Looking back on the past week, we’re feeling especially grateful for shade and water! Thanks to those good things and a dedicated crew of staff and volunteers, the heat didn’t keep us from running Learn-To-Ride, Earn-A-Computer and Earn-A-Bike class sessions in locations ranging from U. City to Soulard to Granite City. We also had 26 riders of all ages join our 11-mile alumni adventure Saturday in Edwardsville, where we stopped at the downtown criterium event partway through the event.

We’ve got more alumni adventures in the works along with more fall class listings coming soon, so stay tuned!

We’re rounding out the week enjoying this amazing weather! Thumbs up to milder temps, lots of great riding practice, great conversations and lessons, and most of all to all of our amazing students this week, including this afternoon’s crew of Earn-A-Computer graduates! Pictured standing proudly with their monitors, towers, keyboards, flash drives and related equipment, they are the 46th group of BWorks students to graduate from one of our free, multi-week education programs this calendar year.

One hundred and two #STL-area kids joined us over the past week for a BWorks class! Adventures ranged from earning computers at our weeklong Divoll library camp with St. Louis Public Library, to power pedaling from Firm Foundation Tutoring to Tower Grove Park and back, to six different cohorts at our BWorks headquarters in Soulard, to neighborhood rides in Lake Saint Louis and Granite City. We capped off the final class of the week at Mr. Twist! Special thanks to Six Mile Regional Library District and the Agency for Community Transit for partnering with us on our first-ever Granite City pilot!