Student Fun Events


 

West Monroe Partners, LLC Golf Outing

August 27, 2011

On Saturday. August 27th, 2011, four of our Chicago Scholars headed to St. Andrew's Golf Course & Country Club to attend West Monroe Partners, LLC annual golf outing. Students volunteered from 11 A.M. UNTIL 8 P.M. welcoming and congradulating guests during their game of golf. A tremendous thank you to our scholars and to West Monroe Partners, LLC for raising $12,500 for our scholars!  


Peer Mentor Bowling Event

August 16, 2011 

On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at Diversey River Bowl, our 2016 scholars and their student mentors gathered for a few fun games of bowling, a few pieces of pizza topped with advice before heading off to their first day of college!  Thank you to everyone who could attend and have a scholar-iffic first semester!

Chicago Scholars Day of Service 2011:

The Rock-n-Roll Half Marathon

August 14, 2011

On a chilly sunday August morning, more than fifty Chicago Scholars and their family and friends convened at Grant Park to volunteer at Competitor.com's Annual Rock-n-Roll Half Marathon benefitting the Amercian Cancer Society. The large group of scholars were split into two groups and provided the key labor force checing in thousands of runners belongings before they made their way to the starting line with their respective runner's corral. Congratulations to 2015 Class Officer, Daniella Fernandez for seeking out the opportunity. Chicago Scholars would like to thank Julie Schaeffer, the Volunteer Coordinator for helping us with the technology for signing up volunteers for the day as well as the team of volunteer leaders at all gear check locations for keeping us running smoothly throughout the morning. We were kept quite busy throughout the day but, a few of our scholars managed to take a few pictures. Take a look below.

Battle of the Classes 2011 

August 11, 2011

On Wednesday, August 11th, 2011, Battle of the Classes took place in Grant Park. Students from classes 2011,2013,2014 and 2016 participated in Water Balloons, Three-legged Races, Running Races, Ultimate-Frizbee, Egg Races, Tug-of-War and Bags Tournament.  After a delicious lunch provided by Potbelly's Sandwich Works Inc., the winner of Battle of the Classes were announced. First place went to Class of 2016 and Second place went to 2014. Congratulations to everyone and a huge thank you to our staff and to all the students who came out to celebrate back to school!

Swing for Scholars at Naperville Country Club

August 8, 2011

On Monday, August 8, 2011, 12 of our students volunteered  at our annual Swing for Scholars Golf Outing hosted by Manny Sanchez. 80 registered golfers came out to enjoy a game of golf and to support our students. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and attended!

Tim's Summer Scholar Party July 31, 2011

On Saturday, July 31st, 2011, 20 of our students attended Tim's annual summer scholar party in his home in Riverwoods, Illinois.  Thank you to everyone who attended and a big thank you to Tim and his family for welcoming our scholars in your home for a beautiful summer event!

Chicago Scholars Day of Service 2011:

The Danny Did Foundation 2nd Annual Kickball Tournament

July 17, 2011

Thanks to the efforts of Anna Ward, 2014 Class Officer, the Chicago Scholars student body had the opportunity to volunteer with the Danny Did Foundation. Danny Did was founded to raise awareness about SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) and to bring the available preventative treatments to the mainstream. In honor of Danny, the foundation invites friends' and supporters' children out to Edgebrook Park to play Kickball, Danny's favorite sport. Scholars were kept quite busy registering tournament participants as they arrived, face painting, applying temporary tatoos, and handing out popcorn, and water to the many participants and their families throughout the day. At the end of thd day Mary Duffy, the COO of the Danny Did Foundation shared her comments, "It was so nice to meet you all at the Tournament...the Scholars were a pleasure to work with...we hope to work with the scholars again in the future."

Chicago Scholars Day of Service 2011:

Garfield Park Conservatory

The weather seemed to cooperate perfectly with the modest group of scholars who made it out to the Conservatory on Thursday July 7, 2011. 

This year, Thomas Constanza, a foreman at the Garfield Park Conservatory, had the group rake up the excess long grass along the side of the City Backyard area along Lake Street. Even though there were only 13 students, they made up for their small gourp size with their work ethic, clearing about one full city block full of long seeded grass in two and a half hours! Quite impressive work, Scholars! Mattie Wilson, Volunteer Program Coordinator, and Thomas Constanza agreed our third invitation to the Garfield Park Conservatory to be a huge success! Even more exciting is that Thomas even suggested that we bring even more students next year! I don't think that will be a problem for us at all, Thomas. We will see you next year!

Chicago Cubs Game sponsored by the Chicago Urban League

On Monday August 16th, 2011 Chicago Scholars students and their mentors who had near perfect attendence at our summer workshops were rewarded with an evening of Chicago Cubs Baseball! Here are a few pictures of the students and their mentors enjoying themselves at the game. Thanks so much to our friends at the Chicago Urban League for making this night possible for our students and mentors


 

Battle of the Classes 2010 @ Montrose Beach

Over 70 Chicago Scholars, including World Sport Chicago Scholars, have gathered at a beautiful Montrose Beach for an afternoon picknick and games. Scholars represented their respective classes in games of:

  • Tug of War
  • Donut Eating Contest
  • Three-legged Race
  • Balancing the Marshmallow Race
  • Water Balloon Tossing
The event was a blast and scholars enjoyed spending time together outside.

 

Chicago Scholars Community Service Project 2010 @ Garfield Park Conservatory

Chicago Scholars had a great turnout of volunteers yesterday at the Garfield Park Conservatory this past Wednesday. It's so nice to see that scholars care about their environment and are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirtry. In a 90 degree weather scholars planted 6 trees and enjoyed a beautiful Garfield Park Conservatory.

For the second year Thomas Costanza, a foreman at the conservatory, provided a fun and relaxed supervisory role for the scholars and spoke about tree planting practices and our role in the environment. Mattie Wilson, Volunteer Program Coordinator, helped to arrange this event and was a saviour in helping scholars avoid dehydration in the 90 degree weather by providing cold water and snacks. Thank YOU Mattie and Thomas! We hope to see you again next year!

 

Battle of the Classes 2009

Chicago Scholars enjoyed an afternoon at the Grant Park and played games, had a good time and interacted with Chicago Scholars from Classes of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 

This event was organized by the scholars, for the scholars and students said they can't wait to participate in more informal events such as this. 

Chicago Scholars Community Service Project 2009 @ Garfield Park Conservatory

This past weekend the Chicago Scholars Class Officers (see who they are) organized the first Civic Engagement Project. It took place at the Garfield Park Conservatory on June 6th, 2009. Despite the forecasted thunderstorms and showers, 12 scholars, 1 mentor and Karen G. Foley, President of the Chicago Scholars Foundation, attended and rolled their sleeves up to work. Though Thomas Costanza, a foreman at the conservatory, was surprised when 14 volunteers showed up to do the work allocated for 30, the Scholars quickly proved that no task was too big. Ambition prevailed and the Chicago Scholars helped spread mulch, soil, and cleaned the grounds for tree planting.

The Class Officers will organize more events like this in the future, so stay tuned for new announcements. Our goal is to build a strong community of Chicago Scholars & Alumni to create a positive impact on Chicago.

The Class Officers are extending a warm THANK YOU to all the volunteers that showed up and put a tremendous effort and dedication to finish our task before it started raining in the afternoon. Also BIG THANKS goes out to Thomas Costanza at the Garfield for arranging everything, DeRell Bonner for reaching out to Garfield Park and everybody who showed up on this early Saturday morning. You are all great! (See more photos on our Facebook page by clicking here)