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Three years..

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Presentation of project activites of the tutors in Romania

This was my third year in aces !

Toma Florin Ungureanu- computers, foreign languages, volunteering, travel, sports, music, photography

I started as coordinator of my colleagues volunteers in the aces project cycle 2011-2012, when my former middle school carried an aces project on the topics of volunteering. Within that project we had our first experiences with our friends, the students with disabilities from Special Middle School "Constantin Paunescu".

Then, in 2012-2013, their school became member of "Acesland" and I was delighted  when they invited us to be tutors-volunteers .

The most beautiful moment came in April 2013, when OUR project received the award for Innovative learning!

And now, in 2013-2014, they also received the grant! When I was invited to come back, for my third year as coordinator of volunteers, I was very proud for me and for my colleagues, the tutors from the informal group "E&T Battle Station"! 

Now we are highschool students and we are spread in many colleges but we found the entire understanding and support from our teachers - ad we were able to support the participation of our friends at project activities.

As always, we are glad that together we succeeded to accomplish the goals of the project. And I have the feeling that we will come back at "Paunescu", because, as we stated at the end of our first year of collaboration, "in the matter of volunteering, the best is yet to come!"- and our friends from "Paunescu", students, teachers and everybody, will welcome us as they do every time, with the warmest smiles the most honest friendship!

Here are the tutors-volunteers members of our informal group "E&T Battle Station" that were the most active within the project activities this year- and their hobbies. They used their own hobbies to support the participation of the pupils with special needs. Many thanks my friends and can't wait to meet you in new projects, for new experiences!

Alex "The Entertainer" Luca: computer games, travel, volunteering

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Iulia Dorneanu: politics for youth, computers, volunteering

"Little" Alex Stefan: computers, travel, volunteering

Lavinia "Lav" Olanescu: literature writing, travel, foreing languages, music

Alex "Tode" Toderica- dog pets rising, photography, travel

Teodora "Teo" Petrescu- Social sciences, music, foreign languages, travel

Sergiu Chiuchiu- computers, foreign languages, volunteering, travel

Andreea "Deea" Clopotel- visual arts, music, volunteering

Project report in pictures...

Hello, everybody!
Here we are, at the end of a marvelous project cycle!
Many new friends and many beautiful memories! We worked at the project reports and we made two photo albums , one for Bulgaria and one for Romania. You can download them from the links below:
Photo album Bulgaria
Photo album Romania
Enjoy!

Martenitza Fair at Golia Tower- We are there, step in, it's open!

In February 2013, during our aces project "Media voices 4 special teens",  we started a wonderfull partnership with Tourism Promotion Center, a non-profit organization from Iasi, Romania. Since then, we were constantly invited at the occasional fairs, to sell the handmade products of our talented pupils from Special Middle School "Constantin Paunescu" Iasi, Romania, as fundraising activities. The money that we obtain are used to support the educational activities of our school, where the children have the opportunity to practice their hobbies.
Here are some photos took today in the front of Golia Monastery, where my colleagues will be tomorrow too, to wait for you!
The most impressive thing for us, every time when we have this sort of campaigns,, is that people with fewer opportunities have full understanding and are our usual and faithfull buyers!

Ice-skating contest

Stutdents from Special Middle School "Constatin Paunescu" participated at a ice-skating contest organised by Technical Special College "Vasile Pavelcu".



 Andrei, Special Middle School Student: "I think that this is a very good idea because we like sports. It was fun and the ice was nice. I liked it very much!"

First meeting...

Our first meeting of 2014 took place today, with the help of the tutors: Toma, Iulia and Sergiu. Can't wait for the next one.

The power of 3- lucky me!

In geometry you need 3 points to draw a plane surface in space. 

In the activity within this project seems that we are protected by the power of 3!


Because I found 3 brave boys for the project visit in Bulgaria and everything was great!

Toma, Alex "The Entertainer", and "Little" Alex at Cape Kaliakra

...Because I needed volunteers for the contest 

and I found 3 future specialists in my field that came to help us!

...Because, for the same contest, Teo found a surprising solution to accomplish the "bring your friends to help us" assignment!

...Because I was lucky enough one more time on Saturday morning to find a team of 3 true photographers to cover the event dedicated to children with disabilities!

...Because this week Tode made the proof of the teens capabilities one more time, by succeeding to go at 3 different activities in 3 different places in the same day!

Alexandru -"Tode"

The previous year we said that our project "Media voices 4 special teens" was written in the stars...

Well, I think that what defines the best this new project is THE POWER OF 3... 

WE SHALL SEE, BECAUSE THE STORY IS ONLY AT THE BEGINNING, RIGHT?

Circuit of champions- Winter edition 2013, Special Middle School "Constantin Paunescu"

The teens from Special Middle School "Constantin Paunescu" Iasi, Romania, participated in 5'th of December at the indoors contest "Circuit of champions".
This contest is at it's second edition and for both years it represented the contribution of aces project team at the celebration of school aniversary.
The 18 teams formed by 4 pupils each had to pass 8 challenges and everything went very well. The contributors at the success of the contest contributed the 25 teachers of the school directly involved into the preparation and supervision of the teams and activities but also the six great volunteers that chosed to spend few hours as Orga team of this event. Many thanks to everybody!
And now we present you the winning teams:

First place: Team 13, pupils:  CONDURACHE DAVID, ASANDEI CRISTI, OCNEANU PAULA, MUSTEATA MARIA;  teacher: BURA SIMONA

Second place: Team 18; pupils: CARSTIAN ALIN, CORBAN ANDREI, CONSTANTIN MARIAN, PASCU  IOANA, teacher: PREUTU ALINA

Third place, 3 teams:

 - Team12, pupils: CUTIC MARIA, TUPILUS LUCIAN, LATESCU VIORICA, HARAPU ALIN; teacher GRADINARU  PETRONELA

-Team 17; pupils: FEODOROVICI LUCIAN, FARCAS CARMEN, MAXIM FLORIN, LUPU ANDREI; teacher: CONDREA MARCELA,

-Team 14, pupils:MUNTEANU ANA, SCULEAC MADALINA, GRIGORIU ANDREI, PREPELITA DRAGOS; teacher: NECHIFOR MONICA

Congrats, everybody!

Many thanks to all the volunteers that ensured the assistance at working stations and the documentation of the event: specialist teacher Mihaela Petrescu, Master students in Psychology Andreea, Diana and Anca, tutors of the day Teodora, Gabriela and Alex Tode!