Who We Are
We are 4th through 7th grade students at North Side Elementary and Indian Trail Middle School in Johnson City, Tennessee. We are taking part in a mentoring program funded through a grant by the Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools initiative and administered through East Tennessee State University's Center for Community Outreach and Family Services.

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What We're Doing
Throughout the 2005 school year we will be concentrating on two major things:

* What we want to be in life.
* How we will accomplish that goal.

To help us answer these important questions we will be doing some FUN and EDUCATIONAL activities:

* Meeting with service learning students from the local university to help us with academics so we can build the foundations we will need later on for a career doing something we love and that is beneficial to others.

* Meeting with mentors from our immediate community to find out how area professionals made their dreams come true.

* Job-shadowing people who already have careers doing the things we want to do when we get older.

* Going on field trips to local businesses and places that help prepare young people for the world of work.

* Getting hands-on experience with digital video technology by using camcorders to create our own artistic works.

* Using a professional broadcasting studio to produce short, television-quality shows and radio programming.

* Learning how all the components of a PC work together---and then building our own custom computer from scratch.