Carver kids to participate in the UN's Global People's Summit

Carver kids are excited to partner again with the United Nations to help shape the global conversation and impact around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN General Assembly.

This year, the Global People’s Summit is the first-ever 100% immersive and online summit that brings together thousands of global leaders and stakeholders from around the world to discuss solutions to global issues during the United Nations General Assembly.

Please help Carver spread the word to inspire more people here at home and around the world to join these critical conversations that shape the global community’s future.

Disrupt the status quo and engage on social media- Follow this UN initiative on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! Invite your network to this important Facebook event. Join the conversations and share your thoughts using #GlobalPeople, #GlobalGoals & #UNGA.

Help shape the narrative by joining the UN’s weekly Twitter chats - Join and/or co-host a weekly twitter chat in the lead up to 22 September. Each week for one hour the UN will talk about #SDGs and global engagement. To join, follow @ThePeopleSummit and engage using #GlobalPeople.

Carver believes that change IS possible-- only if we work together to create it!

The Global People’s Summit is organized by the The Humanity Lab Foundation in collaboration with the United Nations Office of Partnerships. The inaugural summit was held In 2017 during the United Nations General Assembly and had a digital reach of 84 million in 160+ countries. Inaugural presenting Summit partners included United Nations Foundation, and +SocialGood (powered by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Case Foundation, Caterpillar, Cisco, Enactus, Mashable, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Foundation), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, SDG Action Campaign and EarthX.

Natarsha Garcia brings her Star Maker Tour to Carver, October 12-14!

For over 18 years, Craig & Natarsha Garcia have been offering AGI Entertainment, a full service entertainment company, to help launch many successful careers. They affirm that you don’t have to be the most talented person to be a superstar; you just have to possess a work ethic that says, “no one will outwork me”! Stars are not born. They are made and created through hard work, discipline, focus and integrity. AGI’s roster includes clients who have gone on to success in film, television, print, Broadway, music and other mainstream media.

Natarsha is bringing her Star Media Tour to the Carver Community Center at 7 Academy Street, Norwalk, October 12-14, 2018! It begins Friday evening with a parent workshop, workshops are conducted all day for kids on Saturday, and on Sunday there is a showcase for family and friends.

To register, please call 678-324-7218 or call Carver at 203-838-4305.

Wilton Family YMCA names Dr. Susan G. Weinberger a "Distinguished Citizen"

YMCA CEO Robert McDowell, left, joins this year’s Distinguished Citizens Dr. Susan Weinberger of Norwalk and Dick Dubow of Wilton. — Contributed photo

See the entire article here in the Wilton Bulletin. 

Former Wilton Selectman Dick Dubow and Dr. Susan G. Weinberger of Norwalk have been named recipients of this year’s Distinguished Citizen Awards by the Riverbrook Regional YMCA. They will be honored at the YMCA Community Celebration on Sunday, Sept. 23, at Millstone Farm. 

A tradition of the Y when it was the Wilton Family YMCA, the Distinguished Citizen Award has been given to more than 83 individuals, businesses and organizations since the Community Celebration began in 1986. It honors outstanding volunteers who have served their communities on a long-term basis and made a positive difference that benefits the Y’s expanded range of Norwalk, Redding and Wilton and its residents.

Dr. Susan G. Weinberger’s (aka “Dr. Mentor”) moved to Norwalk with her husband, Dr. Norman and their two children 47 years ago. Her pioneering efforts in school-based mentoring began in the early 1980s when she developed the Norwalk Mentoring Program for the Norwalk Public Schools — the first school-based mentoring program in the country.

Since then, she has been at the forefront of mentoring’s evolutionary growth — as an educator and an inspirational cheerleader. The guiding principle she established for this program is unchanged: matching students with positive adult role models has a profound impact on the lives of those students. Her work has been published widely and the program she designed has been replicated in the United States, Bermuda and Canada and internationally, impacting the lives of thousands of young people.         (See the balance of the article here). 

Susan is a longtime Carver volunteer and now chairs Carver's board committee on marketing. 

Congratulations, Susan!

Amazing Girls Science 2018 is coming to Carver on Saturday, October 27, 2018

Date/Time

Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM

Location

George Washington Carver Community Center, 7 Academy Street, Norwalk, CT 06850 Directions

Register for This Event HERE

Girls in 4-8th grade are invited to join RHoK Jr and Amazing Girls Science at a special one day hackathon at where they will be working with computer science mentors to create technology for social good by helping local charities. Students will work in groups to brainstorm, design and code prototype smartphone apps using MIT's APP Inventor.

Android devices will be provided for building and testing apps, but you are welcome to bring your own. Participants may also bring their own laptops to work on.

The mission of Random Hacks of Kindness Junior, Inc. (RHoKJr) is to empower students to use technology to positively impact the challenges facing local nonprofits in their communities.  We do this by hosting one-day hackathons around the state where students  (4th-8th grade) are paired with computer science mentors and nonprofit representatives to develop prototype smartphone apps for local charities.  

Using an MIT developed coding tool (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/), students will learn the basics of app design, as well as the ideation and brainstorming process required to build a successful prototype mobile application.  This program requires NO prior coding knowledge and is intended as a code-to-learn tool!.  All students regardless of their computing background are welcome.  At RHoKJr events students participate in eight hours of highly engaged collaboration.

Side By Side Charter School opens its new William O. Murphy Upper School!

Carver partners with Side By Side Charter School to bring its students after school programming. The new school year begins at Side By Side on August 29, 2018, and we are excited for all that awaits our students there. 

The start of the 2018-19 school year also marks the official opening of the new William O. Murphy Upper School at Side by Side! This will be an exciting year for all of us as we prepare to make use of a brand new, state-of-the-art Upper School facility.  

This new building will be the primary location for all of the content area courses for all grade 6-8 students, the students in Carver's after school program.  Also, in addition to housing the middle schoolers, all Side by Side students in grades Kindergarten through 8th will now be participating in Art class in the new Art/Multi-purpose classroom in this new facility.  The school's Special Education department, Student Services offices and Collaborative Learning Center will also be located in this new building.  

This new building is the grand result of mighty effort and generosity on the part of many advocates, not least William Murphy and his family. St. Joseph's Parish is of course at the center of this new beginning. The CT Office of School Construction Grants, Mayor Harry Rilling, Stein/Troost Architecture, AV Tuchy Builders, and especially CT State Senator Bob Duff worked in concert to make this new building possible. 

Congratulations, Side By Side Charter School!

Carver Day, 9.20.18, 3-6PM!

Support the Darien Road Race on 9/16/18!

September 16th is the 39th annual Darien Road Race for the benefit of the Community Fund of Darien, a longtime Carver donor! Please considering participating in this fun family event.

Everyone is welcome! The Darien Road Race is The Community Fund’s largest fundraiser, and they would love your support – not to mention a lot of fun in a beautiful setting.

Please see the Darien Road Race details here!

This fun event begins at Pear Tree Point Beach in Darien at 9AM for the "fun run" and at 9:30AM for the 5 mile run. 

Thanks everyone who supports this important charity and their most important annual event!

Natarsha Garcia brings her Star Maker Tour to Carver, September 7-9!

Final day of summer 2018 at Carver and Columbus!

See images of the final day at Columbus Magnet School here at Facebook.

See images of the final day of summer 2018 at the Carver Community Center here at Facebook. 

Thank you everyone for a summer for the memory books!

Images of Parent Night at the Carver Community Center Summer Camp!

See all the images at Facebook here!

During each summer, our campers learn and play and discover new fields of interest inspired by field trips near and far. We take the learning very seriously, though for the kids it feels like play.

One other objective is for each age group to prepare for Parent Night! They learn skits and dances and other performances to delight their families. Here are a few images at Facebook of the great time everyone enjoyed yesterday evening at Parent Night at the Carver Community Center!