Plymouth Christian Youth Center American Lutheran Church

Youth development programs: in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, 27 k-5th grade scholars enrolled in bright futures saturdays program. Scholars attended biweekly for academic enrichment, stem, social-emotional learning (sel), and both project-based and individual learning experiences. The program was supported by volunteers from the u of m arboretum and community partners like the fiber arts guild, which introduced intergenerational elders into the offerings. This collaboration enriched the learning environment, fostering a diverse and holistic educational experience.we partnered with the children's defense fund to host our inaugural bright futures summer freedom school. This six-week program provides enrichment through a research-based and multicultural program model that supports scholars and their families through five essential components. We focus on high-quality academic and character building enrichment, parent and family involvement, civic engagement and social action, intergenerational servant leadership development, nutrition, health, and mental health. In our first summer, we had 34 scholars grades 1-5 participate in various activities such as reading, planting a summer garden, and learning self-expression through hip-hop and writing.

Cultural arts programs: over the last fiscal year, 142 different organizations representing pcyc programming, partners and community members utilized the capri for a total of 218 days. The broad spectrum of arts events included 26 music offering 14 theater or arts events, 57 films screened, 6 dance companies performed. Highlights for the year include the mobile jazz project on the plaza, a two-week residency by ten thousand things, involvement in both mspiff and tcbff film festivals, and a developing partnership with danceco to bring their youth programming to north minneapolis. In addition, our spaces were used for shooting 2 music video, 5 gallery artists were displayed, 46 community or celebratory event and 25 meetings or conferences were hosted, and our doors were opened to the community for 11 civic offerings, including use as a polling station and met council blue line public conversations site.22 talented middle school-aged youth presented an inspiring performance of into the woods, jr. The finale to our 5-week summer camp capri program where youth learned to sing, dance act, paint and sculpt, was performing before two audiences totaling more than 400. Throughout the 2023-2024 school year, 108 youth participated in our monthly third saturday camp capri arts program.the capri glee adult community choir program began with a group of 15 singers in 2015. The capri produces two 6-week capri glee! Sessions each year. Each session in 2023-2024 had more than 140 registrations and 80 participants singing at the weekly rehearsals. Both the fall and spring capri glee! Concerts were directed by j.d. Steele, with fred steele on keys and had more than 100 participants performing on stage. Our best buy teen tech center at the capri (cbbttc) enrolled 160 students and provided access to state-of-the-art technology under the guidance of 3 pcyc staff, expert contractors, and mentors. Students explored their personal tech interests, strengthened stem competencies, and developed career-building skills while creating individual and collaborative projects in areas including audio recording and production, coding and computer programming, photography and videography, 3d printing, adobe creative suite, robotics and circuitry, and graphic design. In addition to the ongoing curriculum, the tech center hosted drop-in, touch-and-explore events to peak students' interest in what the tech center offers. Including participant voice in programmatic decisions, over the past year, the tech center has also engaged in drone immersion workshops, violence prevention roundtables, graphic design, music production, social justice conversations, international day of the girl, and community-wide stem engagement and training events with northside stem.