Last month, 73 students received personalized more than 150 hours of personalized tutoring in EECM's ExtraOrdinary Tutoring program. One of the reasons we're able to provide academic help to so many kids in the community is an ongoing partnership EECM enjoys with the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.
Each semester, a cadre of Pharmacy students volunteer with our ET program, often tutoring multiple students and putting in many hours of work each week.
In addition to providing direct school-related support, the Pitt students also try to introduce their students to some principles of living a healthy lifestyle. Recently, a group of four students organized an educational event designed to address the issue of childhood obesity. They approached the problem from perspectives of nutrition and physical fitness.
The culmination of their project was a 4-hour "mini-Olympics" with various stations, including physical fitness games (ex. basketball, tossing balls), bowling, healthy snacks, and an interactive poster asking the kids what a healthy lifestyle meant to them.
Thanks to our Pitt Pharmacy volunteers for stretching beyond the classroom to provide fun, interactive learning!
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