T.G.F.: March 2015

Sunday, March 29, 2015

03 28 2015 The Golden Fold at the PHAT Conference and Norfolk State's STEM day

Scenes from a few of our Golden Fold's Young Leaders at NSU's High School Science day. Our Young Leaders engaged in Robotics, Cryptography, and internet/video Gaming.

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The Golden Fold Mentor Movement is a mentor-ship program serving young males and fathers. We serve 6th - 12th grade youth by providing Leadership and S.T.E.M. activities in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We serve the concept of improved/involved fatherhood by providing fatherhood activities. Contact: thegoldenfold @ yahoo (dot) com . The Golden Fold is a "Brothers and Others" Community Improvement activity of the Gamma Xi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi and the Gamma Xi Uplift Foundation.

Images from our 3/24/15 Engineering Egg Drop Session

This session was focused on our Young Leaders constructing a protective device to prevent an unboiled egg from cracking when dropped from 10 feet by only using balloons, plastic straws, tape, and cardboard.

Yeah..........One egg cracked............

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The Golden Fold Mentor Movement is a mentor-ship program serving young males and fathers. We serve 6th - 12th grade youth by providing Leadership and S.T.E.M. activities in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We serve the concept of improved/involved fatherhood by providing fatherhood activities. Contact: thegoldenfold @ yahoo (dot) com . The Golden Fold is a "Brothers and Others" Community Improvement activity of the Gamma Xi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi and the Gamma Xi Uplift Foundation.

Photos from our 3/11/15 Lego-Robotic Session

During this session we used computers to create robots using Lego pieces ! This session was co-sponsored by the Virginia Beach Sylvan Learning Center and directed by their director Mrs. Villanueva.

Bridge Builder Stephens oversees our Young Leaders while being led by Mrs. Villanueva from Sylvan Learning Center of Virginia Beach.

Our Omega Mentors and Bridge Builders oversee our Young Leaders.

Omega Mentor Wallace leads his team.

We ended our Technology session with a physical physics lesson led my Omega Mentors.

It's all good !

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The Golden Fold Mentor Movement is a mentor-ship program serving young males and fathers. We serve 6th - 12th grade youth by providing Leadership and S.T.E.M. activities in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We serve the concept of improved/involved fatherhood by providing fatherhood activities. Contact: thegoldenfold @ yahoo (dot) com . The Golden Fold is a "Brothers and Others" Community Improvement activity of the Gamma Xi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi and the Gamma Xi Uplift Foundation.

The Golden Fold

G.M.A.C., The Golden Fold Mentor Movement is a mentorship program serving young males and fathers. We serve 6th - 12th grade youth by providing Leadership and S.T.E.M. activities in Virginia Beach, Virginia's Green Run High School as an eveniung activity of Green Run's GMAC mentor program. We serve the concept of improved/involved fatherhood by providing fatherhood mentorship activities. Contact: thegoldenfold @ yahoo (dot) com . The Golden Fold is a "Brothers and Others" Community Improvement activity of the Gamma Xi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi and the Gamma Xi Uplift Foundation.

Our Lamplight Concepts

Our Lamplight concepts are Sound Adulthood (Responsibility, leadership, and being morally based), Scholarship (Financial savvy, Political awareness, and being coachable), Endurance (being unwavering, becoming and remaining self motivated), and Uplift (increasing one’s physical, mental, and spiritual strength while improving one’s self, family, and community).

Our Lamplight icons are Dr. Ernest Everett Just – Omega Psi Phi (Sound Adulthood), Arturo Schomberg – Kappa Alpha Psi (Scholarship), Thurgood Marshall (Endurance), and Dr. Martin Luther King – Alpha Phi Alpha (Uplift). Our former icon, Dr. Cosby, has been respectfully replaced due to recent controversy.