MIRA team members set up a calendar with each member being responsible for one week of activities. The supplies were bought with MIRA funds and activities have ranged from learning about sharks to a murder mystery activity. When we visited, the students were tie-dyeing t-shirts. Others were doing homework with help from their mentors.
The two original MIRA team members are high school juniors and are in the process of recruiting sophomores as their replacements. It's interesting that although none of the
current four high school MIRA members is thinking of child development as a career, all have learned that they like to work with people. They see MIRA as a club.
To recruit more children and volunteers, the MIRA team has put up advertisements in the schools, gone to the classrooms for face-to-face marketing and have had the support of the Athens school principal.
Future plans include another visit by ELP, a spring mural project and possibly extending service to elementary children.
This group's collective leadership and dedication to the success of the project have made the program a continuing success.
With $9000 in MIRA funds left, the team has purchased two laptop computers (one for school work and one for games) and plans to invest the remaining money.
