Unfortunately I have to start this blog post with some bummer news. The summer program we have been designing for Roosevelt High School students has fallen through. To our dismay, we simply couldn't recruit enough participants to make the program a viable option. However, hope for a productive and educational summer is by no means lost for Roosevelt students or for our RHS intern team. Right now we are looking into a number of options for redirecting our focus for the summer. Lucky for us and for Roosevelt students, there are a number of programs already in place to help tutor academic priority students in the summer months. Some of the programs we are looking to help out with now that our program is no more include Step-up, a program for high school freshman, Summer Seniors, a program that helps seniors prepare and apply to college, and a program that helps tutor recent African immigrant children in the area. In addition to these options, we are also working on establishing a strong curriculum and recruiting strategy for an RHS writing center summer program that can be implemented next summer. While I must admit I was originally a little stressed about the abrupt halt of our program, I am still hopeful and excited to not only work with students through these other programs we will be helping out with, but also to play a role in planning a stronger writing center program that can be successfully implemented next summer. Even though things are not going as planned, I am actually starting to think that this will be an even more valuable learning experience than the original program may have been, allowing me to work with a wider array of kids and helping me take a leadership role in helping to design a sustainable summer program for the future. After all, the greatest experiences often don't go according to plan.