Yesterday, I had the privilege of going to West Philadelphia High School to help the FirsTrust team there with their Starfish Corps graduation.
The West Philly team ran Starfish Corps, a mini-City Year for 3rd- through 5th grade students, at Lea Elementary this year. To cap off the students' year of service and lessons, the team led the students through a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood.
Starfish visited the library, the YMCA, Malcolm X Park, Barkan Park, and a Water Ice vendor, learning things about their neighborhood and city as they went.
The team that finished first received refurbished trophies courtesy Laura (who collected Irish dancing trophies earlier this year to give out to students) on the Shaw team (which makes up the other half of the FirsTrust West-Shaw Team).
Seeing the kids with the corps members they look up to, having friendly competition, and playing games to celebrate all they've done this year was one of the best afternoons I've had this year, which is saying a lot.
West is just one of many teams wrapping up Starfish Corps this and last week, so thanks for all your hard work, and congratulations to our Starfish!
Mega, 24, recruitment senior corps member
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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