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October 2024

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AIM is hosting a Pumpkin Brunch Express event on October 18th for mentors! This event will be open house style, so stay as little or as long as you want between 9:30 and 12:30. We will have pumpkins and paint kits for you to take and use during your mentoring time. AIM staff will be available to chat with you if you have any questions or concerns related to AIM or your mentee. We also want to use this as an opportunity for you to meet our new Match Coordinator, Ellie! So many fun reasons to stop by, enjoy Starbucks coffee and food, grab a match activity, and say hello!!

Ellie Higgins Hired As New Match Coordinator

Ellie Higgins recently joined the AIM team to assist in supporting and pairing mentors and mentees. She is looking forward to becoming acquainted with our matches! Ellie will be the Match Coordinator and main contact for all of AIM's middle school school-based matches, as well as some of our community-based matches. You can contact Ellie at [email protected] or 319-340-3453.

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School-Based Match Activities

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Spider's Web

Give this spider's web project a try! Click here

for instructions.

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Paint Pumpkins

Come get a pumpkin and paint from us at the event above! You and your mentee can paint a pumpkin together!

Community-Based and Hybrid Match Activities

These are activity ideas for matches in the community-based or hybrid programs only. School-based matches are only allowed to meet at the mentee's school or an AIM event.
Wartburg STEM
Jack O Lantern Night

Wartburg STEM

Wartburg College is partnering with the Northeast Iowa Region Governor's STEM Advisory Council to host the Cedar Valley Family STEM Festival in The W on Oct. 29, 4-7 p.m. Experience fun science, technology, engineering, and math activities at this FREE hands-on event.

Jack O' Lantern Night

The Waverly Chamber invites all the little ghosts and goblins to join the fun and fill their bags with treats provided by participating downtown merchants during Waverly’s annual Jack-O-Lantern Night on Thursday, October 24, 2024. Click here for more info.

Adopting a Mentoring Mindset
Introduction to the Becoming a Better Mentor Series
Virtual Training for Mentors

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024 --4:30PM-6PM
Thursday, December 5, 2024 --4:30PM-6PM

"Iowa MENTOR will host a virtual training session on the mentoring mindset twice before the end of the year. This is a training for any individual that would like to be a mentor or is serving as a mentor in a mentoring program. A perfect "first step training" where we will explore some critical attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that serve as the foundation of being an effective mentor. Participants will receive a certificate of completion and should come prepared to learn and interact with others."

Mentors need to only attend one of the trainings. Register at the dated links above.

School Calendar

Here is the 2024-2025 Waverly-Shell Rock school calendar. Please use this to check for no school days, breaks, holidays, etc.

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