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This year, 191 volunteers gave over 915 hours serving as writing coaches, soccer coaches, referees and special event staff. We are truly grateful to each of our volunteers for sharing your time and talent with our youth. Click here to see some of the local businesses and organizations our 2011 volunteers represented.
Our work would not be possible without the support of our board, whose leadership and dedication to our SCORES youth inspires us everyday. A listing of America SCORES St. Louis board members can be found here on our website. |
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We Thank Our Sponsors from this Season!
Adidas
ASCAP
Boeing
Emerson
Greensfelder Hemker and Gale
HY-C Company LLC
Lou Fusz Soccer Club
Missouri Arts Council
Missouri Foundation for Health
Moneta Group
Ridley Pearson
Scorch
Smith NMTC Associates LLC
St. Louis Public Radio
Vetta Sports
...And Our Partners!
Hotel Ignacio, Ironman Sound Industries, Johnny Macs, Saint Louis University Athletics, SLYSA, St. Louis Kids Magazine, STL Sports Productions, STLClubSoccer.com, STL United FC, Whole Foods Town and Country | | |
| Recent Media Coverage |
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Interview with Serena Muhammad on 106.5 The Arch |
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Students featured on Fox 2 with Tim Ezell |
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Student record featured on front page of St. Louis American |
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Fall Frenzy featured in STL Today, Club Soccer |
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World Soccer Dribbling Record in STL Today |
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For a complete listing of recent SCORES media coverage, visit
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My Imagination is So Strong, by Octavis K. | |
It's like a brick that can't be crushed
Even the toughest steel, it can't touch!
Always efficient, it makes progress even when I sleep
My imagination
I will always keep!
My imagination allows me to think, to believe, to dare
My imagination allows me
to go anywhere
To the moon, to the stars, to Las Vegas, even Paris
People treat their imagination so careless
But me
My imagination is so strong
I feel like I can change the world
Be a superhero, a doctor, an astronaut, a surgeon,
an artist, you see...
My imagination
Expresses me | |
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Greetings!
When did you first learn... ...that a teacher /coach cared about you ...that the world didn't stop when you lost a game (or when you won) ...that helping an opponent up was a sign of strength, not weakness ...that the applause was for you ...that you belonged to a team ...that someone was looking up to you Because of supporters like you, more than 200 SCORES youth experienced these lessons in 2011. By teaching poetry, SCORES shows my students the writing skills they didn't know they already had. I've seen students transform their behavior after playing on a SCORES team, and get better test scores than their classmates. This program really changes lives. -Ms. Hearns, SCORES Writing Coach  | | SCORES students performing onstage |
Help us impact the lives of more deserving students. However big or small, your gift makes a difference. - $10 gives a student a full year of writing supplies to advance her poetry
- $25 outfits a student with his own soccer equipment
- $50 provides a soccer team with healthy game day snacks for one season
- $100 provides research-based writing, soccer, and service learning curriculum to a SCORES team of future leaders
We thank you for your support of our youth, and wish you and your family a very happy holiday season. Sincerely, The staff of America SCORES St. Louis Visit us online |
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Serena Muhammad Wins National Service Learning Award
We are pleased to announce that our Founding Executive Director, Serena Muhammad, has been selected as the winner of the G. Bernard Gill Urban Service-Learning Leadership Award from the National Youth Leadership Council. Congratulations to Serena--a pioneer for service-learning in St. Louis!
It has been an honor to work with such a dedicated team of board members, staff, and community partners who care so much about the well-being of children in our community. Their support makes my work possible. -Serena Muhammad
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Youth Publish and Perform Poetry
 SCORES youth impressed judges and community members with powerful performances of their original poetry at the 2011 Poetry SLAM. Students from 7 public elementary schools stood in front of a live audience to recite original works of poetry. Congratulations to Iyontae of Jefferson Elementary for her first place individual poem, Soccer Sounds, and the Walbridge Elementary boys team for their first place group poem, Our Community Garden. Watch a highlight performance from the SLAM here. And click here to see original Poetry PSA's students created to promote their special event. Two students will be selected to read their poems at the National Poetry SLAM in New York this April.
Selected poetry from our students has been published in the national Kicker! magazine, distributed to 10,000 readers in 13 cities nationwide. We congratulate our eloquent students for their fantastic creative writing this year. Click here to read the 2011 edition of Kicker!.
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Prominent Artists Turn Youth Poetry into Paintings and Music
This season, SCORES youth had the privilege of working with country hit songwriter Dave Berg to create an original song from their poems. Click here to watch a musical masterpiece in progress, highlighting the students' songwriting experience from the classroom all the way to Shock City Studios. A full version of the new song "I Can Be What I Wanna Be", will be out in the Spring, made possible by ASCAP.
Students also transformed their poems into paintings with prominent local artist Seitu James Smith, who painted an original piece reflecting the student poem called My Imagination is So Strong. Click here to watch video of the students' "Inspired Art" experience of painting and poetry performances, made possible by MIRA. |
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Save the Date for STL Celebrity Voices
We welcome all SCORES supporters to join us on Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at the inaugural STL Celebrity Voices. This event is a unique opportunity during National Poetry Month for celebrities to lend their voices to promote youth literacy in St. Louis.
New York Times Bestselling Author Ridley Pearson will chair the event, and celebrity guests will read poetry on The Sheldon stage. All proceeds from the event will support SCORES youth. For more information, visit www.stlcelebrityvoices.org. |
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Poetry is...
SCORES sees the power of poetry firsthand, as students become better readers, writers, and more confident speakers after engaging in creative writing and poetry performance.
We invite you to help us celebrate poetry in St. Louis. Original writing submissions from the community will be considered for inclusion in the STL Celebrity Voices program or a feature on the event website. We welcome you to submit your poem here, and join the spotlight! |
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