Move It Mondays- Summer 2021

How might we encourage sportsmanship and lifelong movement for 5-12 year olds with physical and intellectual disabilities

Move It Mondays was a 6-week summer experience for youth including those with physical and intellectual disabilities. In partnership with Game Changers, the Everyone’s an Athlete team did a second implementation of their project in the summer with a walk/run/jog club for Game Changer’s athletes at Veterans Park.

Each week was a different theme for campers and athletes to dress up. The themes were: perfect pairs, famous athletes, animals, everyday superheroes, monochromatic, and olympics. Through peer one on one mentorship, buddy's formed deep connections with their guides and were able to create goals for the six weeks on how long and far they wanted to run by the end of their time together.

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Year(s): Fall 2020 - Summer 2021

Focus: Youth with physical and intellectual disabilities

Recipients: 5-12 year olds with physical and intellectual disabilities

Community partner: Game Changers Idaho

Number of recipients: 10

Number of One Stone members involved in planning: 8

Number of weeks of planning: 30

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 5

How many hours it took to implement: 8

Outside the Lines- Summer 2021

How might we build creative confidence in fifth and sixth graders through a fun summer experience?

Outside The Lines is a three day camp experience designed for fifth and sixth graders. It is  planned and implemented by a team of One Stone students who utilize the design thinking process to create the best experience they can for each student. This process provides a real-world learning opportunity for the older student planners, while ensuring that the camp meets the needs of younger student campers. 

This year students got to experience art both inside and outside One Stone HQ. Campers got the opportunity to go to Boise Art Museum to see all the different exhibits they had on display, as well as go to the park to create art using materials they could find out in nature. Back at One Stone, students learned about how to use different mediums such as creating collages from magazine cut outs, and painting using watercolors.

The final day of camp, participants hung their art all around the building in an art gallery type format to show their friends and family that afternoon. There was also a cookie decorating station that students used to make cookies showing their emotions.

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Year(s): Summer 2021

Focus: art and creative confidence

Recipients: 5th and 6th graders

Community partner: 

Number of recipients: 16

Number of One Stone members involved in planning: guides - 18

Number of weeks of planning: 7

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 10

How many hours it took to implement: 20

Venture Camp- Summer 2021

How might we explore and practice social entrepreneurship with 7th and 8th graders through a fun summer experience?

Venture camp is a three day camp for seventh and eighth graders on learning what entrepreneurship is and teaching new skills to grow as an entrepreneur. This year 8 campers and 5 guides worked together learning about entrepreneurship from guest speakers and working on their own entrepreneurial projects.

Campers gained skills such as laser cutting, what it means to run a business, and how to use the design thinking process. The main activity that campers worked on during their three days at camp was creating their own prototype of a small business, and on the last day they presented it to a group of ‘sharks’ including the co-owner of body basics.

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Year(s): summer 2021

Focus: entrepreneurship

Recipients: 7th and 8th graders

Community partner: 

Number of recipients: 8

Number of One Stone members involved in planning: 5

Number of weeks of planning: 5

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 10

How many hours it took to implement: 20

Tinker Camp- Summer 2021

How might we magnify third and fourth graders' passion for STEM through an interactive camp created by high school mentors?

During the summer of 2021, One Stone students led the fourth annual TINKER Camp, a One Stone STEM camp designed for third and fourth graders. During this free mentoring program, 17 eager learners were paired with 15 high school students for three full days of exploration, science activities, experiments, field trips, technology, engineering challenges, and mathematical application. 

Through camp, the third and fourth graders participated in several different activities such as building boats, creating a device to drop an egg in, and creating catapults out of popsicle sticks. There was also a design lab team that collaborated with TINKER to bring in live raptors from Birds of Prey to teach the campers about different birds, as well as a bird feeder building activity.

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Year(s): Summer 2021

Focus: STEM

Recipients: 3rd and 4th graders

Community partner: Birds of Prey

Number of recipients: 17

Number of One Stone members involved in planning: 10

Number of weeks of planning: 10

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 15

How many hours it took to implement: 20

Open Book Adventures- Summer 2021

How might we improve literacy skills in first and second graders?

Open Book Adventures (OBA) is One Stone’s longest-running Project Good program. First and second graders around the Treasure Valley come to One Stone to partner one-on-one with high school students, “Adventure Guides”, for three days of building connections and diving into activities that encourage a love of learning. Young buddies gain a fun and caring near-peer mentor while high school students expand their skills in leadership, problem-solving, communication, and empathy.

For three days in June, 21 first and second grade students and 20 high school students came to One Stone headquarters to practice reading and writing, work on their handwriting and storytelling skills, and engage in activities promoting social-emotional growth. 

The theme for this year's camp was Let the Wild Rumpus Begin, which was based on the book Where the Wild Things Are. Throughout the week campers and guides did activities such as writing acrostic poems, creating synonym rolls, and adding words to the new word wall during reading time. At the end of the week, campers celebrated all the new words they had learned over the past two days by holding a wild rumpus party.

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Year(s): Summer 2021

Focus: literacy and writing skills

Recipients: 1st and 2nd graders

Community partner: 

Number of recipients: 22

Number of One Stone members involved in planning: 5

Number of weeks of planning: 5

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 20

How many hours it took to implement: 18

Empow(HER)- Summer 2021

How might we empower young women to use their voice to create a better world for themselves and others?

In the summer of 2021, the Empow[HER] team came together to create a summer summit called Empow[HER] On: Climbing Your Mountain. After a year and a half of dealing with the hardships COVID caused for the Boise community, this group of high school students wanted to create a space that allowed for seventh and eighth grade girls to build connections as well as develop skills to help with overcoming obstacles. This was a two day summit that included a movie night and sleepover at One Stone HQ. 

On the first day, the team took the participants up into the foothills for dinner, a hike and an activity centered around practicing vulnerability and sharing a story of when you had to overcome an obstacle. After dinner and sharing space and time, the group went on a hike representing their overcoming obstacles by working together to climb to the top of the mountain. The night concluded with a sleepover at One Stone Headquarters. 

To maintain COVID protocols each girl brought their own sleeping gear and was separated with six feet of distance. The next morning, guides and participants walked over to the Idaho History Museum to tour the Trailblazing Women section. Afterward, everyone came back to One Stone HQ to participate in some more activities. One of them was decorating a tiny pot to put a plant in, and at the bottom of the pot putting a piece of paper with a struggle you are having in the bottom of the pot. Then putting soil and a flower over the top to represent that even though life is sometimes hard, it also helps us grow into something beautiful. The young students also created cards about inspirational women in their lives. It could be someone they knew or someone famous who they looked up to.

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Year(s): Summer 2021

Focus: Female empowerment

Recipients: 7th and 8th grade girls

Community partner: Idaho History Museum

Number of recipients: 20

Number of One Stone members involved in planning:  5-7

Number of weeks of planning: 10

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 20

How many hours it took to implement: 15

Empow(HER)- Spring 2021

How might we empower young women to use their voice to create a better world for themselves and others?

For the Spring of 2021, the Empow[HER] team created the Empow[HER] self retreat for girls in grades 6-9. The theme was all about writing your own HERstory and practicing self love. 

After doing some get to know you activities at One Stone, students went to the park with their high school buddies to listen to guest speaker, Tai Simpson, about how we can connect ourselves with nature and the earth. Girls participated in activities such as creating story circles, a dance party, and decorating tote bags. After eating lunch provided by Zero Roots Waste Market, participants and guides came back to One Stone HQ to hear from guest speaker, Shannon Mcguire, a One Stone Board Member. After listening to Shannon’s HERstory, the participants were given the chance to write their own HERstory answering the prompt what is your HERstory and how do you plan to continue it.

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Year(s): Spring 2021

Focus: Creating your own HERstory

Recipients: 6th-9th grade girls

Community partner: Speakers were Tai Simpson and Shannon Mcguire

Number of recipients: 30-40

Number of One Stone members involved in planning: 10

Number of weeks of planning: 10

How many hours it took to prepare for implementation: 10

How many hours it took to implement: 6

Participants shared the following about their experiences:

“Being at One Stone and with One Stone people inspire and empower me.”

“I feel like I understand more about compassion, life, and empathy and that makes me feel like I know more about myself.”

“I have heard other's experiences and it has made me a lot more confident about myself.”