** UPCOMING EVENTS ** Project's Progress!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Neulife-Custom Rain Barrel Business Project

April 18 – 2:30- Additional Practice Sessions at Neulife 

      4pm – 4:45 pm Investor Presentation at MMSD

 

 May 1 – Final delivery date for 5 Rain Barrels sold

SUPAR-Financial Literacy Project

April 27 – Financial Literacy students present at other schools 

May 2 - Financial Literacy students present at SUPAR

** UPCOMING EVENTS ** GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY!

 All the UNIQUE projects the LTS students and Mentors have been working so hard to put together for Global Youth Service Day are being presented!

SUPAR (1712 S 32nd St. Milwaukee, WI 53215)

 April 15

   Outdoor Classroom Build at 16^th Street Community Health Center

      10 am to finish (we’re guessing about 2 pm)

St. Joan Antida (1341 N. Cass St. Milwaukee, WI 53202)

 April 15 

 

   Rain Garden Group:

   9 am  Take group "before" picture 

   9 am to 12:00  Build Rain Garden and take pictures 

   12:00 to 12:30  Clean up

 

   Art Structure Group:

   8am Arrive at Saint Joan’s, take before picture, get materials ready
   9:10-12:00 Will be creating the structure and finishing it
   1:00- Finishing touches and Clean up
   1:30- Take pictures of the finished art structure

Financial Literacy Project 4/13/2011

College Mentors lead a team of high school students in developing/presenting several financial literacy workshops at area schools

This past week in the Financial Literacy Campaign at SUPAR was very productive. We went over the presentation information and discussed the worksheet that will be given to teachers in classrooms that the students cannot present in. The students were very engaging and we reviewed what they have learned this semester. We discussed what the most important things to present to the other students are, and we clarified that they concretely understand this information. We then planned out the schedule for the upcoming weeks regarding when the students will practice and present in front of their peers, and other local schools.

-Luke Chambers

Youth Volunteerism Campaign 4/13/2011

College Mentors lead a team of high school students in learning the importance
of youth volunteerism then developing creative and innovative ways to spread
 the word to their peers

The past 2 weeks with the Youth Volunteerism Campaign have been very fun and productive. The students started to finalize the power point presentation and include pictures from various experiences throughout the semester. They then filmed their video doing various volunteer activities to be accompanied with the power point presentation. One student even wrote a song about volunteering that may be included in the video. The students had a lot of fun filming the video and were very energetic. We then discussed the upcoming weeks and started to discuss student’s roles in the presentation.

-Luke Chambers

While it has been sometime since we last talked, the project is in full throttle to be finished. With not much time to go, the group of teens, along with the mentors and supervisors have finished the power point and are now just putting finishing touches on it. Besides the power point, the Boys and Girls Club have also been given the chance to put together some great action shots to create/promote the volunteer work they have been a part of. Even though it may have been a little dry to make/create the power point, the volunteers showed their true personalities when it came to being filmed. Many of the boys and girls were laughing, joking, and definitely enjoying themselves as we walked around making our video for volunteering.

After seeing those students passion and acting skills, there is only one thing to say, watch out Denzel Washington, there is a new group of actors and actresses storming Milwaukee! Things to look forward to as we wrap up this semester and the project, presenting our power point to the Boys and Girls Club, editing the video, and celebrating the hard work these kids have did.

-Lucas White

Custom Rain Barrel Business Project 4/13/2011

College Mentors lead a team of high school students in developing a custom design rain barrel business in which residents, businesses and community organizations can order their own attractively decorated rain barrel(s).

As the lead to succeed student continue to work on their projects, I would like to make sure that you are well informed of what they are accomplishing. This week we worked on finalizing designs and created some captions for the drawings. So far, the students have come up with the following:

Three of four designs will be finalized so at the next meeting we can actually start putting them on card stock so they will be ready to help with our other team’s business pitch to acquire some rain barrels to paint and start selling. We are getting down to crunch time and I can’t wait to see how everything comes together.

-Codee Sigler

Big news! The end is in sight! We are making the final push before we can start sell rain barrels! The past couple of weeks have been very exciting and very busy. The business team has been working on the outline and power point slides that will be used for the sales proposal meeting with MMSD. From this meeting, we are hoping that MMSD will be willing to donate a generous number of rain barrels for us to sell as a source of “seed money” (upstart capital). When this happens, we will be looking for more interested buyers, and the real fun will begin! I cannot wait to see what the next few weeks have in store for us!

-Bryce McCourt

Global Youth Service Day Projects 4/13/2011

College Mentors lead a team of high school students in planning

water related service projects that will become part of Global

Youth Service Day (April 2011)

This week the girls at St. Joan Antida have finalized their plan for Global Youth Service Day. They will be presenting their project to their fellow freshmen class. They are working on a poster board that will include why they are making environmentally friendly hand soap and how. They will be setting up stations so that the freshmen can learn how to make it. The girls are very excited to share what they have learned and they have been working very hard. The first time we tried to make the soap we weren't so successful but we are continuing to work hard to get it right before Global Youth Service day!

-April Heath

 
With less than a week to go before Global Youth Service Day, our project is finally looking like a finished product. This past week we were able to receive our products needed to create our organic samples. With the time constraints and the extra ingredients needed to make the bars of soap, we ended up scratching that product from our “kit” so now we are left with shampoo and conditioner. While the products turned out quite well there are only a couple minor details left before we hand out our samples to the volunteers who are cleaning up the KK River on Saturday. The note card is completed with what is in our products, as well as the information about how these organic samples affect the environment and allow our water industry to be cleaner, fresher, and less polluted. The only thing left to look forward to is organizing our samples, handing out our samples, promoting our products, and then finally celebrate for all the hard work the ladies have done throughout the semester.

-Lucas White

On April 5^th the SUPAR group met after a long three week spring break, which meant we only have one class period after that until their outdoor classroom assembly and presentation for Global Youth Service Day on April 15^th.  As we quickly approach Global Youth Service Day at SUPAR, the students are making their final decisions on each group’s responsibilities in order to be prepared for April 15^th. The mural group has constructed a beautiful piece to hang on the designated fence at 16^th Street Community Health Center, and the plaque/podium group ordered a plaque to be mounted next to the hanging mural. It was quite a long process finding a mural design that fit both the student’s personality as well as 16^th Street Community Health Center’s expectations. The students met both of these requirements though, designing an impressive piece. The benches group also has had success receiving confirmation on the tree stump delivery from Buckley Tree Service, and we are all very grateful of them for donating these tree stumps to the students.

All the students have left to worry about is creating the mural, receiving all the materials (such as bulbs to plant and the planter pots), and assigning individual tasks for the students to stay on task and finish the project at a reasonable time. With only so little time to go, things can sometimes become overwhelming. However, I really have faith in the students to follow through and create a really great outdoor project.

-Abby Breitenfeldt

Global Youth Service Day Project-3/18/2011

Monday, March 21, 2011

College Mentors lead a team of high school students in planning

water related service projects that will become part of Global

Youth Service Day (April 2011)

These last two weeks at Saint Joan Antida have been hectic. I was ill last week and unfortunately could not meet with my girls. However, they were able to come together and create a display poster board to show faculty the importance of a rain garden. This is paramount to our project for we have yet to get permission from the high school to install the garden, so I am proud that they accomplished this. Having said that, this week when I met with them to actually give the presentation, the poster board was lost or stolen from the library where it was stored!  Like any good story, we came together in a flash, printed off some stored facts and information about our project and were able to pull together a proposal. The girls were fantastic and really gave some great ideas. However, there are concerns about maintenance, especially during the summer when the school is closed.  So, before we can go to the Sisters, the group needs to brainstorm on who will take care of this during the break.

     We also finished our budget worksheet and determined to shoot for the stars and see what we can afford. We came up with a list of all the native plants we want to implement, how much compost we need, as well as the mulch and soil.  Again, we need to make sure we are able to use the lot that we requested and will hopefully know within two weeks!  I emailed the peer facilitator to give a heads up and have the girls thinking of not only maintenance concerns but alternatives as well for a backup plan. Overall, we are working well and I am hoping for the best!

-Mary Jane Kunath

Today was the start of the 3^rd week of our “Water Bottle Challenge”. We are a little less than half way to making our goal of collecting 100 plastic bottles. To gain more recognition for the Water Bottle Challenge we decided to dedicate ½ our time this week to creating as many posters as we could and the other ½ to hanging them up all over the school. Once this was done we finished up our resource list and also came up with all the prices. My team members want to build a rain barrel structure just by using the barrel and then creating the rest with recyclable bottles. On Global Youth Service Day the team plans to show their structure to a few 6^th grade classes and come up with an educational presentation. This presentation will describe what a rain barrel is, how it works, and why we use them.  Next week we are planning on contacting community partners of Lead to Succeed for a barrel donation.

-Kelly Crowley

After defining our project in the previous weeks, we finally were able to decide on the shampoo, conditioner, and soap to create from scratch. With many of the girls wanting something that would smell good, we chose many of the organic soap and shampoo products that contained coconut or honey. After getting together all the ingredients needed for each item (shampoo, conditioner, and soap), we took each amount and multiplied it to increase our sample size to be able to give away approximately 50 samples. Even though many of the girls have been sick or gone, our group is still getting things accomplished and once we receive the ingredients, we will be able to begin making our hygiene kit. Some things we still need to work on are, when the group will be able to get together and make these products and what exactly we want to type on our “educational note cards” when we hand out our kits.

-Lucas White

Things are moving along great with the group of girls that I have the pleasure of working with at St. Joan Antida. They have gotten together all the ingredients they need to make environmentally friendly hand soap and we gave it a try for the first time this past Thursday. We won't really see the finished product for a couple of weeks, but we are very excited to see how the soap turns out. The girls are also working on a poster board presentation that they are planning on sharing with the freshmen classes for Global Youth Service Day. They will be sharing with their fellow classmates what they are doing and why. It has been very cool seeing them pull all of the information together. The group has made so much progress and I am very excited to see how far they get in their project in the next few weeks.  

-April Heath