Imago Dei Middle School, Tucson

On Saturday morning, 6th graders Bill and Ange joined Imago Dei's Enrichment Director, Mr. Frank, for a check presentation at Sprouts #23 (1st and Wetmore). The school earned a generous grant of $6,500 to support expansion of our nutrition education programs that will grow our already successful efforts. The check presentation was one of 424 made by Sprouts and the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation on Saturday all across the country.

With this support, Imago Dei students will be learning even more about nutrition, healthy approaches to their food diets, culinary arts, gardening and more. We appreciate the generous support of Brian and the entire team at Store 23, their customers, and the entire Sprouts organization.

Our last new photos for this Friday night, but our team will be hard at work tomorrow getting even more Chapel Rock all-school camp photos out to Facebook for these amazing kids' families and friends to share.

Sharing even more photos from our week at Chapel Rock camp in Prescott.

Sharing more photos from all-school camp at Chapel Rock in Prescott. We had a blast!

Another posting of tons of photos - and tons of fun - from this week's all-school camp at Chapel Rock. Several hundred more photos - and videos from things like our Variety Show and the "Leap Of Faith" - will be added over the long holiday weekend. Enjoy!

It's Thursday morning here at camp and we're in our final few hours of fun before the buses roll back on down to Tucson for late afternoon arrival. Please enjoy more photos from Tuesday and Wednesday activities. The Variety Show from last night we'll hopefully post this weekend (it's mostly video!).

It's time for UNEDITED CAMP WEEK PHOTO POST #5! With multiple cameras and too much fun being had up here in Prescott, we're temporarily going to stop editing our favorite photos in favor of sharing LOTS of photos. Here's another 35 or so photos with great memories and great smiles. With Eucharist and the Variety Show both coming up after dinner, these might be our last posts until later tonight (if the adults are still awake by then!) If we don't post later tonight, we'll get up before the kids on Thursday morning to share even more great photos!

It's time for UNEDITED CAMP WEEK PHOTO POST #4! With multiple cameras and too much fun being had up here in Prescott, we're temporarily going to stop editing our favorite photos in favor of sharing LOTS of photos. Here's another 40 or so with more to come throughout Wednesday afternoon!

It's time for UNEDITED CAMP WEEK PHOTO POST #3! With multiple cameras and too much fun being had up here in Prescott, we're temporarily going to stop editing our favorite photos in favor of sharing LOTS of photos. Here's another 30 or so with more to come throughout Wednesday afternoon!

It's time for UNEDITED CAMP WEEK PHOTO POST #2! With multiple cameras and too much fun being had up here in Prescott, we're temporarily going to stop editing our favorite photos in favor of sharing LOTS of photos. Here's another 40 or so with more to come throughout Wednesday afternoon!

It's time for UNEDITED CAMP WEEK PHOTO POST #1! With multiple cameras and too much fun being had up here in Prescott, we're temporarily going to stop editing our favorite photos in favor of sharing LOTS of photos. Here's 30 or so to get you started with more to come throughout Wednesday afternoon!

Building on the camp's lessons on teamwork, our students enjoyed Cool Runnings as their Tuesday Night Movie at our annual camp in Prescott.

This morning our entire student body of 88 kids, with most of our teachers and staff (and some of our graduates for extra support) rolled out of downtown on two comfy buses for the 4+ hour trip to Chapel Rock Camp in Prescott. This annual tradition is equal parts community building and fun, with the kids doing everything from big group and field games, kayaking and swimming to ropes courses, "the leap of faith," a variety show and a campfire. Please see our Facebook and Instagram pages all this week and into the weekend for many more photos and videos as we capture this life changing and life affirming week for our scholars.

More amazing creativity from Santa Theresa Tile Works - Downtown Tucson. Remember: your purchases (retail, online, workshops and classes) generate proceeds that support our tuition-free school. Learn more at https://www.santatheresatileworks.com/

Our students aren't the only ones excited to head to our annual camp in Prescott on Monday! Watch this space for photos all next week as our scholars, teachers and staff build community, teamwork and friendships up at Chapel Rock.

On Monday, Imago Dei scholars, teachers and staff participated in our annual oath signing ceremony, signing their names to a pledge to uphold our values of Respect, Honesty, Responsibility and Excellence. The signed Oath is posted for the year at the entrance to our school as a reminder to all of the values that we celebrate and embrace.

The first day of school is in the books! We welcomed 36 new students to Imago Dei as part of a total enrollment of 87 - our largest group of scholars ever. We're excited to launch our greatest year ever!

It's Wednesday and that means it's time to welcome our students and families to our Orientation sessions! This year we're especially excited to welcome 36 new students to Imago Dei - that is more than 40% of our entire student body. We're welcoming new teachers, staff and a new chaplain, too! Please join us in our excitement for the great year of learning, growing and fun that we'll have together.

9 Days 9 Ways to Support Imago Dei: #6 School Clothing Campaign

https://givebutter.com/imagoclothes

Imago Dei provides our students their uniform polo shirts at no cost, but many of our families struggle to afford other school clothing for their constantly growing middle schoolers, like pants, shoes, and sweatshirts or sweaters (yes, even in Tucson!).



We have established a separate donation page in the hopes of receiving $2,000 in support that can be used to purchase gift cards for school shopping. As funds are raised, these cards will be given in $50 increments to the families most struggling with clothing costs. As a donor, you can even pick which stores we buy the gift cards from. If you can give $50, that will directly support one family. But all gifts are helpful and appreciated. Thank you!

As we get ready for the school year to start on August 9th, we're sharing 9 ways that YOU can support Imago Dei Middle School and our mission of breaking the cycles of poverty through education.

#5 on our list: take a class or workshop, commission a piece, or shop at the retail store for - because all proceeds from Santa Theresa Tile Works come back to support our school. Not 5% on a special night - 100% and always. There are projects for all levels of skill and interest, and fun to be had alone, in groups and with families.

Website link in the Facebook comments.

We're now only 8 days away from welcoming our largest group of students EVER (while still maintaining our excellent, small school ways!). To celebrate and to win YOUR support for our mission of breaking the cycles of poverty through education, we're offering 9 ways that YOU can support Imago Dei.

𝐃𝐚𝐲 2, 𝐖𝐚𝐲 2: buy a ticket in the Millions for Tucson raffle! You could win a 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Plug-In Hybrid (or airline tickets or $5000 cash!). Learn more at https://www.imagodeischool.org/millions/ Tickets are $25 each or 5 for $100.

Imago Dei celebrates the collective works of Black author, playwright and civil rights activist James Baldwin. Friday marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.

His influence is wonderfully summarized in a brief article by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. You can find that article linked in the comment section of this post.

Check out James Baldwin's works - literally! - by paying a visit to your local branch of the Pima County Public Library.

We're 9 days away from welcoming our largest group of students EVER (while still maintaining our excellent, small school ways!). To celebrate and to win YOUR support for our mission of breaking the cycles of poverty through education, we're offering 9 ways that YOU can support Imago Dei.

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟏, 𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝟏: become a monthly donor! Learn more by following the link in the comments. Monthly gifts are a great way to give more over time while providing more stability to our school's funding for the year ahead.

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On July 16th our Graduate Support Program (GSP) hosted some Imago Dei alumni for a trip over to Ace Of Escape escape rooms for a little summer fun. Grads were split into teams to conquer "That 70s Room" and "Freeing Frosty." Did our Imago Dei graduates show the teamwork, creative problem solving and intelligence needed to get out of the rooms on time? OF COURSE THEY DID!

Adventures like this are just part of the GSP staff's work to stay in touch with all Imago Dei alumni, tracking their progress toward high school graduation, providing them with academic assistance, and helping them choose and apply to colleges and training programs. To date, more than 95% of IDMS alumni old enough to have graduated high school have done so, and more than 85% of those students are pursuing post-secondary education. We couldn’t be more proud!

Photos by IDMS intern (and alum!) Star Ikamba.

Love music? We're looking for music fans to give $19 a month to sponsor violin rentals for six more students who want to start in-school violin lessons in August. You can be a supporting patron of the arts! (Other donation amounts gladly accepted, too.)

We have the teachers, expertise, and space - we literally just need the violins, which we'll rent from local Tucson music stores. Let's "band" together to make this happen for our kids. Learn more today at our Violin page on our website, link in the comments.