The Child Care Expansion Project is a partnership between Nonprofit Alliance and Greenville County Schools. They are distributing CARES act funding to community partners (like 4-H) to provide enrichment programs to these childcare sites that are stepping up to fill the gap in childcare for kids not in school during alternate schedule days. Every Monday afternoon for ten weeks, Greenville County 4-H Agent, Patricia Whitener, meets with each Child Care Expansion Site for an hour via zoom to engage youth through the STEM lessons from Journey to Mars (state 4-H program) and Mars Base Camp (national 4-H program). All materials were provided in kits for each child and delivered to Foundations Early Learning (K-2), Goddard School (3rd-5th grade), and Potential Afterschool Center (4th and 5th graders). 4-H is reaching kids through innovative, hands-on virtual learning and supporting our community partners in providing safe, healthy learning environments and childcare activities for hard-working families across Greenville county.
Feedback from the first session:
“Good Evening, Our teachers were very impressed with your presentation and how smoothly everything went – thank you so much for the opportunity to participate.”
Marisa Flemming, Center Director
“Yesterday was wonderful!! The children really enjoyed the lesson and kept asking me all afternoon when the next one was :)”
Tina Bright, Curriculum Coordinator
Submitted by: Patricia Whitener, Greenville County 4-H Agent
