Positive Experiences with Next Generation 

Quotes from Mentors

• When asked if they would be involved in Project Next Generation next year, two students said they would love to come and "be the teachers". This demonstrated their comfort level with the library and their newfound self-confidence. We will invite them to come back next year and help out with our NG group.
  
• We overhear our students bragging about what they do at the library and saying "it's cool". Students have promoted the project and encouraged others to get involved.
  
• The students work together and hang out with each other when they aren't at NG. They've really learned to get along!
  
• One of our students is really creative and motivated. While the other students were complaining about the project they were working on, she broke away from the group and finished the project on her own.
  
• One student was very timid and not involved with the group at the beginning. By the end of the semester, she had mastered making T-shirts, loved the AlphaSmarts and was begging to be allowed to return next year.
  
• One of the participants in the second session had fallen behind in his reading level. At our final celebration, his parents told me how improved his grades were during the last quarter -not only in reading, but in math as well. It seems that all the reading he did on the Internet paid off. His parents were thrilled and want to enroll him in any future young adult programs we have at the library.