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Pine Meadow DREAM Quarterly Report March – May 2015-2016 Greetings from DREAM! The Spring months have been full of exciting DREAMiness, including special events, new mentor and mentee recruitment, trainings, and so much more!
Highlights from the quarter include: • This quarter the DREAMers enjoyed an exciting end of year culminating event that included bowling and a barbecue and games with Community Friends, another mentoring program through Middlebury College. • At the end of the year Pine Meadow/Peter Coe DREAMers celebrated graduating mentors, Virginia and Stuart. They received their “Alumni” T shirts and graduation tassels with tiny DREAM charms. • At the end of the school year 6 DREAM mentors were nominated for awards at the annual Middlebury College Public Service Leadership Awards! • Two new youth were welcomed into the program in May! • Camp DREAM took place at Camp Abnaki in North Hero Vermont June 14 through June 18. Several Pine Meadow/Peter Coe DREAMers were in attendance and enjoyed their time swimming, doing arts and crafts, playing sports, and getting to know DREAMers from across the state! • Summer Community AmeriCorps members Annie Schneider and Tony Albanese began programming in Middlebury at the end of June. They kicked things off with ice cream and games in the communities. • A group of dedicated DREAM teens spent a week at Camp DREAM in Fletcher, Vermont participating in DREAM’s first ever Teen Trail Crew this June! The group did various projects around camp including trail maintenance and clearing brush in the old apple orchard.
Participants Mentees Total: 14
Mentors Total: 12
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