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DATE: May 1, 2025
Upcoming: 4th Annual Bryan’s Ride
Bryan’s ride this year will take off from the Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast Maine and end at the Ames School at 165 New England Road in Searsmont.
Date: July 19, 2025. Kickstands Up 10 AM
Registration at Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast at 9 AM
Cost to ride: $5 a wheel / Donations will be accepted
Raffle for prizes will be $1 a ticket or $5 for 6 Tickets
50/50 raffle will be held on the day of the event.
T-shirts and bracelets will be available for purchase at the Troy Howard Middle School and at the Challenger Center after the ride.
Food and drinks (cost is by donation):
Food and drinks (non-alcoholic only LOL) will be available at the Challenger Center and everyone is welcome to tour the facility to learn more about where the money you help raised goes.
There will be games and fun, including a bounce house and plenty of room for the kiddos! Please join us with your family whether you ride or not to celebrate Bryan! <3
Bathrooms will be available at both locations and A/C to get out of the heat.
DATE: November 1, 2024
2024 $7,500 Presentation to Challenger Learning Center of Maine
Today we donated the proceeds from 3rd Annual Bryan’s Ride to the Challenger Learning Center of Maine at an all-school assembly at the Troy Howard Middle School. Thank you so much to THMS Principal Alta Seekins, Admin. Asst. Carrie Robinson and all of the THMS staff for accommodating us to share this wonderful opportunity for children to experience what it is like to be an astronaut.
There are 32 spots for campers over each summer at the Challenger Center Astronaut Camp, and 15 of those spots were full scholarships this year from Totman Strong! We are so excited to announce that the 2024 Bryan’s Ride raised $7,500, which is $1,000 over last year’s donation, which means that 17 children will receive FULL SCHOLARSHIPS to this amazing program for next summer!
After the assembly, we had several students come up to us, clearly moved and some a bit teary-eyed, telling us they are very interested in the program and attending the camp.
Each student that receives a scholarship donates a book to the Bryan Totman Memorial Library section in the Ames School Library in Searsmont, where Bryan attended school. Scholarship recipients donated books to the growing library in Bryan’s honor and wrote heartfelt thank you notes, which are incredibly touching and make us realize the true impact of what we are doing.
Our hearts are full, and Bryan’s legacy lives on, offering opportunities to children, encouraging them to reach for the stars and accomplish anything they set their heart and mind on. I know he is proud of all of us and his community for making it all possible.
There is no way that we could do this without the help of this amazing community, the volunteers, donors, sponsors and all of you who attend, spread the word and support in so many additional ways.
If your child or a child you know is interested in one of the scholarships, the age group for the scholarships is entering 5th grade through 8th. Scholarship nominations generally open around January, so we will post the link as soon as we know it’s open. Children are nominated by a teacher or staff member, so if your child is interested in being nominated, let their teacher know.
THANK YOU ALL!!
DATE: May 1, 2024
Upcoming: 3rd Annual Bryan’s Ride
Bryan’s ride this year will take off from the Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast Maine and end at the Challenger Space Center in Bangor.
Date: July 27, 2024. Kickstands Up 10 AM
Registration at Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast at 9 AM
Cost to ride: $5 a wheel / Donations will be accepted
Raffle for prizes will be $1 a ticket or $5 for 6 Tickets
50/50 raffle will be held on the day of the event.
T-shirts and bracelets will be available for purchase at the Troy Howard Middle School and at the Challenger Center after the ride.
Food and drinks (cost is by donation):
Food and drinks (non-alcoholic LOL) will be available at the Challenger Center and everyone is welcome to tour the facility to learn more about where the money you help raised goes.
Bathrooms will be available and A/C to get out of the heat.
October 20, 2023
Totman Strong, Inc. Donates $6,500 to the Challenger Learning Center of Maine
Today we all had the honor of delivering the scholarship money that you all helped us raise to Sarah and Kirsten of Challenger Learning Center of Maine at the Ames Elementary School in Searsmont.
We raised $6,500, which is equivalent to 15 scholarships for next summer!
Kirsten and Sarah also delivered several books to Kristen Byrer, Librarian, that were donated to the special section dedicated in Bryan’s memory of the Ames School library, by the recipients of last year’s scholarship awards, each with a special message from the camper.
It has been an exciting day, which we could not have accomplished without ALL of you and the support of the entire community.
Bryan would be incredibly proud of all of us.
Thank you all so very much.