AmeriCorps Week

Hi Hazel! This is Angela serving as the Youth Employment Specialist in Walla Walla! I noticed you posted this like 2 wks ago but.... just in case you still could use some ideas... here's a link I've found very inspirational. :) Also, if you've found some recently as well, I'd love to accumulate some more ideas! :) www.teambuildingguide.com/icebreakers/

Thanks for the great site, Angela! We've done tons of teambuilding energizers. We did one where there was a "grid" (composed of pieces of paper) on the ground. Our Program Mgr had a set route that he wanted us to take. If we took a wrong step (that didn't correspond with his set route) at any point, then we had to get off the grid and the next ... Read Moreperson had to try. To twist things up after a
certain point, people were told not to look, and others were told not to listen. Everyone had to attempt to "crack the code" and get through the grid once it was cracked. It was a great teambuilding exercise and everyone worked together. Everyone helped each other out, especially helped those who had been told not to look, or listen. Hope this makes sense!

For kids or adults??? I used sponge bob and mini marshmellow target practice exercise.../or the "name game" might be better....take all the name tags of students and let them radomly pick them lable side down & hold them to their foreheads and try and guess whose name they have without telling the other person which on they have. They have three ... Read Moretries, with one letter hint from the person accross from them. then they have to retire the name tag face down on the table, if they guess correctly, one face down tag can be laid face up and theirs can be placed face up, it gets harder as the tags are laid face down and there are less points of reference for illimination. They have to work together to figure it out without saying 'what they see' . Only guessing aloud what they think there tag on their own forehead says to the person directly across from them.
I am interested in knowing your results and what mental gymnasitics where used by the students. Did they sum it up by process of illimination or realized whose name they had by getting information from the hint the person mirroring for them gave.
NOTE: this game works better if the name tags are in plastic holders. Not 'sticky back' name tags :)

AmeriCorps is a wonderful oppurtunity

Hi, Sally! Do you want to stay in the Seattle area? I have a new half-time (900 hours for the year) AmeriCorps position here in St. Joseph, Michigan serving to expand my youth volunteer recruitment program...

Hi Sally! Have you found a place?! There's a position open at the Columbia Basin WorkSource for a Youth Employment Specialist. Though it's several months later since you've posted this I thought a suggestion still might be of use JUST in case. :) To get more information on the position contact Robert Brader, Coordinator of WA AmeriCorps, #360-486-5905. If you've already made other plans I hope these are working for you! :)

Hey there, any chance of these videos going up on YouTube or Vimeo? Thanks! Would be nice to embed into Facebook.

HEY CARLA, THIS IS THE GROUP I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT......

I voted. You should too! Great videos and photos, well done everyone!

What a wonderful service!