New Album Brings Much Needed Spotlight to Youth

ASCAP, America SCORES and The Great Unknown Release Other Voices, Other Rooms  - CD available now on iTunes and Amazon - and streaming for free this week only at Spinner/AOL Music 

ASCAP, a membership association of songwriters, composers and music publishers, and America SCORES, the nationally acclaimed after-school program, are pleased to announce Other Voices, Other Rooms, a collection of songs by critically-acclaimed Philadelphia-based band TheGreatUnknown and America SCORES students from elementary and middle schools in Washington DC, Cleveland, Milwaukee, New York City and Boston. The songs were written and recorded in fall 2010 when the band headlined the first five-city tour for the ASCAP Songwriter Residency at America SCORES, to which all proceeds from online sales are being donated.

The CD is a brilliant, heartwarming collection of stark and bewitching alt-country songs. Beautiful, raw and touching--all lyrics written by America SCORES students, arranged by & music by The Great Unknown.

Name-your-own-price and see videos here: http://bit.ly/getvoices, or on iTunes: http://bit.ly/ASCAPvoices

Summer Soccer Clinic a success!

Saturday's clinic for SCORES Denver participants included soccer fun, seeing friends from the school year, and some great donated gear. Thank you to organizer, Lee, his family and friends for such generosity!

Spring 2011 Poetry

Beautify

Effort to help the community

Also even just a little help is great

Unique stuff to help the community

Together we could do anything
I help too

Fun projects for beautification

I see awesome teamwork

Come on we can do it

And we just need people to pick up

The fun we'll have doing this together will be no surprise

In the next few weeks we can get a lot done

Our neighborhood needs work

Never stop helping

Jada S.

Brown International Academy

My Community

Bla bla bla that's our friends talking

I see a blue sky with a bright sun

I taste my neighbors enchiladas

I smell the beautiful flowers

I lay down and feel rough grass

Kenia
Munroe Elementary

Where I am From
I am from a world where we all love eachother.
We love our moms our dads
our sisters and our brothers.
Where I'm from we love Chihuahuas
and they are so cute.
Where I'm from we like dark red on walls
and light green on grass.
I broke one rule where I'm from
we are supposed to eat enchiladas but
I love pepperoni pizza with melted cheese"mmmmm".
"I am hungry now."
I love to watch Wizards of Waverly Place

Aylissa
Eagleton Elementary

Spring 2011

FREE Soccer Clinic and Equipment Giveaway July 9th!

All New Photos!!!

Check out some of photos from the 2010-11 SCORES year.

Jamboree is Friday!!!

Friday all 20 Denver SCORES teams will travel to Dick's Sporting Goods Park, home of the Colorado Rapids, for a round robin tournament. All 320 poet-athletes will enjoy an afternoon full of soccer, face painting, and a book giveaway.

Family and Friends are welcome to join the festivities and support their poet-athlete as they play up to 4 games on the turf fields outside of the stadium.

Directions to Dick's Sporting Goods Park 

Munore Starts Spring Service Projects off with Passion!

Thursday morning as the rain clouds parted, a DPS school bus carrying 30 Munroe Elementary school students (ages 8-11) and two teachers arrived in City Park in Downtown Denver to volunteer with the Passion for Parks restoration project.

The students lent their assistance in planting a variety of plants throughout the East end of the Park and learned about the importance of keeping local Parks free of liter and vandalism.

During the spring season SCORES teams will conduct a variety of service learning projects in their communities.

As Denver Parks and Rec employees worked with Munroe students in City Park, over 500 volunteer Starbucks employees and customers spread throughout Denver working on similar restoration projects.

Starbucks and Denver Parks and Rec have been working together since 2007 to continue the Passions for Parks project. This year Starbucks also took the opportunity to present America SCORES Denver with a $30,000 grant.

View pictures from the event.