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PORTLAND, Maine

Connecting with kids: Â鶹´«Ã½holds 3rd annual Boys and Girls Club Festival

Â鶹´«Ã½Boys and Girls Club Festival 2016

More than 150 Portland children participated in the third annual Boys and Girls Club festival with 40 students from the Â鶹´«Ã½. The students represented a variety of majors including Applied Exercise Science, Athletic Training, Dental Hygiene, Health Wellness & Occupational Studies, Nursing, Nutrition, Pharmacy and Physical Therapy. 

Together with the Westbrook College of Health Professions Office of Service Learning, Assistant Clinical Professor Katie Hawke and Assistant Professor Bethany Fortier, M.P.H., helped to spearhead student engagement and supervised the activities. The group participated in agility stations, basketball, games and a glitter slime craft activity as well as cooking dinner for the kids. 

In addition to volunteering at the festival, the Â鶹´«Ã½students gathered several boxes of donated pasta and sauce for the Boys and Girls Club to use in their dinner service, which provides much needed meals to many of its members. 

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About the Â鶹´«Ã½

The Â鶹´«Ã½ is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.