Sidney

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Sidney Pacific Outreach Committee
(SPOC)Mentorship Program

• SP House Meeting
• July, 2003

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SPOC's Mission and Mentorship Program

• SPOC mission is to improve the interaction
  between the SP student community and the
  Cambridge community (area residents and local
  businesses)
• During 2002-03, several activities were organized
  (Open House, Pacific Street Park Party, etc.) for
  these communities to interact and exchange ideas
  on various issues of general concern
• Support of MIT and the Cambridge City Council has
  been and will continue to be instrumental for the
  success of this initiative
• In 2003-04 period, SPOC will launch the
  Mentorship Program (MP)
• MP is SPOCs flagship initiative and will serve
  as an overarching activity to implement SPOC's
  stated mission
• First Phase of the MP will cover the period
  Sept.- Dec. 2003

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Features of the First Phase
of the MP

• MP will involve SP volunteers as mentors and
  school children from the Cambridgeport area as
  mentees
• Mentors will work in pairs, with each pair being
  assigned 2-3 mentees
• Mentors will help mentees with their studies,
  focusing more on general concepts and their
  applications
• The MPs academic support activities will be
  supplemented with cultural, social and civic
  awareness, environmental, and athletic activities

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Features of the First Phase of
the MPCultural, Social and Civic Awareness
Activities

• Cultural
• Visits to museums (i.e. MIT Museum, Museum of
  Science, MFA, Aquarium, etc.)
• Visits to historical landmarks (Freedom Trail,
  USS Constitution, Lexington and Concord, etc.)
• Social and Civic Awareness
• Visits to senior-citizen home, children
  foster-home
• Visit to Cambridge Fire Station and fire-safety
  workshop with Cambridge Fire Dept.
• Street-Wise program with MIT Police
• How our City Government Works workshop with
  City Council representatives
• Pen-Pal program with children from other
  countries, for example in Latin America

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Features of the First Phase of
the MPEnvironmental and Athletic Activities

• Environmental
• Park cleanup activities
• Visits to nearby local parks, one-day camping
  trips, etc.
• Adopt-a-tree program
• Recycling workshop
• Athletic
• Joint Soccer-Buddy program with the Cambridge
  Youth Soccer and SP coaches
• Pacific Park Party II
• Nutritional workshop
• Attendance to Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins games
• More activities have been planned and will be
  implemented once the First Phase has been
  successfully achieved

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Time commitment and tentative schedule

• Logistics and implementation components of First
  Phase of MP are currently being worked out
• We plan to initiate First Phase of MP with 12
  14 mentors who will tutor 18 21 mentees
• Potential launch date in September 2003 (in line
  with the beginning of fall courses at schools)
• Launch date to be preceded by orientation meeting
  during which parents and mentees will visit SP
  and interact with mentors
• MP sessions will be in SP Multipurpose Room once
  a week (possibly Wednesday evenings) for a period
  of two hours
• Refreshments will be served during the sessions