Closing Day 2016
Closing Day signifies the end of our mentoring program for the year, and is also the time of year when we officially bid adieu to our graduating seniors. This June, we brought more than 120 mentors, mentees and volunteers from both our Manhattan and Queens mentoring programs up to Nyack College in Nyack, NY to […]
Mentoring Highlight: Battery Park Community Activism
Over 50 mentors and mentees from our middle school mentoring program helped plant bottle brush shrubs in Battery Park on Saturday, April 23rd. While most parks are publicly owned by the city, Battery Park is maintained by The Battery Conservancy, privately funded since 1994 when it was established. Mentors and mentees worked hand in hand with the […]
Mentoring Highlight: Thankful Trees
In preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday, we asked our middle school mentoring pairs to think about gratitude and what they’re thankful for this holiday season. We started off with a worksheet to get them warmed up,including questions like: Describe a special favor you received and how it helped and touched you Describe a special gift […]
Mentoring Highlight: Halloween!
For our pre-Halloween middle school mentoring session, we broke up our mentoring pairs into teams to make Halloween costumes out of everyday materials: aluminum foil, tissue paper, toilet paper, string, construction paper and markers. With some teamwork, they came up with a whole gamut of costumes! We saw a unicorn, Tarzan, a mummy, a pirate, […]
Mentoring Highlight: Scavenger Race!
What better way to celebrate spring than with a fun outdoor activity? Our Middle School Mentoring Program set out in Chinatown to complete a scavenger race, exploring the area, visiting well-known landmarks, and completing challenges at checkpoints. We drew inspiration from hit TV show The Amazing Race and combined it with a traditional scavenger hunt, […]
MS Mentoring Highlight: Popsicle Sticks!
At the last Saturday session, our middle school mentoring pairs got to work on honing their communication skills at PS 1. They did several exercises, but had the most fun testing their verbal limits with popsicle sticks! We divided the group into three mentoring pairs per team, and each mentee got a turn to describe […]