Thursday, August 25, 2011

TEAAM USM Takes off for a New Year!

I know we are all excited to be back at Southern Miss after a long summer break, and TEAAM USM is especially excited to be back for its second year!

Last year was a huge success; we had movie and pizza nights, volunteered at the Center Ridge outpost, heard some incredible speakers- and, oh yeah- raised over $2,000 to send four lucky kids to Kamp Kaleidoscope with the Rock for Autism!

This year we have even more plans up our sleeves for how to raise Autism awareness here on campus and throughout Mississippi. On Tuesday night TEAAM USM officers met to discuss some plans for the future of the club, and we all agreed that a Rock for Autism complete with limbo, rocking chairs, greasy cheesy pizza, hula hoops and dance-offs would definitely go on the Spring agenda. We also hope to take a group of TEAAM-sters to a weekend retreat at the Center Ridge Outpost- the new home for TEAAM's Adventure Camp Kamp Kaleidoscope- in October, and are even starting the process of pulling strings to bring in a surprise speaker to talk to us about living with Autism. (I'll give you a hint- we watched a movie about her last year at one of TEAAM USM's movie nights.) Speaking of which, we plan to have more of those movie nights as well. Come prepared to stuff your face with all the Oreos and Papa Johns pizza you can eat!

All this and more is coming up for TEAAM USM, so be sure to come join us! The first new member meeting will be Tuesday, August 30th at 6:30pm in Thad Cochran 216. We hope to see you all there, and can't wait to kick off another incredible year!

1 comment:

  1. Actually, that will be room 228, sorry about the mix-up!

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