Valentines+Day+Service+Fair

To: STEM Academy Staff Sent Items, Advisory Curriculum Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:22 PM Your Advisory Curriculum Committee
 * Check out the service learning tab on our website and feed us information to populate it. We think that we will be linking to your advisory fusion pages as a way to disseminate information about the various service projects.
 * We want to celebrate Valentine's Day with a Service Learning "Fair" both lunch periods next Tuesday—an opportunity for your advisories to advertise what they are doing, recruit volunteers, let people know what they need—whatever. In the morning, look for resources to help you facilitate your advisees' planning for the fair.
 * Also, Tressie graciously agreed to publish blurbs about each project (5-8 sentences or so in length) in next Tuesday's //Access Point,// which is dedicated to the theme of love. If you delegate a student group to write your group's blurb and send it to her, she will pass it on to her staff. I think we should try to email those this Thursday during advisory, if possible. Thank you, Tressie!

To: STEM Academy Staff  Gryphons serve  Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:25 AM   Next Tuesday, we will not have normal Advisory meetings. We will be meeting in the Commons Area as a whole school. Each Advisory class will post a display board on a window in the Commons Area. This display board should describe your class service projects. After students get meals, one or two reps from each advisory will be given a microphone and 90 seconds to describe their project and invite participation. Don't get your hopes up, but we're hoping to provide a Valentine's treat at the end. Today in Advisory, your class should prepare their service display boards for Tuesday. Stephanie will be distributing them. Please ensure the display boards include the following: Thank you for your cooperation in making this a fun and influential experience.
 * Parameters for service displays boards** (Respect the boards :)--Please keep in mind that we plan to reuse these boards in the future.
 * Description of project, including who, what, when, where, **WHY**?
 * A sign-up sheet
 * Known needs (to make this project happen)

Students made posters of their projects and gave presentations to the school inviting classmates to participate in their projects: Campus Beautification (Worked with YES and STEM urban gardening) ||= Ellis Senior Centers (Visited Guy B. Love Towers) ||= Kennedy Elementary, Middle or Peer Tutoring ||= Knox — [|KARM] [|Monthly food service] || Fundraising and Project Management ||= Norton [|Friends of the Library] (Helped with book sale and led school tours) ||= Ogden Elementary, Middle or Peer Tutoring ||= Robbins Servant Artists (Organized "Science Street" at Festival of Reading on the World's Fair lawn) || Disaster Relief ||= Wood ||=  ||   || Our cafeteria manager helped us by baking Valentine's Day cookies.
 * = Coley
 * = Lawyer
 * = Smith

To: STEM Academy Students Cc: STEM Academy Staff Sent Items Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:04 AM      Everybody come to the Commons at the start of lunch. **Do not go through the line, yet**. Then, go through the line and eat lunch as on an enrichment day.
 * One or more representative of each group will stand near their poster and present for about 1 minute to give a report and invite participation in their project.
 * You may choose to participate in another project, if it is more aligned with your interests than the one you are planning, so **listen well.**

No regular advisory meeting today.

Thank you, Your advisors