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Thank You
to our FLOW family and friends for a fabulous year of mentoring!
This has been another rich, full year for the FLOW Mentoring program. With unending thanks to our brilliant site leaders and our dedicated teams of mentor teachers and mentor volunteers, we had very successful programs running throughout the county. We want to thank everyone who has helped FLOW become such a positive part of our community.
We wish you a happy summer and look forward to working with all of you again next year!
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REMINDER!
Monday, June 4 at 5pmFLOW Site Leader & Mentor Appreciation Reception
and the SMCPS Volunteer Recognition Ceremony
We truly appreciate all that our FLOW site leaders and mentors do for their mentees during the school year.
Please come out and let us honor you! And celebrate with us the end of another great year for FLOW. Monday, June 4th, 5PM Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center |
Congratulations to our 2012 Middle School
T-Shirt
This year's t-shirt design contest winner is the young woman pictured. She is a student from Margaret Brent Middle School who has a real interest in art, and her original shirt design - one of many submitted by students from the four middle schools - was the unanimous selection of our contest committee. Look out for the bold checkerboard throughout the St. Mary's community - we hope you'll be seeing it around!
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Hollywood Elementary:
Mural Project with FLOW Mentor and
SMCPS Art Teacher Mr.
Bobby Kneuer
Under the guidance and expertise of art teacher and FLOW Mentor Bobby Kneuer, the Hollywood Elementary FLOW group took on a complicated, thoughtful clay tile project, creating two mosaics which represent to them the meaning of FLOW.
The dragon mosaic, shown above, was created by the men and boys of FLOW. The process of creation took many steps. First, they re-designed a dragon picture to include the word "FLOW." They projected the image onto paper and cut out the pieces of the image in paper. Then they learned to use the slab roller and make the clay flat.
They traced the cut paper pieces onto flat white and red clay and cut them out. The next step was to color the white clay black, and then all the pieces were fired and glazed. Lastly, they assembled the fired pieces like a jigsaw puzzle, cemented them in place, and grouted. The bottom right-hand tile was large enough to engrave every member's name.
The group also produced this second mosaic of clay tiles, each of which again creates an image to reflect a personal understanding of the FLOW experience.
Above is an enlarged view of one of the central tiles in the large mosaic. It was designed, carved and painted by Mr. Kneuer. He describes the artistic process like this: "I looked up the word "flow" on Yahoo image search. I found lots of wavy lines and water flowing from faucets. I drew a faucet in the shape of an F. I drew little water droplets coming from the faucet with smiley faces on them. There is a puddle of water under the droplets to form the letter L. The world in the background represents O and the Future Leaders of the World. FLOW is about an older student or adult helping out a younger student -- we are a mentoring program. The small hand represents the mentee and the large hand represents the mentor. Together they form the W." |
Middle School FLOW Takes On the Newseum
Teacher mentors and mentees from our four middle school FLOW programs took several buses up to DC this month to have a museum adventure and outing in the big city.
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Leonardtown Middle mentees stand at the front doors of the Newseum.
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The starting point was the Newseum, where students were immersed in the world's greatest news events through exhibits and galleries, as well as many interactive multimedia kiosks and special-effects movies. As a full group, they took a class on ethics in photojournalism. Everyone climbed to the top floor to walk on the outside terrace overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue were they were photographed with the Capital as backdrop. After lunch, school groups divided up to explore their own interests in the area. Some took the monuments walk along the Mall; others chose to visit the Air and Space Museum; others just wanted more time at the Newseum before hopping back on the buses to return home. It was a happy and full day - and a memorable one.
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Everyone enjoying the
Photojournalism workshop!
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Esperanza mentor teacher with her small mentoring group.
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Several Spring Ridge mentors and mentees.
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On their way home!
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FLOW Mentoring
In Action
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Dynard Elementary: End of year ice cream party!
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Hollywood Elementary: swimming trip to CSM pool.
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  | Green Holly's mentor-mentee basketball game!
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Mentoring in the News
Former Mentee Writes Book Highlighting the Importance of Mentoring Ean Garrett, former mentee, spokesperson for MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership and current board member for the Midlands Mentoring Partnership in Nebraska, chronicles his journey to date and how mentors have made a positive difference in his life in the recently released book titled Rebirth of a Dream. click here to read more Nominate Your Mentor for the Presidential Award in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring Do you know someone who has been an excellent example, role model, and mentor to others in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines? If so, consider nominating them for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). click here to read more Evaluations and Reports on the Success of National Mentoring Month Initiatives Governors in Arkansas, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina and Oklahoma joined President Barack Obama in issuing proclamations designating January 2012 as National Mentoring Month while Local Lead Nonprofit Partners (LLNPs) in states across America drew attention to youth mentoring via their own media, corporate and public affairs relationships, as well as social media outreach and special events and activities. click here to read more
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Make a Difference-Become a Mentor!
If you would like to learn more about FLOW Mentoring, or are interested in becoming a mentor for the 2012-13 school year, please visit our website at:
www.smcps.org/ccr/mentor
or contact Sarah Tyson at the address below.
In gratitude,
Your FLOW Mentoring team |
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FLOW Mentoring
St. Mary's County Public Schools
Department of College and Career Readiness
24005 Point Lookout Road
Leonardtown, MD 20650
Phone: 301-475-0242 x.148
Fax: 301-475-0245
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