Do you have a men­tor? Men­tors come in all forms. Teach­ers, friends or per­haps some­one else in your life has inspired you. All men­tors are spe­cial and push you to suc­ceed and do your best. We want to honor these men­tors in our next art show in the Cen­ter for Expe­ri­en­tial Learn­ing and Diversity’s third art instal­la­tion this spring. Pipeline, con­sider enter­ing an art piece to honor your men­tor today!

MENTORS: Cel­e­brat­ing the men­tors that have made a dif­fer­ence in your life
Third Stu­dent Art Exhi­bi­tion at the Cen­ter for Expe­ri­en­tial Learn­ing & Diversity

We are seek­ing sub­mis­sions from stu­dents who have been a part of EXPD pro­grams and would like to shine a spot­light on a men­tor who has made a dif­fer­ence in their lives. Entries could be in any medium, includ­ing pho­tographs or draw­ings, com­bined with a writ­ten descrip­tion of your men­tor­ing experience.

Please com­plete the fol­low­ing form and sub­mit it and a photo of the piece you would like to sub­mit to expdart@uw.edu.

Appli­ca­tions due by: Wednes­day, May 29
Open­ing of the show will be: Wednes­day, June 5

Thank you,

EXPD Art Team
expdart@uw.edu

We are cel­e­brat­ing the Pipeline Project’s 15th birth­day! Here is a video that was cre­ated for Spring Cel­e­bra­tion, fea­tur­ing Sol­maz Moha­jder, a Pipeline Project alum (2001–2004), who shared her per­sonal sto­ries from her expe­ri­ences at the Uni­ver­sity of Washington.

Check out this video, cre­ated and pro­duced by UWTV for the UW 360 mag­a­zine show, fea­tur­ing ASB! This video was also fea­tured on the Under­grad­u­ate Aca­d­e­mic Affairs web­site. Check out the full post here.

Here is a let­ter we received from Donna, who is one of our part­ners at Sand Point elementary:

I am writ­ing with an ele­men­tary school math prob­lem for you:

What have 58 vol­un­teers (Pipeline, Pipeline Project, and Amer­ica Reads) meant to Sand Point Ele­men­tary stu­dents and teachers?

TREMENDOUS (and invalu­able) SUPPORT!

Con­sider a min­i­mum 2 hour com­mit­ment (most of you have vol­un­teered MUCH more.…) from each of you for 8 weeks — by my cal­cu­la­tion, that is nearly 1,000 work hours donated to Sand Point from your kind and com­mu­nity focused ranks.

How many days is that? almost 42.…which is 6 solid weeks of work for the Sand Point squirrels.

Our staff has ben­e­fit­ted from your enthu­si­asm, energy, and com­mit­ment to serve the stu­dents in our hard-working lit­tle school, and the nearly 300 Sand Point squir­rels have LOVED the extra atten­tion and sup­port you have been able to provide.

Thank you.

Best of luck to each of you as you con­tinue to pur­sue your aca­d­e­mic and career goals, and know that big fans at Sand Point Ele­men­tary are sup­port­ing your endeav­ors in spirit and think­ing fondly of you.

Some food for thought: an excerpt from a com­men­tary pub­lished in the NY Times, writ­ten by Sean F. Rear­don, a pro­fes­sor of edu­ca­tion and soci­ol­ogy at Stan­ford University.

“Mean­while, not only are the chil­dren of the rich doing bet­ter in school than even the chil­dren of the mid­dle class, but the chang­ing econ­omy means that school suc­cess is increas­ingly nec­es­sary to future eco­nomic suc­cess, a wor­ri­some mutual rein­force­ment of trends that is mak­ing our soci­ety more socially and eco­nom­i­cally immobile.

We need to start talk­ing about this. Strangely, the rapid growth in the rich-poor edu­ca­tional gap pro­vides a ray of hope: if the rela­tion­ship between fam­ily income and edu­ca­tional suc­cess can change this rapidly, then it is not an immutable, inevitable pat­tern. What changed once can change again. Pol­icy choices mat­ter more than we have recently been taught to think.”

Read the full arti­cle here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/

Pipeline Project was fea­tured in The Talk­ing Raven, a Quileute Newslet­ter, for stu­dents’ ser­vice in the Quileute Tribal School class­rooms! Spe­cial thanks to Mariah, Laura, Amy, and Shruti, for their work in La Push!

Here’s what the arti­cle read:

Through the Uni­ver­sity of Washington’s (UW) Pipeline Project, the school offers an Alter­na­tive Spring Break (ASB) to their stu­dents. As part of the project, UW under­grad­u­ates are sent to rural and tribal com­mu­ni­ties in Wash­ing­ton State to teach envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence or lit­er­acy arts. Each year, sev­eral UW Pipeline stu­dents stay in La Push dur­ing their own spring break to facil­i­tate envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence lessons in Quileute Tribal School class­rooms. This year’s group vis­ited the Quileute Tribe from March 24th through 29th.
The UW stu­dents who par­tic­i­pated in the 2013 Pipeline Project were: Mariah, Laura, Amy, and Shruti. It was Mariah’s sec­ond time teach­ing at La Push; Laura has done Alter­na­tive Spring Break three times, hav­ing pre­vi­ously taught at Brewster,WA; and for Amy and Shruti, La Push was their first Alter­na­tive Spring Break expe­ri­ence.
Although their inclass instruc­tion lasts only one week, it takes the Pipeline stu­dents an entire quar­ter to pre­pare their cur­ricu­lum. This year’s theme was Pacific North­west, and the sub­jects they taught were: vol­ca­noes, ocean zones, worms, and water sheds. As a first time Pipeline Project stu­dent, Shruti said the most chal­leng­ing part was not know­ing what to expect, and try­ing to fig­ure out what the kids would like. Amy shared, “I was ner­vous to teach. We started off with 8th graders, and I wor­ried about what they would enjoy.” Mariah men­tioned the dif­fi­culty of plan­ning the cur­ricu­lum in Seat­tle, when they are so far removed from the reser­va­tion, and Laura added, “We def­i­nitely had to adjust to the dif­fer­ent grade lev­els.” To wrap up the week, the Pipeline stu­dents hosted Jeop­ardy games with all their classes, which focused on the mate­r­ial they had taught that week. They also handed out “Young Sci­en­tist” cer­tifi­cates to rec­og­nize the Tribal School stu­dents and their eager­ness to par­tic­i­pate in the week’s lessons.
To help pay for the UW under­grads’ lodg­ing at the Ocean­side Resort, Tribal School Parae­d­u­ca­tor Keith Penn donated a full-size pad­dle, which he carved and painted. QTS Sec­re­tary Stephanie Doeb­bler orga­nized a silent auc­tion, “Bat­tle for the Pad­dle,” that lasted one week and raised $540.00. The Pipeline stu­dents expressed their grat­i­tude to the com­mu­nity for this fundraiser.
Laura shared, “It’s been a really fun week… every­one is kind and will­ing to talk to us and answer all our ques­tions.” Dur­ing the week, the four under­grads par­tic­i­pated in the community’s weekly Drum Cir­cle; they enjoyed get­ting to know every­one, and the expe­ri­ence of Quileute cul­ture greatly con­tributed to their trip. Amy said she will cher­ish the friend­ships they built with the tribal school chil­dren. “It’ll be hard to leave,” she stated.

Check out the full newslet­ter here: May Newslet­ter

Spring break is com­ing to a close and spring quar­ter is just around the cor­ner! Here are a few pho­tos from ASB this past week — check back soon for sto­ries and more updates! Spe­cial thanks to all of the ASB teams — you are appreciated!

“Teach­ers affect eter­nity; no one can tell where their influ­ence stops.“
–Henry Brooks Adams–