We turn 5 years old in September. Thank you all for following us on our journey of doing what no one else does. Empowering middle schoolers to launch ideas for the common good is what we stand for, and we can’t wait to do it for another 5 years…and many more!
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You can help us receive $5000!
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If you’d like to help us continue empowering, mentoring, and collaborating with middle schoolers, please consider giving a gift to our 5th Birthday Campaign. Every donation you give will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $5000, from the compassionately generous folks at SoL Harris/Day Architecture and the DeHoff Family Foundation. So, if you give today, your gift multiplies!
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Help us reach our goal of $5000!
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Speaking of birthdays … You’re invited!
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Join us this Saturday in downtown Canton at Market Square for TomTod Ideas’ 5th Birthday Bash! We're partnering with Downtown Canton Flea and will have a dunk tank, DJ, photo booth, four square, a make & take for the kiddos, and more! Besides all of that, downtown is hopping this Saturday with the Downtown Canton Flea (vendors, food trucks, art), Canton Farmers' Market, 6th Street Yoga, Little C Music Fest, Despicable Me 3 showing at the Canton Palace Theatre and more! So bring the family and have some fun...see you there!
Saturday, September 16, 10:30am-1:30pm
Market Square, 301 Market Ave N, Downtown Canton
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What If You Could, our student project and mentoring program, is in full swing.
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The CitySmart app team, led by students Gwyn and Aaron, is deep in development and plan to launch their city exploratory mobile app this November! We can’t wait to finally get all of Canton’s best kept secrets and locales in our pocket.
Rowyn, Riley, and Reese (pictured above) were inspired from experiences at Camp What If and learning about the international refugee crisis. Now they’re working to aid refugees in the US with a mobile app! Called Refugee Connect, their mobile app will serve as a one-stop-shop that provides resources and information to refugees, displaying how the refugee process works in the US and providing places to go if they need help.
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If you need an example that shows how middle schoolers can learn from transformative experiences at summer camp – and then have the compassionate determination to help others – this is it!
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New Blog Post: Five Reasons We Love Middle Schoolers
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Read our latest blog on five (of many more!) qualities we love about middle schoolers.
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It can be difficult – if not downright impossible – to fully sum up the middle school brain. But that’s one of the reasons we love middle schoolers: Their inquisitiveness, intrepid curiosity, and desire to know more (even if at first they act like they don’t care) is something that drives their middle school gray matter…
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Watch our 5th Birthday video!
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We’ve been empowering middle school students to launch absurd ideas that enhance the common good for five years now.
It’s been a momentous half decade.
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