Memorial Middle School

Care 4 Children (C4C)
The team of Care 4 Children remembers being in daycare and not having supplies to do activities. The ladies of this Venture took it upon themselves to raise funds to buy supplies for a local Fitchburg daycare center to enrich the lives and growing minds of their younger peers.

MAAC (Memorial Arts and Ceramics) Misfits
The M.A.A.C. Misfits want to make ceramics a more accessible part of their middle school art curriculum. This Venture team discovered that there is not sufficient funding for their art teacher to purchase clay for any ceramic art classes during the day and as a result, they must pay to participate in an after school program. Unfortunately, most students are unaware that this is available or they cannot join because of the cost, among other inconveniences. The M.A.A.C. Misfits would like to change this—allowing Memorial students to use clay as part of the art curriculum as well as helping improve their art program at the middle school, overall. Ultimately, this Venture team plans to sell various art that they construct themselves, including painted chairs, ceramics, and jewelry to be able to purchase wheels for their art classes.

All About Animals
Dedicated to raising awareness about the problems of bullying in schools, and how their passion for the arts can help the bullied and bullies alike, the team launched an awareness campaign to Camp SUN participants, ranging in age from grade one through eight. Through informative presentations and personal stories about the effects of bullying, including a skit about how students can stop bullying at their schools, they were able to make a major impact on the impressionable minds of the younger campers. Not only did they help their fellow campers understand what bullying is, these students have become ambassadors for the Fitchburg school district as a whole, helping pave the way to put an end to the problems of bullying once and for all.

ESP- Eco-School Project
This team of 21st Century After School student's goal of the ESP program is to bring recycling into the Memorial Middle School so they can become an eco-friendly community, with the ultimate goal of students carrying this habit into their homes.

PATH- Peer Academic Tutoring Help
This team of 21st Century After School students ventured to create a peer tutoring program that helps children with both homework and schoolwork and serves as a mentoring program.