Workshops, Day of Service & Dear America
Location: UMD Campus & Various Project Sites
TMS Attire: Casual (Pat’s Run Shirt & TMS Shirt)
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6:30 – 7:30 AM: PT with Team Red, White & Blue
University of Maryland Campus
7:00 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast
South Campus Dining Hall
8:30 – 9:30 AM: Community Blueprint Network
The Atrium, Stamp Student Union
- How to collectively address the eight critical issue areas affecting veterans, active military and military families: behavioral health, education, employment, family strength, financial-legal services, housing and homelessness, reintegration and volunteering leading to community change.
- Panelists: Colonel (Ret.) David Sutherland, Tricia Thompson (Points of Light), Barbara Van Dahlen (Give an Hour), Moderator – Marie Tillman
- Last 10 minutes for connecting with speakers.
9:45 – 11:15 AM: Veteran Entrepreneurship Panel or Career Marketing 201
The Atrium and Prince George’s Room, Stamp Student Union
- Veteran Entrepreneurship Panel
- How to take skills form the field and apply them to your own endeavors, as well as challenges and rewards to expect as an emerging entrepreneur.
- Panelists: Anthony Allman (POS REP), Dawn Halfaker (Halfaker & Associates), Seth Lynn (Veterans Campaign), Jake Wood (Team Rubicon), Moderator – Tillman Military Scholar Adam Potter (Stability Horizon)
- Last 15 minutes for connecting with speakers.
- Career Marketing 201 with Cage Talent
- Learn the advanced-levels skills of creating your “story” and inserting it into any interview you have—for grad school or a job.
- Learn to blend your story into a resume that hiring managers and recruiters will read—and that will inspire them to contact you.
- Presenter: Jack Cage
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Leadership Discussion with Tom Mendoza
The Atrium, Stamp Student Union
- Lunch to be provided at start of program.
1:00 PM: Depart for Day of Service
Anne Arundel Hall
1:30/2:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Day of Service
- Project 1: Habitat for Humanity ReStore project (Alexandria, VA)
- Project 2: Vinson Hall – community build with older generation of veterans (McLean, VA)
- Day of Service kick-off with Marie Tillman.
- Project 3: Horses for Heroes (at Maryland Therapeutic Riding) – build sensory trail (Crownsville, MD)
- Project 4: Operation Oliver with The 6th Branch – refurbish playground (Baltimore, MD)
- Project 5: DC Central Kitchen – prep and serve supper (Washington, D.C.)
6:00 PM: Return to University of Maryland
7:00 – 9:00 PM: Dear America, the Voice of Veterans
Basement, Anne Arundel Hall
- Exploring the values of the American military veteran through the medium of photography. Partnering with Dear World creator Robert X Fogarty, the Pat Tillman Foundation will use the voices (photos) of Tillman Military Scholars to bridge the military-civilian divide.
- Dinner and other activities to be included.
