At Rebel, we have something called the Rebel Review. The Rebel Review is an anonymous survey that asks each crewmember and mentor to rate each other on effort and attitude from 1 to 5. This is completed every 2 weeks. A score of 5 means that a crewmember is exhibiting fantastic effort and has a great attitude, while a score of 1 means that a crewmembers attitude and effort could use some improvement. Tre’Cia, the crew leader,...
How do we know we are doing good work? We know it when we see it. The Rebel crew uses photovoice to to show the impact we create. Photovoice is simply using a camera to document an experience from the perspective of the participant. From a picture we better understand the stacks of banana and strawberry banana ice cream Kel produced for kids at Lea, Comegys, and Huey. Fleshae is growing confident with the camera. The Rebel cake research and development project...
[caption id="attachment_1504" align="aligncenter" width="232"] Some of the students helping out with the taste-testing trying ur six new combinations of the ReBel Bar.[/caption] This morning, I walked into Samuel B Huey elementary school. Last week, we gave tons of children carrots and hummus to try. They learned a lot about carrots. We got around forty taste test cards. Today, we did the taste-testing again and many of the children were excited and familiar with what we were...
Tucked away in the backyard of Comegys Elementary School is a budding urban garden full of ripe fruits and vegetables. Walking past the entrance of the school, you would have never guessed that a variety of healthy deliciousness is growing in their own playground! Here, the kids have the unmatched opportunity to grow their own food that is used by Comegys for the Cooking Crew and Fruit Stand afterschool programs. Both programs are food education activities...
Coming back had made me realize how much I miss Rebel Ventures. A lot changed and I'm still adapting to it. I met the new rebel crew and all I can see is potential and inspiration. It makes me happy when I see youth trying to make a difference in the community and seeing the company continue to do great and better things! Everyday, there's always something new to learn and things to experience. For...
Last Friday, I attended Cooking Crew Academy for the second time. Cooking Crew Academy, held at Comegys Elementary School in West Philadelphia, is an after school activity that empowers kids to become young chefs by cooking healthy dishes for themselves and their peers. The kids are given a great amount of autonomy and jump right in. They get to choose what dish they want to cook from an array of ingredients with an emphasis on...
Our mission is to create healthy deliciousness with kids in schools and in our community. In order to know if we're doing a good job accomplishing this mission, we need to figure out how to measure healthy deliciousness. Capturing data on healthy deliciousness helps us learn, grow, and improve. All Rebel crewmembers are responsible for collecting information about the healthy deliciousness created in their department each week. During our weekly staff meeting, we each report out...
Rebel Ventures has been developing a few new products over the last few months. One such product is the Rebel Cake, what I feel to be our tastiest product yet. Our crew loves the cake and are always excited to make it. Soon, we plan on having these cakes as a healthy and delicious alternative to the current breakfast offered at elementary schools in Philadelphia. On Thursday, we took these cakes to Huey to see how...
Last week, I started working with ReBel Ventures and I could not be happier with the experience so far. My first task was to make the seeds. I had no idea what that meant, but within a few minutes, I had my hairnet, gloves, and red apron on and I was ready to go. We measured the seeds and put different spices on them. After we baked them, we put them in bags. In my...
One of my favorite things about last week was the ReBel Ventures full crew meeting. We have one every Thursday from 3:30 to 6:30PM. This is where the entire crew, including mentors, gets together to discuss and work on things like future goals, pros and grows (things that are/were good and things that could use improvement), and any new ideas that we might have. We also break off into our departments (accounting, design, marketing, operations,...
