Students and mentors celebrate year of ‘iMentoring’ in Brooklyn
High school students and their mentors celebrated a year of successful “iMentoring” on Saturday with games, lunch from Panera Bread, and fun activities like tug-of-war and group dancing at a picnic in Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn.
“This is the culminating event at the end of a very long year where iMentor mentors and mentees are able to interact outside of their typical classroom settings,” Danielle Smith, managing director of communications for iMentor, told the Brooklyn Eagle.
This is the fifteenth year of the innovative program. Smith said that iMentor mentors and their student partners communicate by email weekly, and meet in person once a month.