MV Chamber Music Society used the last of its funds in the fall of 2018 yet we have continued to expand our educational offerings for island students. The Artist-in-Residence program continues annually. Cellist, Andres Vera, continues to connect us with musicians and provide lessons and performances for island schools, most recently in October 2019. In January 2019 we launched Project Cello, bringing a professional cellist/instructor to the island providing the first private lessons to students. The first half year MVCMS provided the sessions free of cost, a benefit we believed would gather support and buy in from participating families. Since fall 2019 we have two visits per month. MVCMS provides free lessons for new cello students in school while sharing costs with families for after school lessons. Securing additional funding would allow offering lessons every week beginning in the fall of 2020. In September 2019 we partnered with Rebecca Laird, Oak Bluffs school strings teacher, to provide violins for every second grader in the Oak Bluffs school to take violin lessons weekly. This program is on-going. We encourage other schools to consider this option for introducing string playing. Finally, with the Elementary Strings Program, we are sponsoring an intensive visitation/residency, offering small group ensemble lessons to students over one day and a concert with students and professional musicians. The first program took place in December, at least one more planned for this school year. This totals three new programs introduced since MVYouth funding. We are so thankful.