Last week I spent a few hours at Penrickton Center for Blind Children. It was an enlightening and inspiring few hours! The Center is amazing - from the learning modalities to the color to the staff and children, it was certainly a lot to take in. Below are some pictures from my visit and I hope that you can gain a feel for what this Center does for children, their families and their futures!

One of the strong points of working with Alternatives in Motion this school year and in the past is that they work so well with local communities. If there is a need in your community - someone needs mobility assistance, they work closely with the school to fundraise and promote events. This is a wonderful way to raise money because the schools know where the money is going and they can see it firsthand. For us here on staff at MASC/MAHS, we've always worked with the Charity of the Year in a very different way. We facilitate the process between them and the member schools. This year, something happened that allowed us a unique interaction with our Charity of the Year, Alternatives in Motion. Below is a letter I wrote to the staff of Alternatives in Motion (AIM) today...

While there were only about 100 advisers there, the energy that circulated made it feel like twice as many! This past Thursday/Friday, January 24-25, we hosted advisers from around Michigan at the Annual State Advisers Conference in Mt. Pleasant. We kicked off the evening with Karen Dawson, who shared tales of humor and inspiration and provided advisers some much needed laughs and the reinforcement to keep doing what they're doing - leading student leaders. Who knew you could do so much with a paper plate!?!?

I was excited to meet up with some Level 2 students and staff from Camp '07 this past week at Avondale High School, and it was quite interesting to see where they are with their Passion to Action projects...

Every year lately brings excitement, new events and new ideas to explore. I hope that in your schools, you see that too!