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Northwoods DREAM Monthly Snapshot February 2016 Program Happenings and Highlights This month DREAM hosted Teen WAC! Youth from across VT got together for a day of
fun in Burlington. Some of the teens raised money for the Penguin Plunge and made the plunge into the freezing lake! DREAMers cheered on these braves mentors and mentees from the side of the lake! The teens ate pizza, watched Saint Michael’s College women’s hockey game, and ice skated away the afternoon! Mentors invited a campus dance group, Sheba, to come and teach the kids a few hiphop dance moves. Sheba taught some of the kids a few dance moves from popular hiphop videos. This month the mentors held a fundraiser at Margaritas Restaurant in Lebanon, NH. Mentors came to the community center to make breakfast for dinner for this term’s community dinner. Mentors and mentees worked together to cook bacon, eggs, pancakes, and breakfast burritos! Some of the mentors played games with the kids while waiting for dinner! Willing Hands came back for another cooking class. The kids worked together to cook muffins, soup, and a frittata. Mentors, Gautam Babu, Shannon Cleary, and Rachel Martin took a small group of kids rock climbing this month. The group went to Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center, where they spent the evening pushing themselves to new heights on the rock wall! AmeriCorps VISTA, Kylie Edwards, cooked lunch two days during February break. Youth came to the community center for a quesadilla lunch, hot cocoa, and games! The mentors took the kids to Maple Lanes in Claremont, NH for a Saturday of pizza and bowling!
Participants Mentees
Mentors
Total: 17 Females: 8 Males: 9
Total: 30 Females: 20 Males: 10
Weekly Programming with Children
There were three DREAM Fridays this month. The mentees did small group and one-onone activities on campus. For one of the Fridays the mentors held an egg drop competition. The mentees had to go around campus and find supplies to keep their egg safe from a two story fall!
Office: 30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT | Mail: P.O. Box 361, Winooski, VT 05404 │ (802) 338-8979 | info@dreamprogram.org
Thank you for your ongoing support of DREAM. If you would like additional or more detailed information, please contact me by email or by phone. DREAM big, Kylie Edwards Program Empowerment Director kylie@dreamprogram.org 802.338.8936