The Buffalo Mountain School in northern Vermont serves students with emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities. After an initial visit to a local skate park, students were instantly hooked on skateboarding. Now, skateboarding is used as incentive, an outlet and a vehicle to change lives in the program. Students are working hard to raise money toward building an indoor mini halfpipe at the school. The Elemental Awareness Foundation has donated skateboards to help this school get the program off the ground. For more information about the program click here.

On Friday Dec. 2nd, Element and Elemental Awareness teamed up with the WLCAC in Watts, CA for a day of art and skateboarding. Element Advocates and artists Mike Kershnar and Todd Francis were there to help the kids get their creative juices flowing. Element team riders Nyjah Huston, Mark Appleyard and Ray Barbee were there to skate with kids at the recently build skatepark at the community center. In the end, more than 60 kids got to take home skateboards that they had painted. Special thanks goes out to the WLCAC, Create-A-Skate, Vitamin Water and Kind Snacks for helping make this event great.

This past summer, the Elemental Awareness Foundation sent 35 kids up to Element YMCA Skate Camp for a week in the woods.  While there, they got to skate and learn about the environment through the Elemental Awareness wilderness education program.  “EA” is committed to promoting environmental stewardship and social consciousness through their programs.  Camp enrollment is now open for the summer of 2012.  Click here for more details about how you can sign up for camp.  To see photos from camp, click here.

Elemental Awareness Foundation teamed up with a Los Angeles based Non-profit to provide shoes, skateboards and other goods to Orphans in Haiti.  The group made the journey to Haiti to make sure this orphanage had the basic needs of clean water, clothing and food.  EAF saw this as a good opportunity to help out the kids with some brand new skateboards and shoes so they can keep doing what they love.  Click here to see more photos.

“Every dream should start with a passion.” That was the message that Element representatives Todd Larson and Todd Francis left with TWLC students in early November. Larson and Francis came as guest speakers as part of TWLC’s Career Exploration Program, wowing students with inspiring stories about their experiences working at Element.  Click Here to read full article.