Tech Training @ Boys & Girls Club in Endicott

The Broome CITY Project held a tech training at the Boys & Girls Club in Endicott today.  Celeste Carmichael, CITY Tech Coordinator, demonstrated how to post to the blog-style website, how to add photos and add video to the website.  Watch here for new content!

Black History Play

Students from the CITY Project put on a play for fifth graders at Theodore Roosevelt. CITY Project stands for Community Improvement Through Youth and we are also known as the Agents of Change. The students dedicated their time and work into this play. They gave up their lunch just to educate younger students on Black [...]

CITY Project goes to Albany

In February, two members from the CITY Project in Endicott and four members from Binghamton went to the capital of New York, Albany. These members went to the Capitol Building to spread the ideas of CITY Project. They met Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, Assemblyman Clifford Crouch, and State Senator Tom Libous. They spoke with their legislators [...]

Sharing CITY with the Community

On April 16 Barbyly Noel and An Ngo, members of the CITY Project, attended a Children and Youth Service Council meeting. An and Barbyly attended along with Dr.  June Mead, CITY Project’s state director, and presented the CITY Project: A Civic Engagement Model as the program has been the recipient of many awards. An and Barbyly got to talk about some [...]

Caroling at the Handicapped Children’s Association

In December 2008, CITY Project from Binghamton and Endicott went to the Handicapped Children’s Association dressed as reindeers and Santa Claus and sang for the children – ages 1 to 5.
Miguel Southee dressed up as Rudolph and while the Project was singing, he danced with some of the boys and girls.  Dylan Bridges also dressed [...]

Letters to Gov. Patterson

 Programs like CITY Project which help youth in many different ways could be left with no funding. The CITY Project helps us improve ourselves, teaches us different ways to handle problems, shows us our true potential, keeps us in line, as well as many other qualities that can help us as adults.
Some of the students [...]

My First Day In The CITY Project…By James, Luis, and Julia

Today we had this meeting of sorts. We learned to post articles right here on our Blog.  I decided to write about our three new members, - Julia, Luis, and Moi (James) – . The CITY Project is  VERY cool, and…I like it, alot. We plan on continuing our participation here in the CITY Project.

The Endicott Carriage House

 In Endicott we talked to the village board to see what we could do as a project to improve the community. Mr. Frank Flint said that we should look at the “Old Carriage House”. This building was a historic Endicott Johnson “Home of the Square Deal” building. It is located behind the library which was originally [...]

Endicott and Binghamton Trip to NYC

On April 24th the kids from the Broome County CITY groups of Endicott and Binghamton took a bus from the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Broome to NYC. Everyone who arrived for the trip arrived at 6:00 a.m. tired, but with smiles on their faces. By 6:45 a.m. we left the CCE building and were on [...]

The Donald Cole Scholarship Fund

One of the most prestigious teachers at Binghamton High School, Mr. Cole, is leaving to pursue a new job opportunity in Hershey, Pennsylvania. For all that Mr. Cole has given to the students, the school, the community CITY Project had decided to start the Donald Cole Scholarship Fund.
In order to have the Donald Cole Scholarship Fund, we needed to raise [...]