On the morning of Wednesday, April 30th, 150 volunteers from Target and 50 from the Bryn Mawr community "Made Noise in the Library" at Bryn Mawr Elementary School in Minneapolis!

Volunteers organize donated books in the Bryn Mawr Media Center

Though the project required weeks of planning and design work by the Hands On Twin Cities staff, talented Team Members at Target, and the dedicated staff at Bryn Mawr, the volunteers needed just two and a half hours to give the school a major make over.

Volunteers built and installed furniture in reading nooks and common spaces, painted murals, transformed the media center's performance space into a magical treehouse, catalogued new, donated books, re-organized old ones, planted trees and built mosaic benches in the courtyard, and worked with students on reading-related projects and making poetry stones.

Target Team Members assembling mosaic benches

As always, it is wonderful to see the amount of work that motivated volunteers can accomplish in a single day, let alone a single morning. Fantastic service projects need fantastic partners, and Target Corporation and Bryn Mawr Elementary School had the dedication, passion, and motivation to make some pretty big dreams a reality.