2008 YOUTH Travel Scholarship Recipients

Twenty-five youth and staff from Bikes Not Bombs will bike to our hostel on Martha's Vineyard (with a little help from the ferry for the water crossing) for an environmentally friendly adventure this summer. Through bike trips to the beach, stargazing, and enrichment activities, this trip will broaden friendships and mentorship relationships, enhance global awareness, and promote sustainable relationships with the natural world.

Ten youth and two staff leaders from the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club's Keystone Club will venture out to Martha's Vineyard this summer with our Biking Treasure Trek package. Youth will have the opportunity to focus on team building as well as some of the key areas of their leadership club through this journey: social recreation, free enterprise, unity, and character building.

Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO) is an advocacy and support group providing programs to support low income youth and their families in Castle Square and the surrounding community. Ten Youth Council peer leaders and three staff members will travel to our hostel on Nantucket this summer for a two-night leadership development retreat. At the end of the retreat, peer leaders will produce a public service announcement to share their experience with the larger community.

Graduating 8th and 12th graders from the UMASS Boston Urban Scholars Program will spend two nights at our Mid-Cape hostel in Eastham as they reflect on the process of moving forward to the next stage of their lives. Through our Biking Treasure Trek package, the Urban Scholars will explore the area and go on a GPS scavenger hunt. Congratulations graduates!

A total of 29 people, four chaperones and 25 youth will be traveling to Martha's Vineyard with MYTOWN Inc this summer. This unique organization trains youth from diverse Boston neighborhoods to develop and lead walking tours of Boston. Group research projects and presentations around the history of Native tribes and early settlers of the Vineyard are a key part of the Youth Guides' training and help guides understand the history of Massachusetts with a focus on the Native American culture tied to the area. This trip to the Vineyard is an exciting experiential education and teambuilding opportunity for Youth Guides as they embark upon their explorations with MYTOWN.

We are thrilled to support these five groups this summer as they travel to our hostels on the Cape and Islands. Safe journeys!