CedarBridge Academy travelled to Delaware to visit their sister club from May 13-20, 2007.

The school’s sister club is called ‘Wow’ Nike Club of Delaware.

Students went for a teen forum — “No More Mean Gyrls—..Hello”.

The forum was held at Delaware State University. The trip allowed the girls to become closer by allowing them to break social and emotional barriers.

The young ladies do recommend other teenagers of CedarBridge Academy to join Teen Girls in Focus — T-Trustworthy, G-Giving, I-Independent F-females of tomorrow — because it is a way of expressing yourself freely, developing a sisterhood and own identity, building self-confidence, receiving advice from the advisors of the group who consist of teachers.

The coordinator for trip was Alicia Zuill and also attending were advisors Donna Edwards, Nadia Tuckett and Leone Samuels.

The club consists of 25 young ladies and trips are rotated so next year in May the Nike Club of Delaware will be visiting Bermuda where a teen forum for all female teenagers in Bermuda and parents will be held.

On the Delaware trip a True Colours Character Assessment workshop was carried out by Oradelle Sewell, a Bermudian residing in Delaware and coordinator of the Delaware Girls Club.

Another workshop was on Avoiding Violence and was carried out by Kim Reeves a law enforcement officer.

Kamillah Lewis conducted the workshop Responsible Choices and Healthy Relationships Imagine Me was led by Judy Nelson.

On May 15 panel discussions on teen girls’ issues, teen resources, getting to know your sisters in the teen clubs was help.

Girls also broke into groups to prepare their skits on Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving. Some of the skits focused on abuse, drugs, peer pressure, families showing favouritism between daughters.

On May 16 the students visited the John Dickinson Plantation.

“We try to visit a lot of historical places when we travel to Delaware to learn their history of different places,” said Ms Zuill. “They young ladies found it very rewarding to learn more about slavery and to be able to visit one of the wealthiest slave owner’s plantation. A couple of the students were learning about the plantation in Social Studies class. We had the opportunity to go in one of the original huts, garden, make beat bread... and we covered all the rooms and history of the manor which had everything from the original days.”