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Birchwood DREAM Monthly Snapshot November 2015 Program Happenings and Highlights • Birchwood mentors collaborated with the Saint Michael’s College-Franklin Square DREAM program to help put on Franklin Square’s annual Thanksgiving dinner! • Two younger DREAMers came to Champlain for the first time. It was their first time ever visiting a college campus! • Birchwood gained one new mentor this month! Participants Mentees Total: 11 • Females: 7 • Males: 4
Mentors Total: 5 • Females: 4 • Males: 1
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Mentors and mentees spent time in the community playing games and coloring in the community center. They took advantage of the early sunset and played more than 5 rounds of flashlight tag! Mentees came to campus for an afternoon of video games, Magic: The Gathering, and drawing on chalkboards! The mentors and mentees from the Champlain-Birchwood program joined Franklin Square for their annual Thanksgiving dinner. Mentors and mentees from both programs enjoyed pizza, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and sweet treats as well as getting to know some unfamiliar DREAMers!
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