Connect at UTMB

Connect at UTMB works to uplift children at Galveston Independent School District schools by offering tutoring services and exposing them to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and art) topics. Below is a photo of current Fellow Salman Farooqui after distributing 200 backpacks and school supplies donated from ICNA Relief to help support GISD students for the academic year.

Congratulations to our tutors and mentors of the semester 🥳 These volunteers were chosen by the Site Coordinators for their enthusiasm and dedication! As we wrap up the semester, we want to say thank you to ALL our volunteers who go above and beyond each week to teach, support, and empower young students. We are grateful for your time and energy!

Interested in volunteering with UTMB Connect this semester? Our application deadline has been extended! Please fill out the application form by Wednesday, January 11! 😊

Application Link: http://tinyurl.com/utmbconnect23

Connect at UTMB is a mentorship program led and run by UTMB students to provide elementary and middle school students the opportunity to explore careers in STEM 🔬📚 If you are interested in mentoring or joining our leadership team, please fill out our Spring 2023 application (link below)!

Spring 2023 Application: https://forms.gle/PEggFSxKBuKmRE4A8

We wrapped up our Fall 2022 semester with a pizza and letter writing party 🍕 A huge shout-out to the students, UTMB volunteers, site coordinators, and GISD for helping make this program possible! Please check out the recent Galveston Daily News article highlighting UTMB Connect's impact on the community: https://www.galvnews.com/news/article_340203c6-3a23-5f83-8638-403acf461a62.html

This hands-on experiment managed to take our breath away! Using plastic bottles, balloons, straws, and tape, students created lung models and learned how the organ functions in our bodies! 🫁

Earlier in November, Connect mentors helped students create their own roller coasters using construction paper and cardboard! 🎢

A treat-filled experiment just in time for Halloween! Last week, students used pieces of candy to create colorful models of the DNA double helix structure 🍬🧬

Future engineers in the making!💡During our week 4 workshop, UTMB Connect mentors helped students apply concepts of gravity, air resistance, and impact forces to create containers that could protect an egg when dropped!

80°F in October = the perfect weather for homemade ice cream! This week's STEM workshop involved learning about heat transfer and using household ingredients to make vanilla ice cream 🍨

A little food coloring and some Alka-seltzer tablets can go a long way! This past week, our mentors helped students explore properties such as density and polarity by making DIY lava lamps and rainbow milk 🌈 Check out these colorful creations from Austin Middle School below!

Kicking off UTMB Connect’s first tutoring and mentoring sessions of the fall semester! 🏫📚🔬We have nearly 150 volunteers across Burnet Elementary, LA Morgan Elementary, Rosenberg Elementary, and Austin Middle School helping lead STEM workshops and provide individualized tutoring support for young students!

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Hello Class of 2026!

Hope y’all are having a great return back from July 4th weekend! UTMB Connect is BACK this Fall 2022 semester to serve GISD, and begin another great semester of volunteering!

Connect at UTMB is a mentorship and tutoring program for socioeconomically disadvantaged GISD elementary and middle school students -- and is the LARGEST community outreach organization at UTMB. Our mission is to inspire and empower the next generation of leaders interpersonally and academically by way of exploring STEM fields, while creating an opportunity for interdisciplinary UTMB student professionals to connect with the Galveston community.

This is a really fun way for you all to obtain a ton of community service experience and leadership, with a low time commitment each week so you can study and get involved with other things!

Visit our website, www.utmbconnect.org, to learn more about us or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions!

Our application is currently open to anyone interested in volunteering as a mentor/tutor or joining our leadership team! Applications will close 08/08/22, 11:59 PM.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYQOU0o5qsLdr8Cri-BGQ0_-yeJo7yVjdxoqmw5YVupyiHXw/viewform?usp=pp_url

Complete your application and pay your membership dues this week by Tuesday, July 12th to be entered into our first raffle (win 1 of 3 $25 gift cards--Sugar Bean, Red Light, MOD coffeehouse). There will be more raffles in the coming weeks, and you’d be entered into those too!

We'll have an interest session on Tuesday, July 26th at 6:30 PM! More information will be provided in the coming weeks.

Our mentors had a great time with our mentees making their own ice cream last week! Thank you everyone for participating and making such a sweet (and yummy) experience for every student on each campus!

Hey everyone! Just a friendly reminder that UTMB Connect applications are due TONIGHT at 11:59 PM.

UTMB Connect is a great way to serve our local GISD community while having fun with your classmates and taking a break from schoolwork.

We have tutor and mentor positions open, along with LEADERSHIP positions available.

Application Link: https://forms.gle/vyUEVEvCLMDHwG537

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions!

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Happy New Year's Eve everyone!

Just another reminder that UTMB Connect applications to being a mentor, tutor, or leadership member for Spring 2022 are due soon!

Connect at UTMB is a mentorship and tutoring program for socioeconomically disadvantaged GISD elementary and middle school students -- the largest at UTMB! Connect helps to empower the next generation of leaders interpersonally and academically by way of exploring STEM fields, while creating an opportunity for interdisciplinary UTMB student professionals to connect with the Galveston community.

Joining Connect is a really fun way for you to obtain a ton of community service experience and leadership, with a low time commitment each week (only 1.5 hrs/week)!

Please check out www.utmbconnect.org for more information!

The link to the application is here: https://forms.gle/hTRsQo8NdsVNKEMn6

🚨 The deadlines for the applications are soon!
Leadership application: January 2nd, 11:59 PM
General application: January 5th, 11:59 PM.

Thank you!

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That's the end of Connect for this semester! Thank you to GISD, Texas ACE, and our community partners for making this experience possible. The mentors and tutors are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to engage with the local community and help the students in Galveston understand their own potential in STEM.

See you next semester! 🎉

Our mentees were young engineers for the Egg Drop Workshop last week! Each mentee created their own contraption to prevent their eggs from breaking after a high drop. Thank you everyone for participating and allowing creativity and ingenuity to thrve on each campus!

Our mentors had a great time with our mentees making Lava Lamps and Rainbow Milk last week! Thank you everyone for participating and making such a colorful experience for every student on each campus!

Hello everyone!
Get excited, UTMB Connect is starting this week, and we can't wait to have all the mentors and tutors at our campuses! We'll be meeting our peers and mentees/tutees and doing IceBreakers to get to know everyone better.

Remember:
Tutoring is on Tuesdays and mentoring is on Thursdays. Additionally, we'll be handing out t-shirts this week!

Have a great week, and we're excited to have you all pour your love into the Galveston Community!

Learning about health can be fun too! We had a great workshop yesterday led by our UTMB mentors. The students learned about the kidneys and why they are so important!

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