Community Outreach Program: English Summer Camp Program

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Community Outreach Program English Summer
CampProgram

• How to develop and strengthen chapters potential
  by giving support to a local community
• Piotr Plewinski, PMP
• PMI Gdansk, Poland Potential Chapter Sponsor

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Supporting those in need will give you a chance
to build a unique team spirit and exercise your
leadership skills.Chapters team will gain a
sense of self-actualization and energy to reach
for the higher stakes.
The message
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Agenda

• Introduction to PMI GPPC 20
• English Summer Camp Program Review 40
• Questions 10
• Discussion 20

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PMI Gdansk, Poland PC

• Established in February 2004
• Started as a group of 20 friends project
  managers
• Today 76 members
• Our mission
• Promote locally best practices in project
  management
• Serve local community
• Learn from each other
• Have fun!

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Our achievements in PM

• Free of charge PM Seminars for small business
  representatives
• PM seminars with special international guest
  Russell Archibald, PMI Fellow
• Seminars in co-operation with other Polish PMI
  Chapters
• Community Transformation Project (CTP) pilot

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Supporting local community

• 3 editions of English Summer Camp (2004, 2005,
  2006)
• 180 kids from local orphanages
• 720 hours of English education for orphans
• Free of charge design and support of Dom Rain
  Mana (Rain Man House) website
  www.domrainmana.pl

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English Summer Camp

• What intensive English course teach and play
• Where a camp in the forest on the bank of a
  small lake in the North of Poland
• When 4 weeks in the middle of a summer
• Who
• 60 kids from local orphanages (age 6-18)
• 14 volunteers of PMI GPPC 3 English teachers
  and supporting students

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Orphans in Poland

• There are 700 orphanages in Poland
• They accommodate 20 000 kids
• 98 are social orphans
• 34 live in the orphanages due to the financial
  situation in the family

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ESC Goals

• Support orphans in studying English
• Motivate the orphans, show them that hard work
  pays off
• Integrate PMI GPPC team
• Promote PMI in local community
• PM training for people supporting the project who
  are not project managers

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Preparations

• Team of 14 people
• Each year the preparations start around March
• Starts with lessons learned from the last edition
  and some brain storming
• 2 meetings per month
• Group planning
• Execution controlled by PM

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How does it work?

• 2x2 weeks course
• Children divided into 3 age groups
• 10 kids in every group
• Classes from 9am to 1pm
• Motivational system with prizes
• Additional activities

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The course

• Based on the best English studying aims delivered
  by our sponsor Pearson Education Polska (Longman)
  each year they support us with free of charge
  books for the kids
• Delivered by professional teachers experienced in
  working with kids
• Study and have fun

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Motivational system

• The kids receive points from the teachers for
• Activity
• Work in class
• Dedication to the course
• Supporting others
• In each group 3 kids with the highest amount of
  point receive special prizes (mountain bikes,
  digital cameras, mp3 players)
• Every participant receives a certificate and
  gifts at the end

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Certificate
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Additional activities

• Excursions
• Meetings with famous people
• Additional courses

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Additional courses

• Building self confidence
• Limiting the aggression level
• Self-defense
• Fishing classes
• Guitar classes
• Movie classes

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This years edition

• 90 kids (50 growth)
• 2 locations in PMI Poland Gdansk Branch area
• 4 orphanages involved
• 4 English teachers
• New volunteers involved

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Benefits for the kids

• Development of English language skills
• Building a positive approach to studying,
  studying English in particular
• Foster self confidence
• Lower down the aggression level
• Motivational system builds a positive approach
  if I work hard, I can get something special

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Benefits for the community

• Passing on project management skills to the
  volunteers
• Support to orphanage staff in organizing the
  summer time activities for the kids
• Extra work for the English teachers during the
  summer time break
• Showing the example, that everybody can do
  something valuable for those in need

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Benefits for the chapter

• Integration of the chapters team
• Positive spirit influence other chapters
  activities
• Very positive PR for PMI and our chapter in
  particular
• Support in bringing new individuals into the
  chapter (people like to work on interesting
  projects)

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Future of the project

• After CTP project we will try to expand the
  project to other places in Poland in 2008
• We would like to inspire chapters in other
  countries to do something similar and maybe
  organize exchange of the kids in the future
• We will be applying for the PMI Component Award
  for this project, to bring more attention to it
  and promote and expand the idea

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Questions

• ?

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Discussion

• GENERATE IDEAS !!!
• What could you do this year to support your local
  community and share your knowledge and experience?

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Contact information

• ESC project manager
• Marzena Zimnicka, PMP
• mzimnicka_at_era.pl
• Presenter
• Piotr Plewinski, PMP
• piotr.plewinski_at_pmi.org.pl