OVERVIEW

Kickstart! offers girls in 7th and 8th grade the opportunity to get a jump start on their culinary and home arts skills. The program is a hands-on, skill-building experience including formation in service, faith and friendship. There are six sessions and each one builds on the one before.

Participants develop the practical, intellectual and moral foundation they need to be women of character, including:

• Self-knowledge

• Order and an eye for detail

• Ability to work in a team

• Importance of work well done

• Strong, lasting friendships

• Philosophical ideas that promote the dignity of the human person

• Meaning of work of the home and the role of women in society

• Fortitude to persevere in difficult tasks

• Discovery of the relation between doing everyday tasks well and living a happy life