About Clever Endeavor

A Duke and UNC-affiliated youth mentorship program

Clever Endeavor is a Seven-Saturday mentorship program for 4th and 5th grade
students in the Durham and Chapel Hill area. Our mentorship program is modeled after
the 5 C’s of the Positive Youth Development Model: Caring, Competence, Character,
Connection and Confidence. Competence is further broken down into two Saturdays that
addresses Academic Competence, and second Saturday that addresses Social and
Cognitive Competence. A typical Saturday begins with journal writing in which our
mentees will receive a short and child-friendly prompt that they will write about to
stimulate their thoughts on the chosen Saturday’s C. Then, there will be a logic game
activity to promote team building among our mentees. Our mentors will then complete
breakout sessions with their assigned mentees, in which they will engage in active and
thought-provoking conversations about the Saturday’s C by addressing real-world
scenarios. Breakout sessions will conclude with a game or activity that encompasses the
concepts related to the C. After lunch, the students will come together again for a recap
session with all the mentors. Finally, the students will have an allotted time to work on
their end-of-program project that they will present to their parents during the last week of
the program, their graduation. DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, OUR PROGRAM WILL BE DELIVERED VIRTUALLY THROUGH ZOOM!