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Home My WebLink AboutCRA-R-17-0025 BackupGIRL POWER 2017 Summer STEAM Camp Request for Support March 15, 2017 FROM: Thema Campbell, President/CEO World Literacy Crusade of FL, Inc. /Girl Power 1600 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 100 Miami, FL 33136 (305) 756-5502 themakgirlpowerrocks.org TO: Clarence E. Woods, III, Executive Director Southeast Overtown / Park West CRA 819 NW 2nd Ave., 3rd Floor Miami, Florida 33136 Phone: 305-679-6800 CWoods(c�r�,miami gov.com CShiverkmiamigov.com Page 1 of 4 Girl Power's STEAM Summer Camp (GPSSC) is an exciting hands-on learning opportunity for middle school girls, with a special emphasis on activities in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. GPSSC engages young girls in integrated learning experiences they explore the world around them, create innovative solutions to problems and communicate their results in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Girl Power embraces an educational model that integrates the arts into STEM: STEAM. GPSSC is a six week free, academic camp that emphasize increasing middle school girls' mathematics/science skills, introducing them to college life, and stimulating their interest in science and engineering as a potential career path while at the same time incorporating summer fun activities that help young girls grow into healthy and strong women who give back to their communities. Girls will participate in activities that include life skills, problem solving, study, research, writing skills incorporated with web and graphic design and field excursions. During the 6-week STEAM Camp girls will learn job skills and strategies to help develop their abilities to be successful on the job and in life. Girls will participate in job readiness activities that help build communication skills, interpersonal skills, decision making skills, lifelong learning skills, entrepreneurship, mock job interviews and visits to local businesses to participate in one-on-one pre -arranged real life job interviews. STEAM activities will be conducted by Girl Power's Staff members along with individuals from local colleges and universities, Code Fever, Girls Make Beats, PAMM, Institute of Contemporary Art and certified Miami - Dade County Public School teachers. Outcomes • To engage, cultivate interest and build skills in 30 low performing and high potential girls from the Overtown, Liberty City, Brownsville and Allapattah communities in the STEAM field. • Inspire young girls to pursue careers in STEAM fields. • Incorporate activities that enhance written and oral communication skills. • Present opportunities for under -exposed girls to interact with engineers, scientists, researchers, artists and other professionals. • Make summer fun and engaging for all girls! Camp Hours and Location Culmer Community Center in Overtown 1600 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 100 Miami, FL 33136 June 19th — July 31, 2017 Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Page 2 of 4 PRIMARY CAMP COMPONENTS Software Engineering, User Experience Design and Technology Entrepreneurship Facilitated by Code Fever Students will participate in an immersive learning experience, 2 days per week. The initial two weeks is an intensive training experience that includes a personal assessment using a strength finder's test (to identify girls strengths and areas for growth, training about personal brand, 21st century skill sets, soft skills, web design and the Code Fever website development toolset. Students are assigned a small business client and continue to work on websites with the objective of building client -ready site by the end other summer camp. Students learn the technical skills to build sites, team building skills, client engagement skills and attend targeted training sessions in technical and career skills. Girls learn to build at least two websites, their personal website and a client website for a small business in their community. Three sessions per week for two hours each session Job Skills Development Facilitated by Regions Bank and Camp Instructors We will discuss and incorporate the following job skills developments into the daily activity schedule: • Communication Skills: Read with Understanding; Convey Ideas in Writing; Speak so Others Can Understand; Listen Actively; and Observe Critically. • Interpersonal Skills: Guide Others; Resolve Conflict and Negotiate; Advocate and Influence; and, Cooperate with Others. • Decision Making Skills: Use Math to Solve Problems and Communicate; Solve Problems and Make Decisions; and, Plan. • Lifelong Learning Skills: Take Responsibility for Learning; Reflect and Evaluate; Learn Through Research; and, Use Information and Communications Technology. • Mock Job Interviews - Girls watch two model interviews, and use a checklist of interview dos and don'ts to evaluate each one. Then they use the list of common interview questions to participate in a mock interview with a partner. Partners take turns interviewing each other, and then assess each other using the interview checklist. Girls identify one strength and one thing they could improve. This activity takes place twice during the summer. • The final activity involves girls visiting a local business to participate in a one on one pre -arranged real life job interview. Two sessions per week for one hour each session Fitness Facilitated by Camp Instructors, Volunteers and Up2us Coach During the 6-week Summer STEAM Camp girls participate in one hour of fitness per day. The fitness activities train and educate girls on the importance of exercise and proper nutrition. Activities will consist of a sound nutritional program, daily healthy meals and snacks, fitness (yoga and dance), goal setting, teamwork, and most of all FUN! Five sessions per week for thirty minutes each session Page 3 of 4 Summer Spelling Competition Facilitated by Camp Instructors and Volunteers Encouraging young girls to participate in our annual Summer Spelling Bee competition provides a valuable educational experience. There will be many other benefits from this fun summer activity including learning grammar, enhancing their knowledge, competitive spirit and vocabulary, and develop their cognitive skills, confidence and public speaking skills. Trophies and prizes are awarded to 1st, 2"d and 3rd place winners. One Mock Spelling Bee and One Competition. The Arts Facilitated by PAMMand Institute of Contemporary Art Research shows that girls who are involved in arts programs and activities especially in under-resourced communities are more likely to win an academic award, to receive a community service award, more likely to win a school attendance award, more likely to participate in a math or science fair and score higher on their SAT college admission test scores if they have been involved for more than four years of after -school and summer arts study. At Girl Power we take our art very seriously and have engaged a plethora of art partners to ensure our girls have a summer that include the arts. Our partners include Perez Art Museum Miami, Institute for Contemporary Art and Yoga Gangsters Two sessions per week for one hour per session Math and Science Labs Facilitated by Miami Dade County Public Schools Teachers Summer is the time for fun! It's also the time when academic skills can slip, making it hard for girls to maintain the progress they have worked so hard to achieve. The Math Labs are designed to help each girls discover her strengths, exercise her creativity, overcome academic difficulties, and prepare for the school year ahead. Through the exploration of math and science labs girls benefit from the continuity necessary for maintaining academic progress. Four sessions per week for one hour per session Field Trips Our summer field trips allow students to visit a variety of cultural institutions, including art, natural history and science museums, the theatre and beaches. We see these experiences as central to our summer camp mission. The majority of our girls is at a disadvantage and is less likely to have these experiences outside of Girl Power. Our summer field trips culminates with a day trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, where they will explore Space Shuttle Atlantis, tour NASA's spaceflight operations, interact with science exhibits and so much more. Students will have some fun during our stop at Rapids Water Park in Riviera Beach, FL. Six Field Trips during the Summer Camp with duration of three to four hours One Field Trip to Kennedy Space Center from 6am to 10pm Total Cost of 6-week Summer STEAM Camp: $31,628 Total Reqest to CRA: $10,000 Page 4 of 4 Girl Power 2017 Summer STEAM Camp Budget Salaries and Fringes Full-time Camp Director to manage the day-to-day functions of the camp, oversee the implementation of the camp curricula, oversee Camp Director camp counselors and other employees including assessing work performance and taking disciplinary measures when necessary. $0 Manage, hire and train staff and interns. Full-time Assistant Camp Director to assist Camp Director in carrying out the day-to-day functions of the camp including direct Assistant Camp Assistant supervision of staff and volunteers, lead all fitness activities and liaison between camp students and other year round agency. Oversee $3,200 tracking of attendance, program and outcome data. $20 per hour x 8 hours per day x 8 weeks = $6, 400. Approximately %2 of this amount is charged to another. funder. Miami Dade County Public Facilitate summer academic science and math labs in a fun day camp environment. Build student skills and explore alternative ways of teaching $1,200 School Teachers (2) math and science with enthusiasm and creativity. $25 per hour x 4 hours per week x 6 weeks x 2 people. Assist with age appropriate activities that keep girls active and help them develop skills, teamwork and sportsmanship. Use group management Camp Counselors x 2 $0 (Summer Interns) skills to engage all girls in daily activities. Fringes FICA/MICA @ 7.65% $337 Other Operating Cost Student T-shirts Summer Camp t-shirts @ two shirts per student x 30 students @ $6.50 per shirt $390 Supplies and Materials Printing, curriculums, materials, postage, marketing, spelling bee wards and fitness materials and supplies $1,600 Technology / App Development Software Engineering, User Experience Design, Technology Entrepreneurship and Pitch Training/Competition $10,000 STEM Programming Tool Kits Materials and resources to help students to successfully navigate through the STEM program and activities. $162 per student x 30 students $4,860 Recording Arts Production Girls get hands-on knowledge and educational experience in a real world environment centered on success in the Audio Engineering, music $2,345 Music Engineering production, live sound mixing and sound design. Student Stipends $225 per week student stipends x 30 students x 6 weeks $6,750 Student Transportation Transportation at $100 per week x 6 weeks, include gas for the van and field trip fees = $600. Charged to another funder 0 Recognition Ceremony End of Summer Camp Ceremony attended by students, parents, community partners, funders and media. Students will present their tangible $1,000 product to the community. Students will also receive awards for outstanding work during the SREAM Camp TOTAL $31,628