Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee is thrilled to announce its 2022 College & Career Fair, presented by Arconic, will be on Thursday, April 28, at the Tennessee Amphitheater at World's Fair Park. This year’s event theme is Be Inspired!, encouraging all Littles to reach their biggest potential. All middle school and high school students, recent graduates, mentors, and guardians are encouraged to attend.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee welcomes you to our inaugural event, The Big Night Out, presented by FirstBank. Join us to celebrate the driving force to accomplishing our mission, mentors. Our Bigs and mentors throughout East Tennessee make a large impact in our community and create opportunities for Tennesseans, especially our youth. The evening will feature a live auction, dinner, and awards. BBBS-ETN will be honoring new members to the BBBS-ETN Hall of Fame and presenting the first-ever East Tennessee Mentor of the Year award! In addition to our newest award, leading up to the event anyone has the opportunity to bid on specially curated packages in a virtual auction featuring gift packages as well as one-on-one mentoring hours with leaders in East Tennessee. We hope you will join us in celebrating the mission, people, and youth that drive Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee.
We will be going to Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to see the famous synchronous fireflies. We will have options to carpool to this event. Please rsvp for more details. For natural history information about the fireflies see the Park website: https://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/fireflies.htm
Theme: Ice cream, games and BINGO! Let us know if there's a specific flavor you would like to make.
The Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission Parade will step off at 10:00am at Chilhowee Park and conclude at Dr. Walter E. Hardy Park for a special Beck Juneteenth Memorial Tribute service. Join our BBBS group as we march together.
Join us at Putt-Putt Fun Center in Kingsport for an afternoon of unlimited putt-putt golf!
Saturday, July 9th. This hike will be suitable for all ages and levels, from beginners to advanced. We're going to ditch the crowds and traffic and head out for a hike in the urban wilderness! This hike will be led by a former Big Brother and last about 3 hours. Spots are very limited!
30 tickets available!
Theme: Crafts and cookies!
Picnic with swimming, canoeing, hiking and fishing on the banks of Melton Hill Reservoir.
This hike will be led by the first Big Brother in Bristol, National Teachers Hall of Fame inductee, and retired elementary science teacher Mr. Ben Talley! We will meet at 9:30 am. Each Little will receive a free t-shirt, and there will also be a $50 raffle drawing for all matches who attend.