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Upstate Class XVII, Spring 2014

Upstate Class XVII, Spring 2014

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Members of Team Marvel prepare for their capstone presentation.
Karen Schwartz, Through Our Eyes, explains an idea.
Yvonne Reeder and Tandy Taylor, The Bike Hubbers, enjoy a happy moment before the presentations begin.
Benny Walker gets the program started.
Leesa Owens (Riley Fellow, Upstate Class VIII)
Tish McCutchen begins Team Marvel's presentation.
Catriona Carlisle, Team Marvel
Brett Gaffney and Catherine Adams speak as guests of Team Marvel.
Nestor Acosta, Team Marvel
Matteel Jones, Team Marvel
Caroline Van Hook, Team Marvel, answers a question from the group.
Nancy Halverson, Through Our Eyes, makes a suggestion.
Juan Johnson, DLI facilitator
Barbara Martin begins the presentation for STEM in Motion.
The Bike Hubbers participate in a STEM activity created by the STEM in Motion team.
Through Our Eyes gives the STEM activity a shot.
Team Marvel forms a plan for the STEM activity.
The STEM Stars team organizes the material for the STEM activity.
The STEM Stars team builds a tower in the activity.
STEM in Motion team members were good sports and participated in the activity.
Tandy Taylor and Yvonne Reeder submit the Bike Hubbers' tower for judging in the STEM activity.
AD Williams, Jeff Stevens and Michelle Hunt work together to submit the STEM Stars' tower for judging.
Mike Noel discusses Berea High's partnership with STEM in Motion.
Marjorie Dowd provides input why Greenville County Schools values the partnership with STEM in Motion.
Leesa Owens (Riley Fellow, Upstate Class VIII) speaks as a guest of STEM in Motion from Michelin.
Nan Dempsey from the SC STEM Collaborative also partnered with STEM in Motion.
Tom Peters fields a question for STEM in Motion.
Adela Mendoza (Riley Fellow, Upstate Class VIII)
Melinda Hudson Gillispie, Through Our Eyes
Tom Peters along with Aline Vernat and Barbara Martin, STEM in Motion, score the activity submissions.
John Soapes, Through Our Eyes
Nancy Halverson and the rest of the Through Our Eyes group
Tom Peters, STEM in Motion, announces the winners of the activity.
The DLI staff members came in last in the STEM activity competition but had a good time participating despite the result!
Coby Hennecy, STEM Stars
Jeff Stevens, STEM Stars
Adolphus Williams, STEM Stars
Matt Gilley, STEM Stars
Michelle Hunt, STEM Stars
Nan Dempsey listens to the presentations.
Kristy Caradori (center) along with Coby Hennecy and Michelle Hunt answer questions about the STEM Stars project.
AD Williams, Coby Hennecy, Kristy Caradori and Michelle Hunt of STEM Stars.
Juan Johnson, DLI facilitator
Members of The Bike Hubbers sport t-shirts supporting Momentum Bike Clubs, their project partner.
Jamie Moon, The Bike Hubbers, introduces himself.
Yvonne Reeder, The Bike Hubbers, makes a memorable entrance.
Sara Montero-Buria, The Bike Hubbers
Yvonne Reeder, The Bike Hubbers
Jamie Moon, The Bike Hubbers
Lisa Mangione, The Bike Hubbers
David Taylor (Riley Fellow, Upstate Class XI) is the executive director of Momentum Bike Clubs and partnered with The Bike Hubbers.
Michele Brinn (Riley Fellow, Upstate Class III)
Kristy Caradori is welcomed into the Riley Fellow family.
Juan Johnson, Nancy Halverson and Calder Ehrmann take selfies.
Nancy Halverson and Crystal Hardesty about to receive their certificates.
Yvonne Reeder receives congratulations from Juan Johnson and Calder Ehrmann.
Jamie Saxon receives his graduation certificate.
The STEM Stars stand strongly united.
Yvonne Reeder and Don Gordon take selfies of their own.
Front (l-r): Sam Erwin, Matteel Jones, Dana Thorpe; middle (l-r): Jamie Saxon, Caroline Van Hook, Nestor Acosta; back (l-r): Tish McCutchen, Catriona Carlisle; Not Pictured: Don Byrd (Team Marvel)
Front (l-r): Barbara Martin, Jo Hackl, Aline Vernat; back (l-r): Bryant Nixon, Tom Peters, Alex Diaz; Not Pictured: Jessica Sharp (STEM in Motion)
Front (l-r): Melinda Gillispie, Nancy Halverson, Ana Parra; back (l-r): John Soapes, Crystal Hardesty, Karen Schwartz, Mike Alexander (Through Our Eyes)
Front (l-r): Kristy Caradori, Michelle Hunt, Coby Hennecy; back (l-r): Jeff Stevens, Matt Gilley, Adolphus Williams; Not Pictured: Horace Littlejohn, Billy Strickland (STEM Stars)
Front (l-r_: Sara Montero-Buria, Louise Connell, Yvonne Reeder, Jamie Moon; back (l-r): Daniel Wueste, Stinson Ferguson, Tandy Taylor, Lisa Mangione, Pierre Le Cleach (The Bike Hubbers)
Congratulations Upstate Class XVII Riley Fellows!

Team MARVEL

Diversity Inspired Youth (DIY) is an annual program designed to promote diversity, inclusion, understanding and collaboration amongst high school students in their 11th grade year. It will have, as its model, The Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative and will be targeted to high school youth in Greenville County.

STEM in Motion

Building on the success of a prior Capstone project (Class XIII), STEM in Motion aims at expanding the Dream Connectors program into a high school. Through an innovative partnership with Greenville County Schools and leveraging the strong network of various team members with business partners and local associations (such as Upstate STEM Collaborative, businesses, the Hispanic Alliance and Mentor Greenville), this exciting program formalizes an opportunity for Berea High School freshmen to learn about the academic and technical requirements, and soft skills required to succeed in a STEM career.

Through Our Eyes

The conversations that took place during the Spring 2014 Upstate DLI class were profound and impactful for this group, and created a desire to initiate similar, age-appropriate opportunities for the youth in the community. Through the 2014 IGNITE Summer Arts Camp, an annual camp offered by The Children’s Museum of the Upstate and the South Carolina Governor’s School for rising 7th and 8th graders throughout the state, the Through Our Eyes team had the opportunity to provide a unique experience.

STEM Stars: Plant a Seed and STEMs will Grow

Partnering with Spartanburg County School District 7’s Mary H. Wright Elementary (MHW), DLI’s STEM Stars will support the integration of STEM curriculum into MHW’s 4th and 5th grade classrooms by providing curriculum. The curriculum will consist of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ A World in Motion (AWIM) and the WeDo Lego Education. MHW will upfit an existing classroom so their students can use the new STEM curriculum in a lab-type environment.

The Bike Hubbers

Project Name: Building Capacity for Momentum Bike Clubs

Team 4 of the Spring 2014 Upstate DLI Class has chosen a capstone project designed to strengthen the capacity of Momentum Bike Clubs, which was itself the outcome of an earlier DLI capstone project. A community initiative of the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life at Clemson University, Momentum Bike Clubs provides mentoring support to youth living with multiple risk factors: persistent poverty, caregiver incarceration, and/or instability in home life.