[YellowBike] Yellowbikes & local Schools?

[jks04 at hampshire.edu]

Hey Ian,

Could you send me info on where this bike stuff is going down? That would be 
awesome. Thanks! Jasmine

Quoting itw02 at hampshire.edu:

> Hey Yellowbikers,
> 
> The Hilltown Bike Club in Haydenville (West of Noho) recently conntacted us
> 
> with the hope of connecting our two programs. The following explains their 
> project and how we could become involved with it. This could be really
> exciting 
> for anybody whose interested in bikes, youth, and community development.
> Email 
> Aaron or I and we'll get you hooked up with them.
> Tires on the town,
> Ian
> itw02 at hampshire.edu
> 
> 
> ---------------
> Hilltown Bike Club - Mission Statement: 
> HBS teaches students from Hilltown Cooperative Charter School to rebuild and
> 
> repair bikes from donated used bikes and bike parts.  These bikes will in
> turn 
> be donated back to families in the community who could otherwise not afford
> 
> bicycles.  HBS gives participants an opportunity to participate in a
> meaningful 
> community service project while developing the skills to service their own 
> bikes, and fosters both their independence and cooperative working skills.
>  HBS 
> helps promote the principles of a sustainable community through the reuse and
> 
> maintenance of bicycles.  It also provides a viable and practical 
> transportation option for Pioneer Valley residents.   
>   
> HBS Program Logistics: 
> Currently, the club meets on Fridays from 3-5 PM.  We typically have between
> 5-
> 10 students each club session.  Currently, we've limited the club to grades
> 5-
> 8.  At club sessions, students have the opportunity to work on their own
> bikes 
> or on bikes that will be donated to the community.  We ask that students
> spend 
> atleast half of their time working on bikes that will be donated to the 
> community.   
>   
> School Logistics: 
> Hilltown Cooperative Charter School is located in Haydenville, on Rt 9, 
> approximately 10 minutes west of Northampton (~25-30 minutes from Hampshire
> 
> College).  It is located in the former Brassworks Factory.  We have access to
> a 
> screened in pavillion to store bicycles and tools, and have permission to
> hold 
> club sessions in the school's "all-school" space.   
>   
> Hampshire Yellow Bike's potential role: 
> The two coordinators (Noah and Jacob) of HBC are leaving in mid-March.  We
> are 
> looking for volunteers to take our place by supervising afterschool work 
> sessions.  This is an opportunity to expand the Hampshire Yellow Bike
> program, 
> and to give Hampshire students solid experience teaching and with youth 
> development.  Anyone interested in helping with this program is strongly 
> encouraged to visit the school during one of the remaining work sessions,
> (Feb 
> 27th, March 5th, and March 12th).   
>   
>   
> 
> 
> Newspaper article on the Hilltown Bike Club:
> 
> 
> Youth recycle thoise old bikes 
> By NANCY H. GONTER 
> >From The Hampshire/Franklin County Republican  Monday, January 26, 2004 
>   
> HAYDENVILLE - Thirteen-year-old Liam N. Richardson rides a bicycle all the
> time 
> in good weather, but has never known how to fix it.  Now, Liam and 10 other
> 
> students at the Hilltown Cooperative Charter School are getting the chance to
> 
> learn how to fix their own bikes and at the same time helping to restore old
> 
> bicylces that will be given to needy children.  
>   
> "We're going to be building bikes for people who can't afford them.  I think
> 
> bikes are a fun thing, and it would be nice to give bikes to people who want
> 
> them and can't have them," said Liam, a Northampton resident and an eigth-
> grader at the school.  
>   
> Two members of the Hawley based Student Conservation Association, Jacob A. 
> DeMott and Noah D. Pollock, who teach environmental education at the charter
> 
> school, are working with pupils after school in the Hilltown Bike Club.
>  
> This gives students an opportunity to participate in a meaningful community
> 
> service project while developing the skills to service their own bikes, and
> 
> fosters both their independent and cooperative working skills," DeMott said.
>   
>   
> Pupils involved in the program said they love having the opportunity to learn
> 
> about bicycles.   
>   
> Kirin S. Bourgeois, 12, a sixth-grader from Goshen, said he has a few bikes
> at 
> home and they all need work.  Two were donated to the program.   
> 
> "I think I could have fun fixing up my bikes and maybe I could make a living
> 
> out of it and donate them to people who can't buy bikes," Kirin said.   
>   
> Harpo Marchand Jaeger, 12, a seventh-grader from Northampton, said he already
> 
> knew a little about fixing bikes because his dad taught him.   
>   
> "I'm finding I know a lot less about bikes that I thought I did and that this
> 
> is very fun to do.  I think it's really cool to be able to build your own 
> bike," he said.
> 
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