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Later that evening the CityStep Harvard contingent let loose again, but this time minus the braces-wearing, lunch box-toting...
...CityStep members spend the year teaching Cambridge Public School students an original dance piece, which the young Cantabrigians—flanked by their Harvard teachers—perform in an annual show every April...
...many ways CityStep is more like a sports team than a public service program. They don’t just mentor; they bond, fraternize and fete—and they have the whole campus watching them do it. “CityStep is an intense service opportunity, but a structure socially also—for the teachers,” says Michael H. Kalin ’05, one of seven executive directors on force. The organization is divided into “teams” of seven each. Each team works with one classroom of fifth- or sixth-graders...
...main thing is teamwork,” Weidman says. And the team mentality extends outside their teaching duties. In between its two matinees Saturday, the entire CityStep company—six classrooms worth of Cambridge Students and all of the Harvard CitySteppers—let loose on the fields behind the school, eating cake, playing basketball, tossing footballs and just generally hanging...
...certainly wasn’t the first Saturday night they’d partied together. CityStep members rave that the organization has connected them to a close social network. “You spend such an inordinate amount of time with these people, it’s impossible that they wouldn’t become a big part of your social life,” says Executive Director Abigail...