Summer Break Programming 

Mental health! Podcast! You can chime in!

Several Club members will be kicking off the third season of the “Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action” podcast series by taking part in a live Twitter Spaces chat about mental health. Club members will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center physicians, researchers and staff to talk about the ways mental health impacts individuals, families and communities in the July 20 chat, hosted by @VUMC_Insights on Twitter.
 
Mental and physical well-being are interconnected, but stigmas and stereotypes persist when people talk about or try to get mental health treatment, even for common disorders such as depression or anxiety. 
 
The Twitter Spaces chat is the first real-time component of the award-winning DNA podcast series, which explores what is changing in the next generation of medicine, science and our communities. The chat will be edited and released as a mini-episode in August to jumpstart a month-long exploration into mental health with four DNA podcast episodes in September.

To listen to the conversation, log onto Twitter using the mobile app on July 20 at 10:30 a.m., follow @vumc_insights, and then join the Spaces conversation at the top of the app. You can listen on a desktop or laptop by using this link to access the conversation. Use the link to set a reminder and add the conversation to your calendar!

This week is Sports Week, so we are highlighting our local Nashville sporting teams and their current and upcoming seasons this week! Nashville is a great sports city, with several exciting teams to watch and follow.

Nashville Soccer Club, the city's MLS team, currently stands in 3rd place in the Western Conference with less than half the season left to play. There are still 10 games left at home, with five in the next five weeks, so check out tickets HERE to support the team!

The Tennessee Titans, Nashville's NFL team, was the number one seed in the AFC this past year, and are currently only four weeks away from their first preseason game of the year.

The Nashville Predators, the city's NHL team, is just under three months away from kicking off another exciting season of hockey at Bridgestone Arena.

We have an initiative and a mission to reach One Million Hours of Code in our community by 2026, and we're making progress towards our 2022 initiative with over 1500 hours coded so far! Help us reach our goal of immersing our community's youth in coding curriculum by registering for our Code Academy, completing MyFuture tasks, and logging coding hours on the Million Hours Portal!

Week Five of Code Academy was a success - last week we served 232 students across our programs, and we would love to have even more join throughout the summer! 

Reminder that our incentive program is still in effect as we strive to reach our goal of 100 students! For every student that registers as an invitation from you, your name will be placed in a drawing for a $100 gas card - have them include your or your child's name and that you referred them in their comment on SignUp Genius!