American Prodigy is a grass-roots mentorship group in Tulsa designed for youth 13 to 20 years old. Mentors do projects with students in the areas of health, business, culture, fine arts, and relationships. A health project might be creating a healthy desert or designing an aerobic program. Students and mentors use the American Prodigy workbook as an educational resource and journal. The workbook includes checklists of healthy habits, charts for making financial plans, and many more useful guides. Projects might only take one meeting to complete; like in the case of creating a healthy desert. Once completed though, the student chooses another project, perhaps creating an entire healthy dinner. Students may progress in one concentrated area like health or do projects in all 5 project areas. Mentors will generally meet with students at The Community House in West Tulsa This gives them the opportunity to talk through the project, brainstorm, and cultivate positive mentor-student relationships. . We also have The Camp which is just how it sounds, having a campout. Periodically we schedule The Camp either as day trips or overnighters. The Camp is filled with projects like cooking, workouts, relationship building, and fine arts performances. Students are even involved in planning The Camp as a business project. It is a great opportunity for mentorship out at The Camp because all the distractions of daily life are taken away. The same is true for The Trip; that�s what we call traveling to interesting places. Rolling down the road in a bus singing songs, taking pictures, talking about dreams for your life, that�s what The Trip is all about. It is pretty much The Camp on wheels. On the long bus rides from destination to destination the mentors will be able to get involved in students� lives by listening to them and being an encouraging voice. American Prodigy is simply a network for creative youth expression and mentorship. It is our desire for students in Tulsa to decide what youth culture they live in by creating it themselves. Mega corporations like MTV, Nike, and McDonald�s compete for the eyes, ears, and lives of our nation�s youth. It�s time the youth of America look to the future, listen to their hearts, and live out the full potential of their dreams. |
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