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Birchwood Manor –DREAM Quarterly Report December 2015 – February 2016
Greetings from DREAM! This quarter, Birchwood mentors and mentees wrapped up another fantastic semester and parted ways for Champlain College’s winter break. After a long month apart, the group reunited and jumped right back into another semester of exciting programming! Highlights from the quarter include: • Mentors came back from their winter break with new enthusiasm and energy for DREAM. Four mentors returned from studying abroad and were thrilled to get back to DREAMing! • Three mentees and one mentor joined over one hundred other DREAMers from across the state at Winter Adventure Camp held at Camp DREAM on January 30th. • Champlain DREAM hosted “Stick it to the Chef,” a DREAM Friday that doubled as a fundraiser and publicity event! The goal was to stick the Champlain cafeteria’s Head Chef, Sandi Earle to the wall with duct tape! The mentees and mentors collected donations and for each dollar donated the mentees put another piece of duct tape on Chef Sandi. • Champlain DREAM has focused heavily on recruitment this semester. More than five new mentors joined the Champlain DREAM team! • On Martin Luther King Jr Day, DREAM hosted a group of teens from across the state at Camp DREAM for a day of service and bonding. Two teens from the Birchwood Program attended! Fridays: • Mentors and mentees spent their last Friday of the fall semester in the community playing games and eating snacks! • Mentors and mentees baked cookies, played • Mentors and mentees spent an afternoon baking and making Valentines Day cards in the community center! • Mentees and mentors formed teams to compete in a scavenger hunt around UVM’s campus!
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