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FREE YOUTH PROGRAMS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Click here if you wish to perform community service at the Box Car Track in Kunia.
WEEKEND PROGRAM
ABCRI's Free Youth Weekend Program is held year round each weekend for youth ages 9 and up. Younger kids are welcome if
a parent stays with them. Adults are welcome, too, (training available) and can work on projects with the youth.
A Parent of Guardian must come with their kids the first time to meet with an ABCRI staff member and fill out forms. Participating Youth who behave appropriately may then be at the track without
their parent or guardian present.
TO LEARN MORE, read below and then stop by the track during Open Track Hours (click here for hours), or call BC at the ABCRI office (947-3393).
The focus of ABCRI's Weekend Youth Program is giving community service, learning new skills and developing higher self-esteem.
Participating Youth have an opportunity to climb ABCRI's Leadership Ladder, which usually begins with picking up trash around the adjacent Kunia Park & Ride parking lot (community service), then moves into developing new skills by working on box cars and helping with site maintenance. As youth mature in our program they have an opportunity to assist ABCRI's staff as we instruct and supervise families learning safe driving skills on the box car track. Youth who dedicate themselves to moving up our Leadership Ladder often will earn a part-time job as they mature. More than half of ABCRI's staff are students.
At the ABCRI Box Car Facility, Youth Learn:
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Experience the good feeling of giving community service
Learn leadership
Learn communication skills
Increase self-confidence & self-esteem
Learn safe driving skills on the box car track
Learn about the importance of following the Safety Rules of the Road
Learn how box car safe driving compares to automobile safe diving
Have fun through teamwork
May be at the Box Car Track free whenever it is open
Greet & interact with participating families
Learn to monitor participants' use of facility
Become an ABCRI Jr. Instructor
Learn to run box car races
Opportunity to earn a part-time job helping run the facility
RESPECT FOR FACILITY
Keeping classroom-shop and site clean and neat
Helping with site maintenance, such as painting and repair
Helping maintain planted areas and irrigation system
HANDS-ON MECHANICAL SKILLS
Learn proper and safe use of hand tools
Doing weekly maintenance on the box car fleet:
airing tires, lubing wheels, adjusting cables, performing overall safety checks
Helping staff design and build new box cars
LOGISTICS & ORGANIZATION
What items are needed to complete a task and where they are stored
How to take inventories of parts and supplies
How to monitor inventory levels and request supplies prior to being needed
ABCRI YOUTH PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS:
Log all their hours
Encourage others
Are courteous and polite to everyone
Help out without having to be asked
Ask others for help, if needed
Do not tell others what to do
Do not use profanity & control any anger
(Parents) Guide, train and watch over their children
OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD YOUR OWN BOX CAR
Program Participants who log 200 hours are eligible for ABCRI's Box Car Program:
All materials supplied to build box car
Assistance provided to build car
Split (about 50-50) time program duties and box car building
Wheels & steel components supplied once body is ready to paint
Youth "owns" box car as long as youth is active & in good standing in the program
Box car stays at Track
ABCRI keeps box car once youth leaves program or is no longer in good standing
HOLIDAY PROGRAMS (pending funding)
When funding allows, ABCRI will resume offering during summer and major school breaks free concentrated box car programs which run in one to three week cycles. Participating youth join a box car building team in a focused effort to build or complete a box car.
Youth are exposed to most of the learning experiences of available in the Weekend Program (above), plus get some concentrated exposure to learning:
MATH & SCIENCE SKILLS
Physics - Youth learn physics principles and how they apply to box cars and everyday life
Box Car Design - Youth learn how to conceptualize and draw plans incorporating physics,
design esthetics and function
Box Car Construction - Youth learn to layout, measure, cut wood, assemble and finish box
cars
Wood Projects - Youth have an an opportunity to build small wood projects
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