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Northwoods –DREAM Quarterly Report June – August 2016 Greetings from DREAM! The Northwoods DREAM program has finished up another wonderful fall semester of activities. Here is a summary of all the Northwoods DREAM happenings from the last quarter.
Highlights from the quarter include:
In March the mentors left for Spring Break! Mentors held a Gift Basket Raffle to help fund their spring culminating trip to Canobie Lake Park. Mentors held their annual Experience Auction to raise money for culminating. Fellow students were invited to bid on services, items, and experiences provided by the mentors. They raised $1000! DREAM held its annual Teen Retreat! Teens were invited to participate in a service project at Billings Farms followed by an afternoon of rock climbing and pizza. Mentor Ross met up with his mentee Tyler for an evening of pizza in Hanover, games, and even a little reading! Mentors Rachel and Gautam took a small group to the movies on a Saturday. This month the mentors started fundraising for High Adventure 2017. So far the group has raised $2,950. We are happy to announce that DREAM will have Mona Abdelghani and Lael Daigle as AmeriCorps members this summer. They are both former mentees in the program and will be running summer programming in all three of the Dartmouth DREAM communities. We are thrilled to have both of them! All three Dartmouth DREAM programs went to Canobie Lake Park for a fantastic day filled with roller coasters and other thrills! Mentors had community dinner in the community center. Mentors and mentees worked together to cook burritos! For the last DREAM Friday of the Spring Term mentors and mentees gathered to celebrate graduating mentors and one graduating mentee! Nakaya Mitchell, mentee for 10 years, graduated from high school. She will be attending New England School of Hair Design in West Lebanon! Mentors also held a senior night. The seniors got together to talk about the challenges with transitioning away from their mentee and how to have a conversation about relationship closure.
Fridays:
In March there was only one DREAM, mentors and mentees did one-on-one activities. In April there were four DREAM Fridays. Pairs went to Farm Fresh, an on campus farmers market where Earth Day activities were also taking place.
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