By Adi Salcinovic | Program Coordinator
BOSANA FOUNDATION
After School Program Report
October – December 2017
Number of volunteer instructors:19
Average number of students:65
Number of workshops held:4 times a week for five hours
Type of classes held:Intro to AutoCAD, Solidworks, Math, English, German, Bosnian, physics, chemistry, Agro & Eco math and extracarricular activities like a handicrafts, information tehnology.
Program Summary:
During this reporting period, the instructions were geared towards helping student prepare for the end of the school year exams while also providing some fun extracurricular activities to balance the stressful period. The attendance was higher than usual as expected due to exams so this posted a bit of a problem managing all students; however, the results were very good based on students grades.
Instructive lessons
During October, November and December we were holding instructive classes for the following subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, economic mathematics, accounting, the English and German language. There was a great interest from beneficiaries especially from middle school students that were planning on going to a good high school, so later on they could enroll in a good university. The biggest interest in mathematics, physics, chemistry, economic mathematics, accounting came from students in high school. During these Three months, I would point out that Sedina, attending Economics high school, during her third year has shown great persistence and dedication for learning and acquiring knowledge. Since October she has been having problems with economic mathematics, and accounting. We practiced with her four times a week and each lesson lasted 3 hours. After one month Sedina has shown great progress getting a B in economic mathematics. Working with Sedina, there was an indication for necessity for enlisting additional volunteers that were experts in accounting. In November, there were 65 students attending our instructive classes, of which 40 were middle school students, 20 high school students and 5 college students. A great success in our instructive classes and after school projects is also Edin, a third-year student in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, he regularly attends our classes in mathematics and has an instructor for drawing in AutoCAD and Solidworks. Edin is learning just like Sedina, but they are separating their free time after they are done learning their material, and help us with teaching the other students. We believe that that is very helpful and we are very proud of them, because you can see great progress after three months of instructive classes. After these three months, we saw just as before that the After-School program for our beneficiaries is much needed and this just simply gives them a stimulus in learning and advancing their education. In the attachment is an appraise from the accountings professor for Sedina’s success that she achieved after attending the after-school program.
Creative workshops, education and youth activism
During October, November and December we would hold a creative educational workshop for our beneficiaries. This type of education and fun within this framework for the After-School project was useful for the children and youth. Around 70 of them would participate in various workshops. Something new that we introduced in our educational program is robotics and programming where more girls where interested in participating. We borrowed equipment like mini robots and various parts for building and programming. We split them into 7 groups of 10. The most interest and will to learn were shown by the girls, which learned how to program small mBots and then test them. This is a great method with which we could intrigue the girls to be more involved in this sphere. We had two groups that were competing against each other, in one were the boys and the other group the girls, where the girls won by having the highest results in programming and testing the robots. IBesides robotics which was very popular, we also held workshops in decoupage, courses for English and German, guitar lessons and workshops about comprehension of yourself and your ability’s, where our goal was to motivate children to teach them how to care for themselves so they can succeed in life.
Fun, socializing and events for the holidays
We made the Program „After school „very rich and it involves children from elementary school all the way to collage. We did our best to intrigue and activate them. For teacher’s day on 05. October, we organized a small event and socializing with karaoke and some teachers from different elementary and high schools were talking about different topics with the children. For Independence Day, we organized a party and socializing throughout the day with sweets and cake for children that are residents in homes without parents. The children with our help made a commemorative event while reciting about BIH Independence Day, after that program we had a buffet with singing and karaoke. For new year’s we arranged a special event for the children and youth where we were giving out presents and singing and dancing in the auditorium we completed the children’s last December day in 2017. You could see their happiness, which brought some of our volunteers to tears. The children were very happy and were thankful from the bottoms of their hearts for the great event which they could dance to the music that they like that we arranged for them.
PLANS
Our plans for January 2018, are to prepare the students that are going to university with their upcoming exams, and create a creative and educational workshop for the children that are going to elementary school and high school, while they are on break. They have already asked us is there going to be any kind of creative workshop during the break.
Achievements in these months:
Plans for the future month:
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