Cougar Community - Summer Style

Welcome to #CougarCommunity Summer Style! We miss seeing everyone on campus, especially this summer. Collegiate has developed this page to provide students and parents an opportunity to stay in touch with your fellow Cougars. Below, you will see book selections for young and old, as well as suggestions for family time both in Richmond and across the state of Virginia. Lower and Middle School students can access their recommended summer lessons and then jump on over to the Cougar Club for activities hosted by Collegiate faculty and staff. Cook, create, move and have fun doing all the activities in Collegiate’s Cougar Club. Best of all, we want to hear from you. Send us your Cougarific pictures and we’ll post them on this page so your fellow Cougars can see what you are up to this summer.

SUMMER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 2020

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  • Local RVA Community Opportunities

    RVA Strong: This site “centralizes support for our neighbors who need it and amplifies those who are willing to offer it.”

    Support a cause by clicking the links below to view specific ways to donate or volunteer.

    HandsOn Greater Richmond: This site identifies “projects or opportunities for which [HandsOn Greater Richmond’s] partners have requested help, or that can take advantage of your time and talents from home. As always please practice tips for healthy volunteering.”
     
    Volunteer with The Underground Kitchen Community First Project to assist in feeding community members impacted by COVID-19 one healthy meal at a time. Volunteers are needed to help with meal packaging and meal deliveries.  (RVA HUB: Underground Kitchen's New Food Relief Nonprofit Surpasses 10K Meals Distributed)
     
    Where: Roslyn, 8727 River Rd, Richmond, VA 23229
     
    When:
    • 2-hour slots for packaging Chef-prepared meals each day, both in the morning and afternoon. 
    • 2-hour delivery window opportunities on Wednesdays and Saturdays (delivery opportunities will be for students that are accompanied by a parent)
    • To view the schedule and sign-up to volunteer, please click here.
    • Questions? Contact info Michelle Lewis ('89 and Collegiate parent) at 804-874-1858 and/or michelle@popup-revolution.com 


    Befriend Movement
    Friendship Circle of Virginia
    Friendship Circle of Virginia has a virtual volunteer opportunity for anyone interested in working with their core program, Friends@home, which pairs two teenagers with a child with a disability for 1 hour each week. Through Zoom, you will interact with a child between the age of 5 to 18 years old by talking, dancing, and sometimes even playing video games. Friendship Circle will provide a Virtual Friends@home guide to help you learn about online activities as you interact with your new friends.
    If interested, please contact: Dana Crow Zedd, Assistant Director, 804-617-7658 (cell)


    Virtual Babysitting:
    Reach out to a neighbor or family member with young children and offer to entertain them virtually. Suggestions on linked document.

  • Cards and Letter Writing Opportunities

  • Other Virtual Volunteering Opportunities

    (in alphabetical order)

    Be My Eyes - See the world together: Helping the Visually Impaired. From their website: “Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers and company representatives for visual assistance through a live video call.” Check out their website to learn more.

    BookNook - Be a reading guide to a younger student.

    Bookshare: Offers thousands of books to people with reading disabilities. As an online volunteer you can either scan books to be added to the collection or edit books that have been scanned.

    Carnamah Historical Society Virtual l Volunteering Initiative: Uses online volunteers to help with transcription and indexing projects to make historical records more discoverable and searchable.

    Catch A Fire: This is a website dedicated to online or virtual volunteer opportunities. They can match you to a virtual service opportunity based on your skills.

    Distributed Proofreaders: These online volunteers turn public domain books into online books, mostly for Project Gutenberg. Many volunteers work on a book at the same time and proofread each other’s work.

    Happy Birthday, Now Vote!: Encourage students of voting age to register to vote.

    The Human Data Exchange: Key data needed by humanitarian workers addressing critical needs during a crisis, such as a natural or man-made disaster, as well as data needed by other development workers and researchers, is often trapped in PDF documents. Volunteers extract this data into a database so that it can be easily found, helping anyone to visualize trend lines across regions or countries and compare this data to other indicators.

    LibriVox Forum: A nonprofit that coordinates online volunteers to record audio versions of public domain books.

    Nabuur: Online volunteering platform that links volunteers with local communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America so they can learn about each other, share ideas, and find solutions to local issues.

    National Park Service Virtual Volunteers: The National Park Service is looking for virtual volunteers to test out their website and newly created resources. This page is being updated regularly.

    Old Weather: From their website: “Help scientists transcribe Arctic and worldwide weather observations recorded in ship's logs since the mid-19th century.” Visit their website to learn more.

    Paws for Life: Create thank you notes and letters to be sent to animal welfare supporters.

    Pets Together: Bring your pet to a virtual call and interact with residents in a nursing home.

    Smithsonian Digital Volunteer Program: Engages the public in making its selections more accessible. Digital volunteers transcribe historic documents and collection records to facilitate research and preserve these valuable assets for future generations.

    StoryCorps – Stories from people of all backgrounds and beliefs: Being home for an extended period of time offers the opportunity to communicate more with your parents, caregivers and extended family through technology. Taking the time to interview a family member for the StoryCorps project is a great service project during this time. Check out the website to learn more.

    Tarjimly On-demand Translation Service for Displaced People: From their website: “The Tarjimly mobile app allows the world’s 3 billion multilingual speakers to remotely volunteer their language skills as translators and interpreters for the 65 million displaced people. Today, it is the most accessible translator service in the world.
    When a refugee, asylum seeker, or humanitarian worker requests a translator for a particular language, Tarjimly’s machine learning matching algorithm selects the best volunteer available in our community of 8,000+ people. This person is then connected in a live chat with the person in need, where they can send text, documents, and start a phone or video call.”

    TechSoup: Has a series of discussion groups where nonprofits ask questions about technology. You can log into the community at any time and try to help nonprofits and volunteers with questions about software, databases and more. TechSoup also needs volunteers to transcribe its most popular archived webinars.

    TED Translators: TED Translators are a global community of volunteers who subtitle TED Talks and enable the inspiring ideas in them to crisscross languages and borders.

    Translators without Borders: Recruits volunteers who want to translate texts into different languages for NGOs and nonprofits.

    Virtual Storybook Library (example): Create a virtual library for friends and family members with young children

    Vocalid: Help to bring personalized voices to people with speech impediments or who have lost their voice! VocaliD is aimed at designing personalized synthetic voices so that people with severe speech impairments can use a voice that fits their body and personality. Share your voice and help drive innovation in voice technology.

    Zooniverse: The world's largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers. With our wide-ranging and ever-expanding suite of projects, covering many disciplines and topics across the sciences and humanities, there's a place for anyone and everyone to explore, learn and have fun in the Zooniverse. To volunteer with Zooniverse, just go to the Projects page, choose the one you like the look of, and get started.

Good Reads

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  • From Lower School Librarians

    Chapter Books:
    • The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
    • The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
    • Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
    • How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle
    • The New Kid by Jerry Craft
    • The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
    • One-Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko
    • Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
    • Aru Shah series by Roshani Chokshi
    • Friday Barnes series by R.A. Spratt

    Picture Books:
    • The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
    • Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
    • Sulwe by Nyong'o Lupita
    • Lift by Minh Lê
    • Unstoppable by Adam Rex
    • The Great Indoors by Julie Falatko
    • Crocodiles Need Kisses Too by Rebecca Colby
    • Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons
    • Hello, Neighbor; The Kind and Caring World of Mr. Rogers by Matthew Cordell
    • Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall

  • From Middle School Librarians

    • A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
    • The Season of Styx Malone by Magoon
    • From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
    • Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
    • Efren Divided by Cisneros
    • The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
    • What Lane by Torrey Maldonado
    • Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
    • Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
    • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Reynolds and Kendi
    • Dear Martin by Nic Stone
    • Slay by Brittney Morris
    • New Kid by Craft
    • Track series, As Brave as You, Look Both Ways, All American Boys, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
    • The Only Black Girls in Town by Colbert
    • Tristan Strong by Mbalia

  • From Upper School Librarians

    • Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou by Melissa M. Martin
    • The Bicycle Man by Bob Deans
    • The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
    • Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran
    • A Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
    • Writers & Lovers by Lily King

  • From the Office of Diversity and Inclusion

    • Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
    • White Fragility, Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin D’Angelo
    • The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chung
    • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
    • Real American by Judith Lythcott-Haimes
    • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
    • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
    • The Half that Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
    • How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
    • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
    • Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green
    • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
    • Stamped! Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

  • Beach Reads (from Southern Living magazine)

    • 28 Summers by Elin Hildebrand
    • Beach Read by Emily Henry
    • Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause
    • On Ocean Boulevard by Alice Mary Monroe
    • Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
    • Girls of summer by Nancy Thayer
    • Hello Summer by Mary Kay Andrews
    • Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
    • So We Can Glow: Stories by Leesa Cross-Smith
    • A Week at the Shore by Barbara Delinsky
    • The Key to Everything by Valerie Fraser Luesse
    • Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster
    • All Adults Here by Emma Straub
    • Wow, No thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby
    • The Somerset girls by Lori Foster
    • The Inn at Willa Bay by Nicole Ellis
    • The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin
    • Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
    • The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
    • A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson
    • Summer at Firefly Beach by Jenny Hale

Cougar Club

Cougar Club is all about fun. Watch the whole segment or select those that most interest you. Whether it is art, movement, cooking, reading, or laughing at the Club’s silly antics, Cougars in Grades JK-8 will enjoy seeing what the Club has to offer each and every week this summer.

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Episode 1


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  • Out and About

    Here are some suggestions of where to go and what to do on a fun summer day. And wherever you go, take a Collegiate Bear or Collegiate Flag (a la Flat Stanley), snap some pictures and send them into webmaster@collegiate-va.org.
     
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Divisional Summer Skills Opportunities

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