Making Progress

These past few weeks have seen alot of new developments for the ITA team. We have now been in Mount Lebanon Elementary School for a few weeks reading to the students. My reading buddy is a third grader named Ethan, or "Cool Ethan" as I like to call him. We are well into a gripping tale of a little girl trying to make it back home with the help of some new friends: a scarecrow, a tinman, and a lion. I never realized how long of a book the movie would make.


Our second big venture is our partnership with the New York Road Runners' Mighty Milers Program. It is a great program aimed at elementary and middle school students around the country. The students will run laps around their school, gym, or athletic fields during recess or after school. The kids will recieve prizes for reaching certain benchmarks and their totals will go toward a national tally. New York Road Runners have set a goal of 2,500,000 miles for the 2010-2011 school year. We have targeted some great schools through out the Upper Valley that we hope to work with. This week we will make initial contact with the PE teachers and principal's at out target schools. So wish us luck as we try to convince them that this would be a great program to bring to their schools.

If you want to learn more about The Mighty Milers program click here www.mightymilers.org

If you want to see the best part of the Wizard of Oz click here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSiyaqnZYs