April 7th - 10th

What a wonderful week here at Scott Carpenter! Many of the students came back from spring break feeling refreshed and ready to learn. In YESS, we reviewed the accountability ladder and created skits that demonstrated various levels of accountability. They did a wonderful job of writing and acting out their pieces and audience members were given the chance to guess which level of accountability they were witnessing. The kids had fun and solidified their knowledge of accountability.

Today, the students discussed what makes them happy, then they decorated hot air balloons to show what lifts their spirits.

The highlight of the week occurred on Thursday morning when two YESS students from SCMS were featured in the YESS Institute Road to Success Breakfast. The young men that spoke demonstrated maturity and grace while presenting their personal stories to a crowd of over 200 people. Naturally, the staff and students at Scott have given these two boys more kudos than they know what to do with and I couldn't be more proud of them.

This week also marked the beginning of recruitment season. The mentors and mentees have helped me distribute over 100 mentor applications and it seems that many of the current participants will be returning to YESS in the fall!