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These winter weeks have been busy for FLOW programs. Despite the snow, our mentors and mentees have had some special outings and events and they've continued to do many fun classroom activities. Throughout all of it, they've been enjoying some important times of connection.
Those of us behind the scenes love hearing about how these relationships are developing and strengthening: it's just what this program is all about!
Thank you to all of you who've put your heart and soul into making this program a success. We couldn't do it without you.
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Thanks to all who turned out for the
St. Mary's College of MD Seahawks basketball game!
It was huge fun to gather so many members of the FLOW Mentoring community together in support and celebration of our own FLOW program
and National Mentoring Month.
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FLOW Mentoring students, mentors, and their families
and supporters at the game.
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Thank You.
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Congratulations
to our two Middle School
T-Shirt Design Contest Winners!!  The annual Middle School FLOW t-shirt design contest was held last November. Submissions were gathered from all the middle schools, and judges Theo Cramer and Mark Smith chose the winning design from among a number of fabulous entries.
Congratulations go out to Monesha and Krista, pictured above, of Spring Ridge Middle School, the co-designers and joint winners of this year's competition. They were presented with certificates in acknowledgement of their achievement and were the first students to receive their T-shirts.
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Close-of up of winning design.
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The Spring Ridge FLOW group in their brand new T-shirts!
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Please note: Our FLOW middle and high school programs are funded through a grant from OJJDP. These funds allow us to host this contest and provide t-shirts for our middle school programs. Every year we look for donations from non-profits and individuals interested in supporting the same opportunity for our elementary programs. Unfortunately, we did not get these funds this year.
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Middle and High School FLOW
at Hoyas Game!
On February 2, a large group of middle and high school FLOW participants went up on buses to DC to see the Georgetown Hoyas take on the St. John's Red Storm at the Verizon Center. Word is it was a great game and everyone had a fabulous time!
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Some of the LHS students outside the Verizon Center
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FLOW Mentoring in Action
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Happy scenes and activities from the
FLOW mentor/mentee group at Oakville Elementary!
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Dynard Elementary
Dynard's FLOW Mentors and Mentees recently enjoyed the fun activities of making slime and pine cone bird feeders together. The bird feeders were hung in our Dynard Forest, contributing to their Green School efforts.
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Chopticon High School
Last week, Chopticon FLOW had a guest speaker come to speak with the group. Rand Eller is retired from Information Systems and Technology for Finance. He's pictured below standing with a CHS FLOW Mentee.
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Chesapeake Public Charter School
The CPCS FLOW group recently engaged in two fun activities -- in the pictures below, some pairs are making duck tape art and some are making t-shirts.
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Lettie Marshall Dent Elementary
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Mentoring in the News
"We must offer children SUPPORT, ENCOURAGEMENT, and a VISION of what is possible in their lives."
-- 2013 National Mentoring Summit Opening Video
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View Photos, Videos and Presentations From January's Inspiring and Motivational Mentoring Summit:click here to read on
Middle School Moment at the National Mentoring Summit Connects Youth Mentoring
The positive power of youth mentoring was embodied in a teen girl named Omarina, who told the audience of
650 youth mentoring advocates for the 2013 National Mentoring Summit, "I am not a statistic. I am a story."
Introduction of the Peace First Prize
Eric Dawson is the president and co-founder of Peace First, a non-profit organization and national movement organized to celebrate young people and their potential to create positive change around them. At the Mentoring Summit, Dawson introduced the Peace First Prize, a prize which Dawson referred to as the "Nobel Peace Prize for Young People" and one which will recognize meaningful peacemaking work that creates lasting good in a community, neighborhood or school. It offers $50,000 fellowships to five recipients to continue their peacemaking work. MENTOR is one of 20 national sponsors and partners for this initiative. click here to read about it |
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BECOME A MENTOR in 2013-14
We need you.
They need you.
How can I apply?
We are recruiting now for the 2013-14 school year! To apply to become a Mentor please complete and return a FLOW Mentoring Mentor Application and a SMCPS Volunteer Application. Please click on the links below to view printable versions of each application.
When you have completed both applications, please mail, fax, or email the applications to:
Sarah R. Tyson, FLOW Mentoring IRT FLOW Office Location: Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center 24005 Point Lookout Road Leonardtown, MD 20650 Phone: 301-475-0242 ext. 148 Fax: 301-475-0245 srtyson@smcps.org |
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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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