PAST&E Volunteer Appreciation Week 2012
April 15th-21st, 2012 was volunteer appreciation week! To celebrate, we honored our volunteers all week long, saying thanks for all that they do working with the PAST&E Scholar Athletes!
PAST&E Earth Day 2012
Earth day is an incredibly meaningful day for Portland After-School Tennis & Education.PAST&E Spring eNewsletter 2012
See the latest news from PAST&E and learn about ways to support our organization!
PAST&E Kale Chip Recipe!
A big THANKS to our volunteer Chris from University of Portland who made kale chips from the kale that grew in our garden over the winter! It was a delicious and healthy snack!
Here's the Recipe!
Ingredients:
-kale, any kind
-olive oil
-nutritional yeast
-salt
-pepper
-garlic powder
-cayenne pepper
-any other desired seasonings
PAST&E Fitness Breakthrough!
PAST&E's fitness program is keeping fitness fun and engaging for all of our scholar athletes! One challenge we've faced is upper body strengthening; pushups are really hard! But we found that building arm strength is an important aspect of Breakdancing! So we incorporated some breakdancing training exercises into our daily fitness!
National Student Athlete Competition, Current PAST&E Standings!
The National Student Athlete Competition is an important element of PAST&E. As a National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) organization, we're part of a network of programs that serve tennis and tutoring to student athletes across the US. We're delighted to see the latest NSAC rankings and to see our students excelling! The majority of their points are based on academic grades from school, with a 1600 being the highest point value possible per quarter. As of March 16, 2012 we have students in the top twenty in 4 categories: Boys and Girls Middle School, and Boys and Girls 10 and Under.
PAST&E Academy visits Oregon Episcopal School
This weekend the PAST&E Academy team headed to Oregon Episcopal School and their SPARC Tennis Center for a "mixed" doubles hit with the OES students. A big thanks to the OES students for organizing such a cool event!
USTA Community Tennis Development Workshop-PAST&E Executive Director Reports
By Coach Danice, Executive Director PAST&E
I just returned for the United States Tennis Association - Community Tennis Development Workshop which was held in New Orleans this year. I have been fortunate to attend this conference every year since I have been the Executive Director of Portland After-School Tennis & Education, Inc. So many of you only think of "tennis" when you think of the USTA, but I have found that for USTA Serves and NJTL (National Junior Tennis & Learning) tennis is the vehicle to engage at risk children in learning. Yes..."EDUCATION"...whether it is supporting programs that offer tutoring, life skills, nutrition, fitness...I wish all of you could have been there to hear the incredible work that is being done through NJTL Chapters across the country. I am so proud to be part of this network of dedicated people...and each year our gatherings have become more and more a "reunion of friends".
Volunteer Spotlight: Coach Debbie
Coach Debbie volunteers as a Coach and Tutor with our PAST&E Tennis Academy for High School students. She taught high school math at Aloha High School in the late 70's and then jumped ship to software engineering and retired from IBM in 2005. Her husband claims she's busier now than when she worked, which she says "is probably true but I only work on what I want to."
Congratulations to Coach Meghana and the PAST&E Science Program!
Thanks to your votes the PAST&E Science program has received a $5,000 Grant to be used for supplies and program activities! In the end Coach Meghana's project finished in the Top 20 of the Pepsi Refresh Grant voting polls ensuring the grant for PAST&E!
Thanks to our dedicated voters who voted all through the month of November!
See the project page here: Science for Kids