Lakeside Education and Enrichment Program
(LEEP)
LEEP is a program for young people as they transition
from middle to high schools. Each summer, approximately
100 young people, identified by adults in their Seattle
communities as having the potential to achieve more
than they currently do, join a group of dedicated
staff and mentors who prepare them for high school.
The emphasis is on creating a positive peer community
and safe space where these young people can begin
to see their own academic and social potentials. LEEP
follows these young people through high school, offering
support and guidance toward their goals and college
educations.
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Rowing is a daily part of LEEP, serving as
a metaphor for risk taking through trying something
new, teamwork, communication, leadership opportunity,
sportsmanship, and other life skills. Five days
a week for five weeks, 40 students get on the
water in rotating 1.5 hour shifts as they work
together to move boats, learn the basic rowing
stroke, and eventually race one another in a
mini-regatta at the end of their program. |
To learn more about this program,
click here: http://www.lakesideschool.org/leep/Lrowing.shtml
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Orion Center's TREC Summer
Rowing Program
The Orion Center is a "YouthCare" program that serves
homeless and street dependent youth in Seattle. The
Orion Center has a special program, TREC, which aims
to use activities in the community to teach clients
life skills. Rowing at the Pocock Rowing Center is
one such activity. Through rowing, participants are
able to experience and then reflect on how they deal
with learning a new skill, working as member of a
team, receiving feedback, and valuing their own successes
and hard work.
Initially, this rowing program was made available
to the Orion Center's clients, but later expanded
to include young people from several of YouthCare's
area shelters. YouthCare services include residential
centers specializing in emergency, short-term, and
transitional housing as well as adjunct facilities
such as the Orion Center which serves these young
people through a drop in center, GED and school programs,
job skills training and counseling. The Orion Center
also offers showers, laundry facilities, and hot meals
for young people to age 22.
Due to a high turnover in their participants, summer
rowing programs have been offered in a "camp format"
where participants attend Monday-Friday for one or
two-week camps supported by 1-2 coaches, experienced-rower-volunteers,
and several program staff from YouthCare.
To learn more about this program, click here:
Technology Access Foundation
Rowing Camp
| The 2007 Technology Access Foundation (TAF)
team ran its first successful rowing program
this summer at MBRC. Rowing twice a week, young
teens enrolled in their IT Internship program
learned to row all-eights and love it. TAF used
rowing both as a technical tool for exploring
the physics of movement as well as a reward,
reflection, and transference opportunity for
students who had worked hard in their internships
all year. |
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More pictures can be seen at:
http://www.amyndave.com/tafrowing/tafrowing.html
To learn more about TAF, click here:
http://www.techaccess.org
Zion Preparatory Academy Rowing
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Zion Prep is a grade school in Seattle’s South
end with a mission “to ensure academic excellence
in a supportive Afrocentric, Christian based
environment”. In this program, 7th and 8th graders
who often live near Seattle’s Lake Washington
yet largely come from non-boating and non-swimming
backgrounds learn about water comfort, boating
safety, rowing, sailing, and kayaking as part
of their PE program. The school provides funding
and transportation while the boathouse provides
safe coaches, equipment and curriculum. |
The program has been hosted by the Mount Baker Rowing
and Sailing Center, a Seattle Parks Department facility,
for the past several years. Initially a rowing program,
in 2006 the program expanded to make use of all the
small crafts available at Mt. Baker. In addition, the
first two weeks of the program were spent at a local
swimming pool getting used to the water and having fun.
From there the program progresses to sailing and rowing,
and then finally to kayaking when the weather warms
up. Participants are eligible to continue to participate
with the Zion program throughout their middle school
careers.
To learn more about this program,
click here:
http://www.zionprep.org/index.htm
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