BIOMA dojo construction fundraiser
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Baltimore Institute of Martial Arts (BIOMA) has teamed up with JHU Aikido to in an effort to expose middle and high school students to college mentors through an after school programs teaching aikido. BIOMA offers instruction in a number of martial arts and hosts seminars and is expanding to offer after school programs. The BIOMA system uses dynamic martial events to help students learn to apply principles of balance, timing, intention/focus, and fitness through controlled and spontaneous martial events (http://biomaonline.org/instruction). JHU Aikido (http://jhuaikido.com) is the Johns Hopkins Aikido club started by a handful of graduate students a number of years ago who invited senior ASU instructors from BIOMA to come and lead Instruction in aikido. Now, due to limitations in the recreation center and the inability to expand their class offerings and programs, the club is looking to partnering with BIOMA to rebuild its headquarters dojo as an alternative location within the Baltimore community to accomodate a good after school program for middle and high school students, and it needs your help.
To offer a proper program the facilities have to be upgraded. Parents want to feel secure that there are proper bathroom facilities and a safe environment. Currently the BIOMA headquarters was transformed from a large brick garage, but its brick is dilapidated and it needs to be replaced. It is only a 25 mat dojo and needs to be 45-50. It has minimal HVAC and limited bathroom facilities. Its mats are old and used. The dojo sits on an acre of land in the city that is fenced and full of green. A fitness trail as well as gardens and lawn space will be fully utilized to offer students more interaction and experience with the outdoors and nature.
BIOMA is located in Mt. Washington in Baltimore, near Mt. Washington village in an ideal location to service three middle schools (Cross Country Middle, Mt. Washington Middle, Wellwood International Middle) and a number of public (Poly, Northwestern, Pikesville) and private (Boys Latin and others) high schools in the area, with one middle school that offers bus service right to the dojo for students. BIOMA, in Partnership with JHU Aikido will expand its programs offered afterschool: home work completion, conflict resolution, skills to combat bullying, and teaching self defense fitness. This will be accomplished by training in Aikido, the martial art of peace! Students will interact with, and be mentored by Hopkins Students. Community service hours will also be offered to high school students for mentoring.
This club is lead by state certified (k-12) teachers with over 40 years of combined teaching experience in academics and martial arts, who believe that exposing young minds to art and culture promote curiosity, tolerance, and exceptance, mixing this with physically challenging activities, developing discipline, will foster the mind to learn and grow, developing productive, creative, and responsible citizens. Aikido has been used in hundreds of thousands of applications to support conflict resolution, self defense, physical fitness, throughout many disciplines from education to law enforcement all over the world.
Help us to make this build a reality!
To offer a proper program the facilities have to be upgraded. Parents want to feel secure that there are proper bathroom facilities and a safe environment. Currently the BIOMA headquarters was transformed from a large brick garage, but its brick is dilapidated and it needs to be replaced. It is only a 25 mat dojo and needs to be 45-50. It has minimal HVAC and limited bathroom facilities. Its mats are old and used. The dojo sits on an acre of land in the city that is fenced and full of green. A fitness trail as well as gardens and lawn space will be fully utilized to offer students more interaction and experience with the outdoors and nature.
BIOMA is located in Mt. Washington in Baltimore, near Mt. Washington village in an ideal location to service three middle schools (Cross Country Middle, Mt. Washington Middle, Wellwood International Middle) and a number of public (Poly, Northwestern, Pikesville) and private (Boys Latin and others) high schools in the area, with one middle school that offers bus service right to the dojo for students. BIOMA, in Partnership with JHU Aikido will expand its programs offered afterschool: home work completion, conflict resolution, skills to combat bullying, and teaching self defense fitness. This will be accomplished by training in Aikido, the martial art of peace! Students will interact with, and be mentored by Hopkins Students. Community service hours will also be offered to high school students for mentoring.
This club is lead by state certified (k-12) teachers with over 40 years of combined teaching experience in academics and martial arts, who believe that exposing young minds to art and culture promote curiosity, tolerance, and exceptance, mixing this with physically challenging activities, developing discipline, will foster the mind to learn and grow, developing productive, creative, and responsible citizens. Aikido has been used in hundreds of thousands of applications to support conflict resolution, self defense, physical fitness, throughout many disciplines from education to law enforcement all over the world.
Help us to make this build a reality!
Organizer
Scott Miller Phoenix
Organizer
Baltimore, MD
