This semester, it has been a much smoother transition to line up our high school schedule with the elementary school's schedule. Now that we have access to and understand the UA schedule until Spring Break, we were able to schedule all of our current mentor pairs for multiple meeting times in the next few months. We have already had one mentor go to NPE this semester, and we have multiple more pairs meeting within the next week!
However, with every success comes a few problems to trip you up. We are still short on high school guys to mentor. We have emailed multiple guys, checked with Mr. Large, texted a few more guys, and we still haven't found another guy to mentor. We are hoping to find one by the end of the week, but if we can't, one option is to have one of our current mentors meet with two elementary students. We don't want to have to do this, but we may have to if it comes down to it. One other problem we have run into is some of our mentor pairs don't have any matched-up dates from February 9th to Spring Break. This is a really long break, so we are brainstorming ways to fix this gap. Overall, though, we are very excited that the program is starting to fall into place! Our next steps are to fix these problems, and then once all the mentor pairs are scheduled and ready to go, we will be ready to brainstorm ways to pass this program on to a few seniors next year, so kids can continue being mentored.
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AuthorMy name is Ellie Roudebush, and I'm a senior in the Advanced Business Management class at New Palestine High School. Archives
February 2018
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