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Willowbrook DREAM Monthly Snapshot January 2014 Program Happenings and Highlights January marked the start of Field Work Term, a winter term in which Bennington College students find off-campus jobs and internships. Mentor Emily Leader has spent her Field Work Term interning with DREAM and leading enriching afterschool activities four or five days each week! Emily took part in a day-long orientation to learn more about DREAM and get acclimated to her new role as an intern. Participants Mentees
Mentors
Total: 14 Females: 7 Males: 7
Total: 13 Females: 10 Males: 3
Weekly Programming with Children Willowbrook youth celebrated the start of Field Work Term with a kick-off event, during which they made dream catchers and enjoyed delicious baked goods. The group played games and designed sun catchers. Emily spent three Tuesdays making dinner with groups of DREAM youth. The menu included grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, and carrot sticks. Mentees tested their engineering skills building paper airplanes and held a contest to see whose airplane flew the farthest. The group filled the community center with a wonderful scent when they made sculptures and ornaments out of cinnamon and apple sauce. Emily and DREAM youth made their own Chex Mix and planted lima beans. The group had two game days in the community center. Mentees showed off their creative skills painting with balloons, and then played balloon tag. Emily showed DREAM youth how to build structures out of toothpicks and marshmallows. The group got creative again while designing a mural, which they drew on a shower curtain.
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