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Responsibilities of Tutors (Catherine Moore 05-06)

Member Name: Catherine Moore

Service Site: Twelfth Baptist Church

Location: Roxbury, MA

Project Focus:

In this presentation, Catherine Moore briefly goes over the responsibilities of tutors at an after-school program and describes how they fit into the "big picture" of program services.

The Fundamentals of Sketching Curriculum (John Tallacksen 07-08)

Member Name: John Tallacksen

Service Site: First EV Free

Site Location: Los Angeles, CA

Project Description:

John's year-long replicable project is a very detailed 11-week curriculum with focus on drawing and sketching. This is an 11-week course where a class will meet once a week for 45 minutes to an hour. Each week's lesson plan is designed to inspire and inform students on how to express themselves through art.

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Eight Principles of Leadership (Janelle Britton 07-08)

Member Name: Janelle Britton

Service Site: Greenwood Shalom

Site Location: Boston, MA

Project Description:

For her TechMission Corps project, Janelle created a Powerpoint presentation, outlining characteristics and principles of positive leadership.

Topics include:

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Poetry Mini-Lesson (Shanica Charles 04-05)

Member Name: Shanica Charles

Service Site: Greenwood Shalom After-School Program @ Greenwood United Methodist Church

Location: Dorchester, MA

Lesson Description:

This lesson plan from Shanica Charles' 2004-05 replicable project illustrates how to use computers and the Internet in a lesson on poetry. It is adaptable to both early primary and late primary/middle school students.

How to Create a Library at your site (Crystal Spencer 07-08)

Member Name: Crystal Spencer

Service Site: The Crossing

Site Location: Denver, CO

Project Description: Crystal's year-long project focuses on creating and maintaining a library for an after-school program. Crystal documented her advice in a PowerPoint presentation. Crystal covers:

How to Categorize books
Labeling and organizing books
Checking out books
- Also includes a sample checkout sheet
Information on Electronic Library system

After-school Activities Idea Book (Laura Coonrod 07-08)

Member Name: Laura Coonrod

Service Site: Circle Urban Ministries

Site Location: Chicago, IL

Project Description: Laura Coonrod's year-long project focuses on a book of fun and inexpensive resource activity ideas for after-school programs. Laura outlines needed supplies and preparatory advice for each activity with photographed samples.

Activities include:

Table Art
Body Tracing with paper
Creating Mosaic Picture
Sample educational worksheets
Hidden pictures and word searches
Cooking
Music
Games

Sudan Project (John Manyiel 05-06)

Member Name: John Manyiel

Project Description:

This presentation describes how John Manyiel organized distribution of computer hardware and software to computer centers within the Sudan, in an effort to improve levels of education within the country.

After-School Program Director's Manual (Teresa Pregizer 06-07)

Member Name: Teresa Pregizer

Service Site: S.A.Y Yes! Pico Union

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Project Focus:

This project outlines how Teresa Pregizer created a detailed manual for the director and mentor positions at S.A.Y. Yes! in order to make sure institutional knowledge of resources and best practices is retained from year to year, even if there is staff turnover. In this way, future directors will better be able to build on previous experience, rather than starting over from scratch.

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Passport Program (Sonia Miranda-Lopez 07-08)

Member Name: Sonia Miranda-Lopez

Service Site: Boston Higher Education Resource Center (HERC)

Location: Boston, MA

Project Focus:

Sonia Miranda-Lopez's year-long project produced a manual for coordinators of the Passport Program, a college advising and enrichment program for high school juniors and seniors at the Boston HERC. This manual includes many helpful tools for Passport coordinators, including rules and guidelines, checklists for weekly sessions, templates for documents and resource lists, as well as exercises to do with the students.

Defining Program Outcomes (Jennifer Hicks 05-06)

Member Name: Jennifer Hicks

Service Site: Central City Community Outreach

Project Description:

In this project, Jennifer Hicks not only describes how the SAY Yes program at Central City Community Outreach developed a plan of action to achieve its goals, she also offers guidance on how to set appropriate and measurable goals (or outcomes) for after-school programs in general.

Boys' Club (Bryn Whitmore & Marquis Robinson 08-09)

Members' Names: Bryn Whitmore & Marquis Robinson

Service Site: Harambee Christian Family Center

Site Location: Pasadena, CA

Project Description:

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Open Door Computer Lab Manual (Molly Orr 08-09)

Member Name: Molly Orr

Service Site: Open Door Ministries

Site Location: Denver, CO

Project Description:

Molly spent her second TechMission Corps service year with Open Door Ministries in Denver, Colorado. At Open Door, Molly helped to set up the site's computer lab and in the process, created a computer lab manual as her second year-long project.

In Molly's manual, she cites the importance of Internet Safety (as well as some useful resources), computer assessments, educational software, and some recommended popular websites for children.

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Leadership Issue and Volunteer Recruitment and Training (Alicia Ingram 08-09)

Member Name: Alicia Ingram

Service Site: Cross Roads of the Rockies

Site Location: Denver, CO

Project Description:

Alicia spent her second TechMission Corps service year with Cross Roads of the Rockies in Denver, Colorado. At Cross Roads, Alicia helped create, implement, and evaluate her site's volunteer system. Her project includes a volunteer recruitment folder, an orientation outline, volunteer training, and advice for volunteer retention.

The Reading Road-Trip Manual: Molly Orr (07-08)

Member Name: Molly Orr

Service Site: Open Door Ministries

Site Location: Denver, CO

Project Description: Molly Orr created an after-school curriculum called the Reading Road-Trip Manual for her students at Denver's Open Door Ministries.

The Reading Road-Trip curriculum is designed for after-school programs as a supplemental reading program for kids, staff, and volunteers. The unique utilization of an American road-trip map gives students a creative and simplistic way to track their reading while also learning US geography. As a rewards-based incentive, the reading map can easily be monitored by teachers, tutors, students, and parents to fully submerse the students into the program.

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Designing a Simple but Modern Website with Photoshop (Joel Jurado 07-08)

Member Name: Joel Jurado

Service Site: First Evangelical Free

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Project Focus: In this powerpoint presentation, Joel Jurado provides step-by-step guidelines on designing a modern website with Photoshop software.

Tips include:

How to create a silhouette
Customizing your website with text, pictures, or drawings
Adding links to your website
Exporting your website to the web

Passport Program (Sonia Miranda-Lopez 07-08)

Member Name: Sonia Miranda-Lopez

Service Site: Boston Higher Education Resource Center (HERC)

Location: Boston, MA

Project Focus:

After-school Activities Idea Book (Laura Coonrod 07-08)

Member Name: Laura Coonrod

Service Site: Circle Urban Ministries

Site Location: Chicago, IL

Activities include:

Table Art
Body Tracing with paper
Creating Mosaic Picture
Sample educational worksheets
Hidden pictures and word searches
Cooking
Music
Games

Eight Principles of Leadership (Janelle Britton 07-08)

Member Name: Janelle Britton

Service Site: Greenwood Shalom

Site Location: Boston, MA

Project Description:

For her TechMission Corps project, Janelle created a Powerpoint presentation, outlining characteristics and principles of positive leadership.

Topics include:

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Volunteer Handbook (Rebekah Bolin 07-08)

Member Name: Rebekah Bolin

Service Site: Central City Community Outreach

Site Location: Los Angeles

Project Description:

Rebekah's TechMission Corps year-long replicable project is a Volunteer Handbook for her service site at Central City. Her powerpoint presentation provides general information on:

Ways to Give (i.e. in-kind donations, donation drives)
Mentoring Research
Rewards and challenges of volunteering
Additional resources for volunteerism
Recommended articles on poverty, race relations, and the history of Skid Row
Ways to volunteer

Volunteer Recruitment: Creating a Volunteer Wiki & Doing Online Campaigns (Christiana Gunn 06-07)

Member Name: Christiana Gunn

Service Site: TechMission

Site Location: Dorchester, MA

Project Focus:

In this presentation, Christiana Gunn describes how to create a freely-editable resource on volunteering (a wiki) and how to promote your volunteering resources to partners such as urban ministry organizations and churches.