained online. Beginning in Spring 2022, we started moving slowly into engaging with in-person programming, and continue to o er all of our core programming virtually.
We o er a number of free workshops taught by professional artists, writers, and our talented volunteers. From comic books to screenplays, bookmaking to radio, our wide variety of workshops are perfect for writers of all ages and interests. One of the most popular workshops we o er is our weekly Wee-bots program for elementary-aged writers.
Students come as a class to our writing lab to join a group of volunteers, interns, and sta in order to help solve a problem through writing—whether that is our editor Dr. Blotch’s insomnia, our looming story deadline, a mystery in need of solving, or one of the many others we encounter. Our eld trips always end in a nished publication of original writing that students take home.
write with skill and con dence in collaboration with adult creativity and imagination and support students in establishing community engagement, we provide students with an authentic and FIELD TRIPS
OUR STORES Our Robot Supply Co. stores are one-stop shops for robots, robot owners, and enthusiasts alike. ey are designed to inspire creativity and bring awareness of our programs to the community. Come visit the Ann Arbor Robot Supply Co. at 115 East Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor and, hopefully again soon at the Detroit Robot Supply Co. at 1351 Winder Street in Eastern Market in Detroit. In addition, our online store is always open; visit the Robot Supply Co. at onwardrobots.com. All proceeds from our stores directly fund our free student programming. Onward robots!
WRITING IS A way to figure things out by ourselves A way to help us connect to our world A way to help us learn who we are and who we will become A way for us to use our power to make changes and build a better world We create a safe place to be ourselves and try new Wethingssupport the ways that writers work (like thinking, sketching, Wetalking)study the writing we want to do so we can try it We learn how to change our writing for genre, audience, and purpose We work with a group of writers who help and support each www.826michigan.orgother
The 826 National network is committed to encouraging youth to express themselves and to use the written word to effectively do so. We encourage our students to write, take chances, make decisions, and finish what they start. And 826 strives to do this in an environment free from discrimination and exclusion. by Gerald Richards, CEO
826 National was inspired to take a stand on issues of inclusion and diversity in light of the many events that spotlighted social and racial injustices throughout the country. We as educators, volunteers, and caring adults need to be aware of the wide range of issues our students face on a day-to-day basis. We need to support these young people as they navigate through and try to make sense of the world and their own identities. We need the support and the feedback from our community to ensure 826 is living up to these standards. Through our inclusion statement, our internal diversity and inclusion group, cultural competency resources provided to staff and volunteers, and partnerships with other organizations, we are always working towards being a more inclusive and supportive organization. We at 826 have the privilege of working with the next generation of scholars, teachers, doctors, artists, lawyers, and writers. It's our job to make sure they are able to take their own stands. As an organization committed to encouraging youth in their creative expression, personal growth, and academic success, 826 National and its chapters recognize the importance of diversity at all levels and in all aspects of our work. In order to build and maintain the safe, supportive 826 environment in which great leaps in learning happen, we commit ourselves to inclusion: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, nationality, marital status, English fluency, parental status, military service, or disability.
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