I think everyone is dying to know how we survived in blazing 85 degree heat and how the “city-slickers” fared with manual labor farming. You could say I’m normally the ‘eat food but don’t know where it comes from’ type of person but that day everything changed because I was ready to get down and dirty.
We have some sweet opportunities to come hang out with tSB this summer – hiking trips, service projects, BBQing! Sign up by clicking the links and we’ll follow up with the complete details. We can’t wait to see you!
It doesn’t sound particularly fun to lug rocks up a muddy trail while the trees drip on you: it sounds kind of awful, actually. But it was good. It was backbreaking, slippery, muddy, slightly terrifying, and absolutely satisfying.
Some people ask me why I do community service so much. I just tell them the same answer every time.
You are a tSB hero. Together, we raised $11,610.20 for our 2014 Summer Programs! Thank you.
#winterishere
tSB had a fun-filled, action-packed weekend. Half of tSB celebrated kick off, where Mentors and our newly selected Prophets met and got to know each other.
Other members of tSB, namely our 12 remaining volunteer Snowboard Instructors spent the weekend at Stevens Pass learning from Coaches and getting trained on AASI Level 1 curriculum. We are now all trained and ready for our first day on the Mountain… in 34 days!
tSB is pumped for the start of our 19th Winter Season together!!!!
Last weekend we partnered with Stevens Pass Mountain Resort ski school to provide half of our Snowboard Instructor volunteers with teaching training. Despite being freezing cold, our Instructors came away with better tools to coach our youth this year: shared terminology, a learning progression, new games to teach skills, basic safety lessons and ways to give feedback. Plus we all became stronger riders.
We’ve got another training at Stevens coming up for the other half of our 2014 Snowboard Instructors in January and we’re looking forward to another rad weekend on the mountain!
the Service Board 2013: Why & How from the Service Board on Vimeo.
HEY! Are you a high school student? Live in Seattle? Need community service? Want to learn to snowboard and meet awesome people? You qualify to be a tSB prophet!
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE NOV. 15th
What to know before you apply:
Yesterday, United Way of King County hosted its annual Day of Caring Event and the Service Board was lucky enough to have their project selected. Yesterday, we hosted 23 volunteers from Microsoft’s User Experience – Bing Division. Their mission: help tSB reorganize our equipment and apparel from our basement to gear up for our snowboarding season.
For those of you who have seen our basement, you know this was quite the undertaking…but nothing that this group couldn’t handle. For four hours, we moved, sorted, compiled and played with our gear.
A big shout out to our handy volunteers who moved furniture, built new organizing systems, folded clothes
and especially to those that weren’t afraid to get a little dirty!
We honestly couldn’t have done any of this without you. We want to extend a huge thank-you to everyone that came out to support #tSB to help us get organized for our winter program during the #dayofcaring.
GET EXCITED!
#winteriscoming
