I will leave you with one action step….picture yourself on the day you graduated from high school. Did you possess the 6 competencies listed in the Portrait?

Common ground is what will help us (the village) raise each child.

Tom Pralley developed and will be teaching our first introductory stained glass class.

Things didn’t really go the way I expected, in a very good way.

The organization, strongly built on teen leadership and responsibility, is to be made up of students passionately involved in their communities’ well-being.

Skills in teamwork and design collaboration were vital in order to succeed in the end-of-week robot competition between students’ teams.

Providing space and time to grow and gain experience is what we do, and the more people we can involve in each of the opportunities that we provide, the better.

Working for more than three hours, the group made fifty colorful and multi-purpose bags for those visiting the Gospel Mission.

“Reclaim community ownership of the primary purpose of education”

All involved quickly learned that more than six hours would be needed to accomplish this task.

Having lived here for so long, and having been involved in the medical field in this area, we recognized an opportunity to provide great care for patients in this area.

I began researching what these organizations were doing well and what wasn’t working, in the eyes of a client.

His most memorable experiences at BB2C are seeing people's reactions to finishing and making something they didn’t think they could.

So, he designed protective gear and 3D printed it from the Makerspace 3D printers…

During the week of Warren’s spring break, we had a group of four students capturing water meter pits in the GIS system for the City of Belpre.

On Friday we will also be unveiling our newest & seventh space to the public - it’s a secret until Friday!

Effectively partnering with local businesses is a skill that has to be learned…DeeAnn has certainly helped us hone that skill.