Our friend and board member Karina came in to guide a workshop creating a website and an effective social media presence. Our mentees learned ways to use their social media platforms in order to effectively create a social media presence. Karina also taught our mentees how to create a website that is user friendly while still being appealing.
Thank so much Karina for coming in!
Budgeting is a huge topic that most people don’t touch upon until they are older and here at The Firehouse Dream we value teaching our mentees key life skills such as budgeting. Jasmine our executive director got our mentees thinking about how they want to value the money they earn.
Thank you Jasmine for showing our mentees an essential skill!
Our mentees learned how to create workmarks on Adobe Illustrator and they were able to create their own wordmarks! The mentees had fun creating and exploring their personal style in wordmarking. Carlos did an amazing job explaining the importance of wordmarking has in any industry.
Thank you Carlos for leading this workshop!
During this workshop the mentees were led by our friend and board member Deon. The mentees were able to learn directly from someone who owns a Brand Agency and they were taught about the importance/impact that branding has in our everyday lives. Deon showed the mentees effective ways on how to create a brand that stands out!
Thank you Deon for coming in and leading an amazing workshop!
We’re so excited to share the six projects that our spring mentees were able to accomplish during our 12 week mentorship program.
At the food distribution our mentees was designated different roles some did photography and some took part in the food distribution. This was a good way for them to learn how to tell a story through photography.
We joined Maywood’s annual community clean-up event by going to the Peace Garden led by Barbara Cole. We got to capture some behind the scenes of the community as they worked together to beautify the garden. We are excited for a possible future collaboration on redesigning the mural, we look forward to deepening our connect and our relationship with Barbara Cole.
Each mentee had a role in building Mariah’s website between capturing pictures for her website and modeling for her. This was truly a collaborative effort between the mentees which allowed them to show off their personal creative sides.
For Amanda’s project we split up the mentees into two groups. One group took lay flats of her work while the other group took part in taking the lifestyle pictures of Amanda in the environment they created for the pictures. It was so neat to see them have complete creative control over taking photo content.
In the fall Mariah will be studying to become an esthetician/make-up artist and she had a scholarship opportunity that would help with her tuition. For this project Jeremy Lopez and the mentees got together to help Mariah with her scholarship opportunity that required a video submission. This was an opportunity to teach them the three parts of making a good film: pre-production, production, and post production. While they weren’t able to do post-production together, the mentees did get to write the script and were able to film the project. We are excited to share that Mariah was selected for the scholarship! Yay we’re so proud of Mariah and what’s to come for her.
Our mentees hosted a photo campaign where they got to photograph and share the stories of their peers. Mariah provides make-up services that day as well. Check out their stories below!
