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Issue #37 | March 2021
Hello Changemakers - from all of us here at United Way Youth Venture/Changemaking and the Portrait of a Graduate team.

There is a lot to share this month as there are several exciting announcements, including:

  • The Portrait of a Graduate DRAFT portrait is ready for viewing and feedback!
  • UWYV Scholarship Applications are now being accepted, due on or before March 26
  • Portrait of a Graduate Student Art Show at Fitchburg Art Museum, March 10 - April 12 - Art Show is LIVE!
  • Student Art Show and Community Listening Session, March 30
  • Healthy Minds, Well-Being for Well-Doing, Virtual Youth Conference, April 14
  • Next Changemaker Camp, Parent & Teacher Well-Being, April 15.

We are still looking for volunteers for the Healthy Minds Virtual Conference! Click here to access the flyer for more information and a link to complete the volunteer form.

As always, we appreciate you and thank you for your continued support! And please click the icons just below to follow us on social media! Thank you!

~the United Way Youth Venture Team!
Scholarship applications are still being accepted.

Each year the UWYV staff are proud to support outstanding Venturers by awarding $1,000 and $2,000 scholarships to graduating seniors and current college students who exemplify leadership and changemaking.

Students can self nominate or be nominated by another.


Applications are due before March 26, 2021.

Copy the link below to share this opportunity.
Healthy Minds: Well-Being for Well-Doing is a North Central MA-wide effort to bring health and real-world skill building opportunity to our students!

On Wednesday, April 14—that’s three days before April vacation!—we are hosting a free virtual field trip 
for students in grades 2 through 12. The event is scheduled conveniently on what is an asynchronous learning day for most schools, from 10-2 after morning meetings have concluded and before the school day wraps up. Our hope is that this event will be a nice compliment to a school week where student and teacher energy is flagging before vacation begins.

Registration is opening soon. Stay tuned!

Click the graphic above to access the flyer filled with additional information, including volunteer opportunities!
The Portrait of a Graduate
STUDENT ART SHOW IS LIVE!

Take a moment to read through the wonderful artist statements and comment on the art!

What is cooler than students having their works displayed in an art museum?

This art show is part of a body of qualitative research of what young people in North Central MA want from their school experience. We are partnered with Inspire to Change, a St. Paul-based organization specializing in coaching, facilitation, and research, with a particularly unique ability to extract meaningful knowledge from arts-based methods. This art show is a vehicle to help us understand what students of all ages envision for their ideal learning experience.
Please give us your feed back on our draft portrait.
What high school students need to know and be able to do for success in college, career and community.
Click on the draft Portrait above to learn more and to provide feedback!
Next Changemaker Camp!

Parent & Teacher Well-Being


COVID has drastically changed what learning looks like and how relationships between school and home are shaped. It has also significantly--and often negatively--affected our individual health.
 
Join Vipin Thekk and Changemaker friends during this third installment of Changemaker Camps--like our other Camps, this too has three parts with an optional fourth session for feedback and reflection. Created in partnership with the PBS television network and Ashoka, this Changemaker Camp is intended to forge stronger connection between teachers and educators at school (that's you!) and teachers at home--parents.

With the recent changes announced for K-12 school scheduling, the majority of our colleagues are handling yet another period of extreme uncertainty. For this reason we are modifying this third installment of our Changemaker Camp to be just one initial 90 minute session and we are pushing back the start date. 

Attendees during the first meeting will have time to discuss with Vipin and Lauren their desired next steps – to schedule another support session right away or wait a bit? 

This date is Thursday, April 15 from 4-5:30.
Interested in writing for the official UWYV blog? Our audience wants to hear from YOU!

The Venturer Voice blog seeks students, Champions, Allies and community contributors to write pieces for our official blog!