Meet our two new Junior Program Assistants (JPA) Faust and Caitlin! The youth are broken down into smaller groups of 5-7 called “houses”. They are led by one adult (Head of House) and one Youth (Head of House) called a Junior Program Assistant (JPA). The adult leader and JPA work together as co-partners in their […]
History is an interesting concept. It is told by those who won or were victorious in their endeavors, yet it is a one sided account. This all comes back to the concept of perspective. Let’s take two very well known examples of what we are talking about. Thanos from the Avengers and Draco from the […]
There has been a lot of media around the Southside Stars Youth Zone the past week. The thing we are most excited about though, is that our youth took an active part in the interviews! This is the first time they have had the opportunity to play a larger role in the media capacity. Yet, […]
“Provide a child with an opportunity, and watch them shoot to the stars with it.” The above video shows just some of the things our youth have done the past three weeks. Science experiments, character creation, designing/ engineering a boat to solve a problem, and painting with crystals at the East Branch Library (EVPL). Robotics […]
The 3rd grade class at Good Shepherd School and Ms Maria heard through one of our volunteers, Shannon Heck, that we had been focusing heavily on literacy. She told them about some of the challenges they faced and how books have became our number one request. After hearing that, the Good Shepherd students decided to […]
Please welcome Mary Elsa! She will be coming on board the SSYZ staff in June! Mary is a Tepe Park resident, mother of two of our youth, and has been volunteering with us since January. Prior to moving to Evansville she was a preschool teacher in Mexico and has spent many years learning a variety […]
Wow what a whirlwind week! Just in case you missed anything…
Sometimes we do something for so long that it becomes common place for us. We forget what it was like before that change happened. Today was one of those reminder moments for me. Joann Hunter is a librarian at the East Branch Library. She designs and runs our programming that is held there, but has […]
Debbie Calhoun from Bits & Bytes Computer Club came to the SSYZ this evening!The kids were beyond excited and loved getting to understand some basics about robotics and coding. Bits & Bytes meet the 2nd and 4th Sat of every month at the Central Library from 9:30-11:30am. We highly recommend this program to any youth […]
Last Thursday at the Leadership Evansville (now Leadership Everyone) Celebration the Southside Stars Youth Zone won the Sam Featherstone Youth Award. We were so excited so many of our families were able to join us! Cathy Davidson and myself had many people congratulating us, but the truth is this particular award belongs to many people. […]