Just like last year I am looking for Lodges and Chapters to adopt a student. If your student from last year returns, they will be assigned to your Lodge or Chapter.The commitment to the Lodge or Chapters
would be up to $50 for expenses along with a $100 stipend for participating which will be presented at a luncheon in the Spring. Should the student you sponsor be chosen to attend the International Youth Awareness Congress they will need $250 spending money.
This is on a first come basis, so as soon as your Lodge or Chapter can vote on this, please contact me!
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Thank you all for your support!
Linda O’Maley
MA/RI Moose Youth Awareness Coordinator
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Thank you to the Lodges and Chapters that sponsored a student in the Moose Youth Awareness Program 2023-24!!
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AUBURN MASS
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APRIL ADAMS
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After training in October, planning their KidTalks to help persuade younger children to make positive choices in life, five students from Greenfield presented Talks to 4 to 9 year olds in their community. They reached 180 younger children. Their Talks were completed by mid December which gave them a month to prepare a presentation to be judged by their peers.
This weekend their projects were judged. I wish they all could be winners. Their projects were very competitive with a lot of time and effort put into to them by all.
I am proud to say Auburn Mass, sponsored by Greenfield Lodge #997 placed first. Her topic was self-love.
April Adams, sponsored by the Waltham Lodge #1018, placed second. Her topic was setting healthy relationships.
Auburn and April will be traveling to St. Louis, Missouri, April 20 to 24, 2023.
Auburn has earned a $1,000 scholarship and April has earned a $500 scholarship from the MA/RI Association.
Brielle Widelo, sponsored by the North Reading Lodge #1511 has also earned a $500 scholarship from our Associate for reaching the most children. She spoke to four classrooms reaching a total of 68 students.
I look forward to seeing what the future brings for these students.
~Linda O'Maley
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BRIELLE WIDELO
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For more than 25 years, we have organized high school students into a highly effective speakers’ bureau with the goal of educating preschool and elementary school-aged children on a variety of topics, including drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, “stranger danger,” bullying and peer pressure, and healthy habits and nutrition.
Through Moose "Kids Talks" presentations, participants in the program have reached an audience more than 750,000 children throughout North America. Students also have a chance to compete for $30,000 in college scholarship money that is awarded annually through this program.
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AUBURN MASS
Auburn Mass, sponsored by Greenfield Lodge #997 placed first. Her topic was self-love.
Auburn Mass is a 9th grader at Greenfield High School. She is a member of the marching band, Class Representative for her the class of 2026 and is in the French Club. She represents Greenfield High School as the delegate on the Western Mass Student Council. In Auburn’s spare time she loves to crochet. She also plays volleyball and is looking forward to starting tennis in the fall.
Auburn was excited to participate in the Moose Youth Awareness program as she has grown up in the Moose Lodge. She was always so excited to see all of the projects come in when her dad, Isaac Mass, used to run the program. She chose the topic of self-love because she thinks that mental health is an important topic that can be taught in age appropriate ways at all levels. These lessons allowed 2nd graders to reflect on what they loved most about themselves and will have tangible reminders of their time together to be a constant reminder of all of their positive attributes.
Auburn and April will be traveling to St. Louis, Missouri, April 20 to 24, 2023.
Auburn has earned a $1,000 scholarship from the MA/RI Association.
APRIL ADAMS
April Rooney-Adams is the treasurer for the Class of 2026 at Greenfield High School. April plays flute in the marching band, is in the French Club along with being a Personal Care Aid. April also volunteers through the YMCA's leaders club.
April loved working with her 3rd graders this fall about setting healthy relationships. She demonstrated setting healthy relationships with your goals, with food, with other people and with yourself. When April isn't volunteering she enjoys performing in a local theater group and singing. She is looking forward to traveling to the Moose Youth Awareness International Congress in April.
April Adams, sponsored by the Waltham Lodge #1018, placed second. Her topic was setting healthy relationships. April has earned a $500 scholarship from the MA/RI Association.
We made it!! With Angela DeSanty Mass and Mary Conroy Dupont at the Westin Hotel in Boston for the National Conference on Student Activities. Talking Moose International Youth Awareness Program. Educators from across the nation!!
~ Dawn Maxwell- MA/RI State President
MIRICLE LEYRO
BRIELLE WIDELO
Brielle Widelo, sponsored by the North Reading Lodge #1511 has also earned a $500 scholarship from our Associate for reaching the most children. She spoke to four classrooms reaching a total of 68 students.
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TURNERS FALLS — Some of the highest-achieving pupils at Franklin County’s six public high schools and the vocational school gathered to receive recognition from the superintendents of their respective districts on Thursday as part of the annual Franklin County Area Superintendents’ Association awards dinner.
This year’s ceremony celebrated seven seniors: Brayden McCord of Turners Falls High School; Caroline White of Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange; Cooper Bullock of Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield; Emery King of Mohawk Trail Regional School in Buckland; Brielle Widelo of Greenfield High School; Kitana Rodriguez of Franklin County Technical School; and Sydney Scanlon of Frontier Regional School in South Deerfield.
“We should all hold great hope for our future, knowing that there are such brilliant, kind and skilled students moving on to contribute, to develop their exceptional skills and dedicate themselves to make our world a better place,” Gill-Montague Regional School District Superintendent Brian Beck told the crowd.
Greenfield High School
Brielle Widelo was honored for her well-roundedness. The Greenfield School Department’s Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Karin Patenaude explained Widelo is a “conscientious student, a dedicated athlete and a natural-born leader.”
Widelo, who ranks first academically in her class of 71 students, was the sole recipient of the University of Rochester’s George Eastman Young Leaders Award.
Not only is she a member of her school’s field hockey team, she is also Student Council president, National Honor Society vice president, Key Club editor, Class of 2023 vice president and has participated in the Moose Club Youth Awareness Program.
“What more can we ask from our students than to embrace all of the opportunities provided with determination and ambition, and selflessly give back to the school and community of which you are a part,” Patenaude said about Widelo.
