Youth Development News

Mechanics-in-Training 2014

The Mechanics in Training have almost finished their summer crash-course in bike mechanics. They’ve learned how to re-cable Gyro brakes and they’ve completely rebuilt at least 2 bikes. They’ve been steadily practicing their teaching skills, and l learning to troubleshoot (on their own!) during Earn-a-Bike. This year we have three students who have never participated in Read more
Welcome our Mechanics-In-Training!

Our Mechanic-In-Training (MIT) Program is a special one here at the Hub. It is one where we get the pleasure of being able to hire a few high school aged youth to work in both our programming and retail spaces. If we say we are about “Youth Development” this is where we put our money Read more
Flash from the very recent past (last month)

Hey everyone, Last month James and I got to go out to Cody High School on the West Side to hang out with the students there during their Literacy Night event. We played B.I.K.E.O. (BINGO with bike parts), passed out permission slips and donated a bike to be raffled off. We have had a student Read more
Winter Bike Give-a-Way Report (full)

Hello Everyone, You may donate a bike or money to the Hub of Detroit and think to yourself, “Where does it all go?” Well I’m here to answer part of that question. If you donate a kid’s bike (20″ or smaller) to us…we give them to kids! For years we have been rebuilding donated bikes Read more
December YEAB 2011

Hey Everyone, So we have been super lucky this year. This is the second year that we have provided Youth Earn-a-Bike year-round and it has been a success. Even now as December is beginning we have kids knocking down our door wanting to wrench on bikes which is a wonderful thing. Last month in November Read more
Detroit Community Schools

Hello everyone, As you noticed from yesterday’s post, there is a holiday this week. That means that our programming office will be closed down the rest of the week. So I may just skip posting a Friday Opinion piece this week to give you a rest from my ramblings. However, I didn’t want to leave Read more
3rd Annual Safe Streets Youth Ride

Wow that was fast! I just wrote an update mentioning the Safe Streets Youth ride being developed and now we have a flier that you can download and share with the rest of the world. We also have an online registration site set up for the ride. If you go and register before Aug. 13th, Read more
Good News and upcoming events

Hey everyone, So we got a new website if you didn’t notice. We’ve been pretty busy at the shop working on bikes and whatnot so we haven’t had much time to advertise it. So I’m taking this lazy Sunday afternoon to catch some of you up on a little bit of good news. We are Read more