
This weeks speaker was 15 year old DeMarko Avant, who is a sophomore at Bunnell High School in Stratford, and dual enrolled in CT State Community College with over 24 college credits earned.
In August 2024, he published his first book titled “The Teenage Boss: How to save, budget, and invest as a teen”.
He is the Vice President and Founder of Youth Money Management, a nonprofit 501 c3 that services the State of Connecticut. Just recently, YMM launched a new activity workbook for project based and collaborative learning to accompany the book.
Youth Money Management aims to empower young people in financial literacy, teaching them how to save, budget and invest in their future with the hope to avoid adult debt accumulation.
His remarkable work is already embedded in schools, juvenile detention centers and community-based youth organizations. For more information regarding programming,
At todays Lunch Meeting we had Helen Yeh, Jeff Davidson and Greg Forrester representing FEMA. Greg presented and he discussed the FEMA efforts in Connecticut after the heave rains and flooding this past August. Below is the breakdown of the FEMA assistance.
Tish Rabe lives in New York City and Mystic, Connecticut and has written or adapted more than 40 Dr. Seuss books since Seuss's death.
She has written over 135 children's books[3] including titles for Sesame Street, Blue's Clues, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Bear in the Big Blue House and Curious George. In 1996 she began writing The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, a new series of non-fiction science books for early readers.
Her books include Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go!, which is meant to be read in utero, and eleven other titles that present science concepts to early readers.
Her book, My Oh My—A Butterfly! was named by the Bank Street College of Education as one of the 40 best books for children in 2007. Her story for Nick Jr. Magazine, 'The Best Dressed Guest,' won the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers.
She has also written scripts for several children's television series including Clifford, Clifford's Puppy Days, I Spy and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures.
As both a songwriter and music producer she has created children's songs that have been broadcast on PBS Kids, Fox, Nickelodeon and HBO Family.
She is a graduate of Ithaca College.
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