Hello everyone!

CHANGE OF PLANS: I moved this meeting to Thursday, Feb 19th at 9pm in the Trezevant Conservatory. sorry for the confusion!


I'm using the blog! How exciting!

1st annual Springdale Elementary MULTICULTURAL FAIR UPDATE: I reserved East Village Lounge for 9pm on Wednesday, February 18th (this coming Wednesday!!) for our official AME interest meeting. Frantically emailing and scrounging around for participants, as expected. Anyway, please tell anyone you know who might be interested to attend this meeting! It would also rock if you guys wanted to come and answer questions when I blank on any reasonable answer.

Breakthrough Update: So, yesterday I met with two women from MCS Optional Schools Program about starting Breakthrough, and they were thrilled with the idea. They asked all sorts of interesting questions, and we spoke for an hour and a half. As we were leaving they promised to propose it to their supervisor, and would get back to me asap. Also, they don't think doing it at Rhodes is a good idea...not because of socioeconomic status, race relations, etc, but because there are apparently laws about bringing food onto campus. Additionally one of the ladies, Sandy, had done an AP program at Rhodes before and so has worked with Rhodes regarding summer programs with high school students--and apparently, Rhodes does not really like the idea of having teenagers running around the campus all summer. Thus, they want to look a a few of the neighborhood schools as different possibilities for host institutions and keep Rhodes as a backup for field trips, etc. So, there is the update! It was a great meeting. 

Salutations,

So, I thought this might be an interesting alternative that would help us to keep up to date on each other's projects on our own time. So, I have some news for our project--Linda Skylar, who is in charge of MCS optional schools program, and I finally got in touch with one another--and she put me in contact with another two women. These women emailed me this afternoon, and I am meeting with them next Tuesday to discuss starting Breakthrough in Memphis!

How are AME and REP progressing this week?