As we've been waiting for all of our student applications to come in this week, we have been working on creating activities for the mentors and mentees to use when they meet. The goal of these activities is to help develop a friendship between the students. They are centered around getting to know each other, learning from each other, and being creative together. We have created a packet that the high school students can pick up from the counselor when they come to the elementary school. The packets will contain multiple different activities the students can use. Although optional, we hope they'll be very helpful in building a friendship between the pairs! Below are some examples of some of the activities we have created for the students.
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This week, we have been working on some details that are bringing us even closer to starting up the SMILE Program! First, we realized that there weren't enough high school students yet to mentor at NPE, so we contacted Mr. Barton about his list. He sent us the list of students he had already asked. After going through this list, we realized his list was missing a lot of very qualified names. We asked him if it would be alright if we created another list and contacted all of those students about our program, and he said we could do that. Therefore, we created a new list of students who we have seen and talked to at school who we believed would make good mentors for the elementary students. We chose students who are responsible, reliable, and compassionate. After getting Mr. Barton's approval of these names, we sent an email to the students with our mentor application attached and asked anyone interested to fill it out and send it back to us. We have had many responses so far, and we are still expecting and hoping for more.
We heard from NPE's counselor, and she said there may be up to 15 students interested at NPE, so our goal is to get 15 high school students, so we can reach out to all of those kids. We are so thankful for all the high schoolers who have applied so far, and we can't wait to get the program started after fall break! |
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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