Bay Youth Works:
BAY YOUTH WORKS is a student driven division of Blue Rock Workshop.
Mission Statement:
We aim to serve the community, gain entrepreneurial skills and valuable work experience, create jobs, fund higher educational goals of youth team, and invest in our local community. All income and profits from Bay Youth Works will be used to grow this division with portion of the resources used for services for disadvantaged clients.
Team: Area youth
Services Offered:
Products:
Listed below are two suggested Pilot Programs For Youth. Please contact us if you or your school are interested in having an artist or entrepreneur teach or customize one of the program projects listed below.
Note: Technology will be integrated as much as possible. Team or small group projects will be encouraged when feasible. Desired learning outcome can be provided upon request. Results of the projects may be documented and available for the general public and stakeholders as well.
Youth Artist-In-Residence Pilot Program:
With instruction and inspiration from the artist-in-residence, the students will create works of art, which encourage creative art expression relating to their community and the unique local history. Distinguished contemporary artists will be studied.
Hands-On Art Projects:
1. Project: An art project incorporating ethnic design elements or concepts.
Art forms including, but not limited to, a defined ethnic tradition will be researched and developed. Ultimate art materials used may be beading, paint, paper mache', craft paper, mat board, pencil, linoleum prints, recycled materials, natural found objects such as birch bark, rocks, plants etc.
2. Project: Painted contemporary, culturally based, large mural.
Painted on craft paper, with a theme reflecting student life growing up in their community, the subject matter could involve depicting their daily activities and/or view of the world in which they are growing up in. This large mural could be a group activity.
3. Project: Exchange of art and culture with an outside group.
This collaborative project involves another group of students where an exchange of art such as linoleum prints, digital photographs, or poetry. Communication with students from other cultures or geographic areas will be established. For example, those students could be Inuit or West Coast Native, Chinese, from Lac Courte Oreilles, or from Detroit. Students will help research, identify and make contact with the other group of students.
4. Project: Seasonal or theme based art.
Subject matter relating to local natural resources or local events. Images from the local chamber of commerce or businesses will be researched and incorporated in art work. Art materials used could be paint, paper mache, craft paper, mat board, linoleum prints, recycled materials, natural found objects such as birch bark, rocks, plants etc.
5. Project: Drawing from objects in front of you.
Students will learn the basics of drawing by careful observation of simple objects placed in front of them. They will begin to understand perspective, light, volume and space. By learning basic drawing skills, they will gain confidence in expressing themselves visually. Charcoal and pencil on paper will be the materials used.
Hands-On Entrepreneurship Projects:
1. Project: Business Planning for Youth Businesses.
Initial activities will be writing a mission statement and determining a compelling name of their business. Students may break up into small groups to develop their business idea that will be presented to their class. Their classmates will vote on which business idea they think could be most profitable, and may want to explore as a class. A youth driven business could be potentially established from this project. This project could also lead to the establishment of a Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator Program to help grow other youth based businesses.
2. Project: Research, identify, contact and collaborate with potential large corporate sponsors. This project could be for a mutually beneficial, high profile, youth entrepreneurship activity that the selected outside company would likely receive favorable publicity from. For example, the class could design and conduct a market survey for a company that sells products or services to students. This could involve product testing with student focus groups as well.
3. Project: Develop and implement a successful marketing campaign.
This could involve starting and maintaining an art or entrepreneurship Youth Division using Email Marketing with Constant Contact and Social Media such as Facebook or You Tube. Perhaps, assisting with a service learning activity, like a local food shelf effort could be promoted by the class. Or, there could be a school event or activity that could be promoted by the class.
4. Project: Fun, entrepreneurial competition between groups.
Teams of 3 to 5 students could be formed with a friendly competition with prizes for various activities such as: most items sold, most number of “likes” on Facebook, most hits on a webpage, most views on a You Tube, most opens on an email newsletter, most volunteers signed up for a local non-profit organization. An entrepreneurship element with an emphasis on research, marketing and product development could also be taught if desired.
5. Project: Selling items at community or school events. For example, if there are other students creating and selling products or services the class could help promote and market the products with posters, flyers, social media or an email marketing campaign. The school farm produce or items from tech ed could be sold. A portion of the proceeds could be used to fund future projects.
Sponsorship: Blue Rock Workshop (BRW), LLC. may be willing to sponsor a Youth Division webpage on it’s website and an email marketing subscription via Constant Contact for the above projects.
Mission Statement:
We aim to serve the community, gain entrepreneurial skills and valuable work experience, create jobs, fund higher educational goals of youth team, and invest in our local community. All income and profits from Bay Youth Works will be used to grow this division with portion of the resources used for services for disadvantaged clients.
Team: Area youth
Services Offered:
- Manual Labor including: Stacking Wood, Splitting Wood, Cutting Wood
- Lawn Care: lawn mowing, spring cleanup - raking, flower bed preparation, debris removal, doggie cleanup, weed wacking, fall cleanup
- Gardening: garden tilling, garden planting, master gardener consultation, watering
- Snow Removal: Residential and smaller commercial properties, hand shovel, snow blow, salt
- Pet Care: Dogs, Cats, Fish
- Babysitting: Nanny, Birthday Party Event Planning
- Christian Band including piano, drums, vocals, flute
- Cleaning: Basements, Garages, Barns, Kitchens, Floors, Boats
- Painting: Garages, Sheds
- Organizing: Basements, garages, closets, kitchens and more
- Gutter Cleaning
- Marketing: Facebook, Email Marketing
- Basic Small Business or Personal Bookkeeping: Quicken, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable
- Photography - event
- Video production and editing
Products:
- Photographs: Unframed, Framed, Custom, with Text
- Hand Made Felted Mittens, Custom Knitted Hats
- Picture Framing
- Other Home Décor Crafts
Listed below are two suggested Pilot Programs For Youth. Please contact us if you or your school are interested in having an artist or entrepreneur teach or customize one of the program projects listed below.
Note: Technology will be integrated as much as possible. Team or small group projects will be encouraged when feasible. Desired learning outcome can be provided upon request. Results of the projects may be documented and available for the general public and stakeholders as well.
Youth Artist-In-Residence Pilot Program:
With instruction and inspiration from the artist-in-residence, the students will create works of art, which encourage creative art expression relating to their community and the unique local history. Distinguished contemporary artists will be studied.
Hands-On Art Projects:
1. Project: An art project incorporating ethnic design elements or concepts.
Art forms including, but not limited to, a defined ethnic tradition will be researched and developed. Ultimate art materials used may be beading, paint, paper mache', craft paper, mat board, pencil, linoleum prints, recycled materials, natural found objects such as birch bark, rocks, plants etc.
2. Project: Painted contemporary, culturally based, large mural.
Painted on craft paper, with a theme reflecting student life growing up in their community, the subject matter could involve depicting their daily activities and/or view of the world in which they are growing up in. This large mural could be a group activity.
3. Project: Exchange of art and culture with an outside group.
This collaborative project involves another group of students where an exchange of art such as linoleum prints, digital photographs, or poetry. Communication with students from other cultures or geographic areas will be established. For example, those students could be Inuit or West Coast Native, Chinese, from Lac Courte Oreilles, or from Detroit. Students will help research, identify and make contact with the other group of students.
4. Project: Seasonal or theme based art.
Subject matter relating to local natural resources or local events. Images from the local chamber of commerce or businesses will be researched and incorporated in art work. Art materials used could be paint, paper mache, craft paper, mat board, linoleum prints, recycled materials, natural found objects such as birch bark, rocks, plants etc.
5. Project: Drawing from objects in front of you.
Students will learn the basics of drawing by careful observation of simple objects placed in front of them. They will begin to understand perspective, light, volume and space. By learning basic drawing skills, they will gain confidence in expressing themselves visually. Charcoal and pencil on paper will be the materials used.
Hands-On Entrepreneurship Projects:
1. Project: Business Planning for Youth Businesses.
Initial activities will be writing a mission statement and determining a compelling name of their business. Students may break up into small groups to develop their business idea that will be presented to their class. Their classmates will vote on which business idea they think could be most profitable, and may want to explore as a class. A youth driven business could be potentially established from this project. This project could also lead to the establishment of a Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator Program to help grow other youth based businesses.
2. Project: Research, identify, contact and collaborate with potential large corporate sponsors. This project could be for a mutually beneficial, high profile, youth entrepreneurship activity that the selected outside company would likely receive favorable publicity from. For example, the class could design and conduct a market survey for a company that sells products or services to students. This could involve product testing with student focus groups as well.
3. Project: Develop and implement a successful marketing campaign.
This could involve starting and maintaining an art or entrepreneurship Youth Division using Email Marketing with Constant Contact and Social Media such as Facebook or You Tube. Perhaps, assisting with a service learning activity, like a local food shelf effort could be promoted by the class. Or, there could be a school event or activity that could be promoted by the class.
4. Project: Fun, entrepreneurial competition between groups.
Teams of 3 to 5 students could be formed with a friendly competition with prizes for various activities such as: most items sold, most number of “likes” on Facebook, most hits on a webpage, most views on a You Tube, most opens on an email newsletter, most volunteers signed up for a local non-profit organization. An entrepreneurship element with an emphasis on research, marketing and product development could also be taught if desired.
5. Project: Selling items at community or school events. For example, if there are other students creating and selling products or services the class could help promote and market the products with posters, flyers, social media or an email marketing campaign. The school farm produce or items from tech ed could be sold. A portion of the proceeds could be used to fund future projects.
Sponsorship: Blue Rock Workshop (BRW), LLC. may be willing to sponsor a Youth Division webpage on it’s website and an email marketing subscription via Constant Contact for the above projects.