Afterschool Students Showcase Their Stepping Skills in New Jersey!
New Jersey After 3’s 3rd Annual Stepping Exhibition
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – JUNE 11, 2009 – New Jersey After 3, a statewide network of afterschool programs dedicated to expanding afterschool opportunities for New Jersey’s kids, hosted their 3rd Annual Regional Step Exhibitions recently: Southern Regional Exhibition (5/16) at Trenton Catholic Academy in Trenton, NJ and Northern Regional Exhibition (6/6)at Caldwell College in Caldwell, NJ.
The exhibition showcased the skills learned and developed from training with President of Remo Productions, Jessica Morales who was featured on MTV’s “True Life: I’m Stepping”, as she won the National Championship with her team in January 2007
The New Jersey After 3 Stepping Program was instituted in partnership with Remo Production, as part of New Jersey After 3’s broader Sports, Health and Fitness Initiatives – aimed at increasing children’s physical activity levels and reducing childhood obesity. In addition to learning the stepping skills, it has also helped students to facilitate important character building components, such as self-esteem, discipline, conflict resolution and team work.
Joined by over 1,000 family and community members, approximately 500 student steppers (grades K-8) from the following 28 afterschool sites within the New Jersey After 3 network participated in both regional events:
Southern Regional Exhibition
Boys & Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer – Monument, Grant, Gregory, Mott Elementary, & Mott Middle School – Trenton
Communities in Schools – R..C. Molina – Camden
Education Works – Wilson & Cadwalder Schools – Trenton
E.I.R.C – Lindenwold Middle School – Lindenwold
E.I.R.C – R.T. Cream Family School – Camden
Kimball Medical Center Foundation – Ella G. Clarke School– Trenton
Newark Museum – Calvin Coolidge & Hurden Looker Schools – Hillside
Northern Regional Exhibition
Boys & Girls Club of Clifton – Clifton Elementary School #17 – Clifton
Boys & Girls Club of Hudson County – PS#34 & PS#27 – Jersey City
Boys & Girls Club of Paterson/Passaic – School #1 – Paterson
Focus Hispanic Center – Broadway Elementary, Sussex Avenue & Thirteenth Avenue – Newark
Jewish Family Services – Linden #1, #4, #5 – Linden
Mental Health Clinic of Passaic – Martin Luther King School 36, Passaic PS#11 – Passaic
Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges – Whitney Houston Academy – East Orange
Protestant Community Centers Inc – Burnet School– Newark
Urban League of Essex County – Union Avenue Middle School – Newark
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 11, 2009
CONTACT:
Shannon Boehmer
New Jersey After 3
(267) 241-5824
sboehmer@njafter3.org
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