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Email #3 - May 20, 2016
MassSTAR Update- Service Project Info and More Staff Intros!
Hello again, 2016 MassSTAR Delegates and Parents!
We cannot wait to meet you and to spend three OUTSTANDING days talking about community, ways to make a difference in the world, and engaging in thoughtful conversation with our peers!
The 3-Day MassSTAR Citizenship Conference is sponsored by the Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation (MYL Foundation). The MYL Foundation’s mission is to empower citizenship. Student leaders affect great change and MYL Foundation motivates students and provides them with the necessary tools to develop into strong leaders. The MassSTAR Citizenship Conference helps them to expand the talents that will serve them, their schools, and their communities well into the future.
Trivia Time:
The STAR in MassSTAR refers to STudents Accepting Responsibility. If you click here, you can read about the five pillars of the organization that we focus on for the weekend.
This Week's 411:
Below is some important information for you to read before the Conference.
This includes information about our service project for Saturday and our request for your donation of an item. Also, meet some more of our staff in the video below! Keep in mind, the DELEGATES section of the website is a great resource for any questions you have, but feel free to be in touch if you need help with anything. Here are two links that will come in very handy: Delegates FAQ Page Download What To Bring Checklist
Look forward to seeing you in 14 days!
Rachel, on behalf of the entire conference staff
We cannot wait to meet you and to spend three OUTSTANDING days talking about community, ways to make a difference in the world, and engaging in thoughtful conversation with our peers!
The 3-Day MassSTAR Citizenship Conference is sponsored by the Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation (MYL Foundation). The MYL Foundation’s mission is to empower citizenship. Student leaders affect great change and MYL Foundation motivates students and provides them with the necessary tools to develop into strong leaders. The MassSTAR Citizenship Conference helps them to expand the talents that will serve them, their schools, and their communities well into the future.
Trivia Time:
The STAR in MassSTAR refers to STudents Accepting Responsibility. If you click here, you can read about the five pillars of the organization that we focus on for the weekend.
This Week's 411:
Below is some important information for you to read before the Conference.
This includes information about our service project for Saturday and our request for your donation of an item. Also, meet some more of our staff in the video below! Keep in mind, the DELEGATES section of the website is a great resource for any questions you have, but feel free to be in touch if you need help with anything. Here are two links that will come in very handy: Delegates FAQ Page Download What To Bring Checklist
Look forward to seeing you in 14 days!
Rachel, on behalf of the entire conference staff
2016 Community Service Activity:
Birthday Wishes
Sponsored by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Massachusetts
Each year, we partner with the members of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Massachusetts (GFWCMA), one of our platinum sponsors, for a community service event during the MassSTAR Citizenship Conference. Volunteering and giving back to the community is one of the major tenets of the Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation, so it’s important to us to build service into the weekend experience.
We are so excited to that for the third year in a row, we will be volunteering with Birthday Wishes, an organization based in Newton, MA. Birthday Wishes works to provide all the supplies needed to throw birthday parties for homeless children or youths living in shelters or transitional living facilities. Each group of delegates will be assembling at minimum one “birthday box,” which will contain all of the items needed for a birthday party.
Our sponsors at the GFWCMA have been hard at work collecting items to include in these boxes, but we are also asking each delegate to bring one item to include in the boxes. All of the items on the list, from cake mixes to decorations to paper plates and napkins, can be found at your local dollar store. We do not want this to create a financial hardship for any of our delegates, but hope you will be able to make a small contribution toward the spirit of the event. Birthday Wishes has provided us with a suggested list of items to include in our boxes; you can view the list here. Our senior facilitators will be reminding you of this when they speak with you prior to the conference, and we hope that you’ll help us to reach our goal!
This Week’s Action Items:
Still waiting on a few registrations:
If you have not done so already, please fax, mail or scan and email asap.
The form can be downloaded from our website and can be submitted via mail, fax 781-338-8375, or can be scanned and sent via email to alexander.weingart@MassSTAR.org
*If you submit electronically or by fax, please bring a hard copy of the form to the conference*
Connect with us:
Please feel free to be in touch if you have any questions!
rachel.klein@massstar.org
Birthday Wishes
Sponsored by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Massachusetts
Each year, we partner with the members of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Massachusetts (GFWCMA), one of our platinum sponsors, for a community service event during the MassSTAR Citizenship Conference. Volunteering and giving back to the community is one of the major tenets of the Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation, so it’s important to us to build service into the weekend experience.
We are so excited to that for the third year in a row, we will be volunteering with Birthday Wishes, an organization based in Newton, MA. Birthday Wishes works to provide all the supplies needed to throw birthday parties for homeless children or youths living in shelters or transitional living facilities. Each group of delegates will be assembling at minimum one “birthday box,” which will contain all of the items needed for a birthday party.
Our sponsors at the GFWCMA have been hard at work collecting items to include in these boxes, but we are also asking each delegate to bring one item to include in the boxes. All of the items on the list, from cake mixes to decorations to paper plates and napkins, can be found at your local dollar store. We do not want this to create a financial hardship for any of our delegates, but hope you will be able to make a small contribution toward the spirit of the event. Birthday Wishes has provided us with a suggested list of items to include in our boxes; you can view the list here. Our senior facilitators will be reminding you of this when they speak with you prior to the conference, and we hope that you’ll help us to reach our goal!
This Week’s Action Items:
Still waiting on a few registrations:
If you have not done so already, please fax, mail or scan and email asap.
The form can be downloaded from our website and can be submitted via mail, fax 781-338-8375, or can be scanned and sent via email to alexander.weingart@MassSTAR.org
*If you submit electronically or by fax, please bring a hard copy of the form to the conference*
Connect with us:
- Join The MassSTAR 2016 Delegates and Staff Facebook Group
- Follow on Twitter @MassYouthLead
- Make time to connect with your Senior Facilitator, if you have not heard from anyone by phone or email soon please let me know
- Did you miss the first two emails? click here to read them all
- Parents RSVP for Luncheon click here
- Download the Delegate Checklist
- Check out the items to choose from to bring for the Birthday Wishes service project
- If you emailed or faxed your registration please print out and bring the original with you on Friday
Please feel free to be in touch if you have any questions!
rachel.klein@massstar.org