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Hollow Drive DREAM Quarterly Report March – May 2014 Greetings from DREAM! The Hollow Drive DREAM program has finished up another wonderful semester of activities. Though youth are sad to see their mentors leaving for summer break, they look forward to their return in September and have a whole summer of exciting programming to keep them busy! Here is a summary of all the Hollow Drive DREAM happenings from the last quarter.
Highlights from the quarter include: Hollow Drive celebrated another successful term together with a culminating trip to the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, VT. Mentees and their mentors got to see Sue, the oldest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered!
Fridays: Mentees enjoyed a memorable campus-wide scavenger hunt this quarter getting outside and
exploring Dartmouth’s campus! Most Fridays were spent hanging out together in the student center playing pool and board games, as well as sports games outside on the green once the nicer weather rolled in! Spring Fling at Dartmouth brought mentees from DREAM together with other Dartmouth College mentoring programs for an afternoon of corn hole, cookie decorating, face painting, musical chairs and arts and crafts.
Special Events for Children and Mentors:
The DREAM Office hosted a Teen Identity Retreat April 4-5, where teens gathered in Burlington and participated in informative sessions about health and identity, talked with panelists from local organizations, had a Q+A with a Burlington Police Officer, tried out Zumba and made connections with teens from all over Vermont. DREAM welcomed 100 mentors and mentees into the Alumni Organization this quarter!
Capacity Building and Fundraising:
DREAM is thrilled to share the start-up of a new DREAM program at UVM, paired with the Salmon Run Apartments in Burlington. The new mentors and mentees held their first DREAM Friday this quarter. DREAM was honored to receive a $5,000 unrestricted grant from Merchant’s Bank to support the Vermont DREAM Programs. Dartmouth DREAM’s Local Programs collaborated to host a very successful ‘Experience Auction,’ selling things like boomerang lessons and an hour of ice-skating with Dartmouth Hockey’s starting goalie! All together they raised over $700 dollars!
Camp:
This May three productive work days up in Fletcher, VT with the help of many volunteers from IBM helped prep Camp DREAM for summer!
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