We have two new prospective ReBel crewmembers that have been joining us in the kitchen and in our meetings for the past few days. Meet Nasir and Nyeem. They are both high school students that have worked with the Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative before. They were a really big help in the kitchen last week! They sped up the time it takes for us to package bars! In our full crew meeting, they helped us with new...
Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts. ReBel Ventures has officially started packaging our amazing fruit-filled cakes. When most people think of cakes, they think that deserts are delicious. Oh boy, these square bundles are so delicious! [caption id="attachment_1560" align="aligncenter" width="288"] Our beautifully packaged ReBel cakes.[/caption] Last Friday, we brought several cakes to Comegys Elementary School. I worked with the fruit stand crew where we decided to try a new tactic. We made the usual smoothies with kiwi, strawberries,...
On Monday, I took a trip down to Comegys to help out the kids with Cooking Crew Academy after school for the first time. I am a huge foodie and love cooking, so I was excited to see what all the hype was about! Cooking Crew is a food education activity where students create a meal to serve to their peers. Not only do they get to fight over which ingredients to use in their...
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...