Google Day 1

Hello musicians! Welcome to EFM (Educating the Future Musicians). For our Google Project, Sammy and I (Jessica) decided to reach out to underprivileged children in Portland through the SUN community school program and teach the students about music theory. Sammy and I will also be teaching them how to play the clarinet and the flute, respectively. We hope to see bright futures for these children and many young musicians!

                         -Jessica Lee

Day 1: The Birth of Our Program!

Greetings! 

My name is Samantha Wong and my classmate Jessica Lee and I are planning on educating students through the SUN program of Portland, Oregon. Schools Uniting Neighborhoods program offers low-cost, educationally enriching after-school and before-school classes; day camps on many no-school days; community gatherings and social support coordination for struggling students and families. So what we hope to do is start up Clarinet and Flute lessons once a week, after school for absolutely free. This will create the opportunity a lot of the kids wouldn't have gotten before to experience working with, and let alone just being exposed in general, to music. I personally volunteer with the Buckman SUN program and volunteer twice a week after school helping kids with their homework (how we came across the SUN organization.) Since Buckman elementary school has already started their programs for the year and have their schedule already created, we have to see if the other SUN schools who have not yet begun their school year programs would be interested in what we have to offer. There is also the concern of how many students we can accommodate and if we need to think of a rotation system or rent more instruments... Crossing my fingers that they get back with us ASAP and all goes as planned! Jessica and I are both extremely excited for this Google Project! 

-Samantha