Articles Gator mentors, local students pair up for shared success University of Florida athletes and P.K. Yonge students shot hoops, tossed footballs and raced Friday in an Olympics-style event that is part of the C.A.M.P. Gator program. But the program's real work happens off the playing field, with the matching of collegiate mentors with children in local schools. Its goal is helping the mentors learn leadership skills while also teaching them to young students, said Matthew Ohlson, founder and director of the program.. Read More | Photo Gallery University of Florida Gators Help Combs Magnet Elementary Gators Combs Magnet Elementary Principal Muriel Summers found that her school shared a lot in common with the University of Florida and its CAMP Gator Program. Both are leadership initiatives and the university and school share the GATOR as a mascot. Summers made connections with Dr. Matthew Ohlson to bring the CAMP Gator program to Combs this year. Read More New course helps Gator athletes learn and teach leadership in middle-school mentoring program What do 6-foot-6-inch Florida football lineman Phil Trautwein and sixth-grader Nick Nixon have in common? Gator lineman Phil Trautwein (right) was one of several UF students who mentored middle school students at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School as part of a new course on leadership at the UF College of Education. A lot of mutual admiration and encouragement, and, hopefully, plenty of learning from each other. Read More Success Stories: CAMP Gator's "Tail" of Success CAMP Gator (Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program) is an innovative, service-learning, leadership mentoring program that pairs athletes and non-athlete student leaders from the University of Florida with elementary and middle-school boys and girls from high poverty schools in the Gainesville community. Read More C.A.M.P. – A Service-Learning Project Example C.A.M.P. (Collegiate Athlete Mentoring Program), a three-credit college class, took teacher education out of the classroom and into the real world, as college athletes and other student leaders mentored K-12 students. Read More Spotlight shines on C.A.M.P. Gator mentoring program C.A.M.P. Gator, a joint UF-P.K. Yonge leadership program in which UF student-athletes and other student leaders serve as mentors to PKY middle school students, is garnering some local and national attention on several fronts: UF student mentor Francesca Enea of the No. 1 ranked Lady Gators softball team was honored for her community service work by the Daily Points of Light Institute, a national volunteerism advocacy group... Read More Terron Sanders - Bleeding Orange and Blue By Corey Sobers, UF Communications, www.gatorzone.com New Course Helps Gator Athletes Learn and Teach Leadership in Middle-School Mentoring Program College of Education News, University of Florida Learning and Leading- Off the Field and in the Community Service Learning Success Stories C.A.M.P. Gator: Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program Journal for Civic Commitment

Matthew Ohlson, PhD Director, C.A.M.P. Gator Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program College of Education University of Florida Phone: 352-474-9602 E-mail: mohlson@ufl.edu Site Coordinators Dr. Russell Froman P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School Dory Schofield Williams Elementary School Program Coordinator Emily Rickerson Curriculum Advisors Holly Moses, College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida Anne Sobol, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh