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Birchwood Manor DREAM Quarterly Report Quarter 2 December 2016 – February 2017 Greetings from DREAM! The Birchwood DREAM program has finished up another wonderful quarter of activities. Here is a summary of all the Birchwood DREAM happenings from the last quarter.
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For their final event of the Fall Semester, mentors held a holiday party for mentees in the Birchwood community center. Each mentee was given a book picked out by their mentor as well as a letter with notes from all of the mentors! In January, the mentors and mentees were reunited after a long month apart! Deb Kosnar and Alayna Masker continued in their roles as co chairs this semester. For the first time in years, the mentees in the Birchwood DREAM Program are almost entirely matched in one on one pairs with mentors! Four mentees from the Birchwood DREAM Program attended Winter Adventure Camp in February! Mentors formed committees at the beginning of the semester to plan their culminating trip and Beautification Day in the Birchwood community! Mentees and mentors alike have been working hard to plan and fundraise for the events, which will both be taking place in April.
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Younger mentees went to Spare Time for an afternoon of bowling while older mentees spent time with their mentors at the cafeteria on Champlain’s campus. Birchwood DREAM held their final DREAM Friday of the Fall Semester on December 9th. Mentors and mentees went to Get Air in Williston, VT, for an afternoon of bouncing on trampolines! For the first Friday of the Spring Semester, mentors and mentees discussed their expectations for each other and went to a pizza fundraiser for the Psychology Club! Mentors and mentees spent one Friday doing one on ones in their matches. Mentors and mentees went to Milton High School to watch one of the mentees play in her Junior Varsity Basketball game! The group played games in the gym and did a scavenger hunt around campus for one of their DREAM Fridays! Teen mentees came to campus to spend time with their mentors at the cafeteria one afternoon while the younger mentees played in the snow and made snow art at the community center.
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