Bayview Hunters Point YMCA
Bowl For Youth 2015 Fundraiser Event
with support from the 49ers Foundation
at Sea Bowl
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| This event joined recent and former graduates along with our new students! |
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| It was great watching everyone relax and have a good time! |
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| The young men had the opportunity to meet and talk with celebrity ball players like former 49ers Eason Ramson |
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| They had a great time posing in front of Championship Trophies |
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| They enjoyed competing against one another! |
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| The students approached Greg Suhr, San Francisco Police Chief and asked for his autograph! |
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| The young men had the opportunity to meet and talk with celebrity ball players! |
P&P Summer Program Begins
Our focus is teaching the young men how to run a Food Concession stand. They learn sanitation, kitchen safety, knife skills, life skills and much more.
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| Chef Berlin getting their snacks ready |
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| We make it a point to always have fresh and tasty food! |
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| The Bayview Y is a soda free zone. It's amazing how fast the students adapt! |
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| Of course their is paper work to be done on the first day! |
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| Ice Breakers are always fun to watch!! |
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| This is my favorite part, watching them interact with one another to find that common thing! |
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| This was such a great activity.... without identifying themselves they had to complete unfinished sentence stems. For example one student wrote: The best thing about being an adolescent, learning growing and experiencing new things |
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| The students enjoyed reading the responses too! |
Pizza Anyone?
They are catering lunch for our Y-Football Camp at Silver Terrace Park for 5-14 year old participants. They are preparing handmade pizzas for 30 kids.
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| Chef Berlin getting the guys organized and ready to go! |
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| The students were so excited about putting on their aprons for the first time! |
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| They eagerly await instructions from Chef Berlin |
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| The students work well as a team |
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| They had to stay focus to crank out more than 10 pizza's |
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| They made cheese, pepperoni and sausage & pepperoni pizzas!! |
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This is what one of the pizza's looked liked. The best part was that they guys got to eat some too!
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| Pizza's are now ready for pick-up and delivery!! |
Knife Skills
P&P catered the food for the B-Ball Jam Tournament closing community event for the Bayview Beacon. It was two basketball teams that played a three-game tournament, and the winner of the tournament won a special trophy from the YMCA. After the game, all the guests were invited to eat in the conference room food prepared and served by Primed & Prepped for about 60 people. They prepared steak and chicken tacos, nachos complete with chili, cheese, lettuce and sour cream. Fresh fruit platters were also made.
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| Chef is giving instructions and demonstrations on how to cut fruit for the platters! |
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| He makes sure they are all paying attention and asking lots of questions |
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| Look how focused these guys are....so fascinating to watch them! |
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| Chef takes out time to watch and guide each student |
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| Great job, young man! |
San Francisco Achievers College Orientation and Conversation with Jason Reynolds.
The Bayview Y had the opportunity to host the San Francisco Achievers as they oriented a new group of college bound students. Their mission is to reduce the achievement gap of African American young men in San Francisco high schools through support, mentoring, and college scholarships. Primed & Prepped catered the lunch that consisted of assorted turkey and vegetable wraps, fruit and vegetable platters for 35 young men.
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| Gregory Collins, Executive Director of San Francisco Achievers attentively listening to one of his students read |
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| I had the opportunity to introduce the SF Achievers to the P&P Program recruiting for the Fall program |
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| P&P students catered the lunch for this event |
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| It was a pleasure knowing that they enjoyed the food! |
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| The highlight of the Orientation was Jason Reynolds, author of critically acclaimed When I Was the Greatest, for which he was the recipient of the Coreeta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent and Boy in the Black Suit. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com |
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| Thanks Greg and SF Achievers! I will look forward to having some of you join P&P! |
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| Chef Berlin is looking forward to training the next group of young men! |
Informational sessions and cooking
demonstration on:
August
18, 20, 25, & 27, 2015
4:00-5:30pm
You must attend an Informational
Session to Join!
Primed & Prepped
Program begins September 15, 2015
Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday
4:00-6:30pm
For
more information about Primed & Prepped contact Kelly Armstrong at
the Bayview YMCA (415) 822-7728 or email karmstrong@ymcasf.org.
