Photo Gallery: Burbank Community YMCA gives tours at Luther Burbank Middle School to show off the success of their Learn, Grow, Thrive program

YMCA CEO Mary Cutone introduces guests to guests before a tour at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Zachary Arnold, 12, of Burbank, reads one of his writings using themes on the dry-erase board behind him for the class and tour visitors at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

A tour group goes into a classroom at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

A tour group gathers in the hall to evaluate what they had just seen in a classroom at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Classrooms filled with children were part of the tour at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Woodbury University Vice President Erik Greeny, YMCA Board Member Kelly Nittoli, District Representative for Congressman Adam Schiff Pamela Marcello, Southeast Ventura County YMCA Senior Director Megan Glynn, Southeast Ventura County YMCA CEO Ronnie Stone listen to their tour guide Angela Buck at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Masks, made by using balloons and paper mache, are for children to show the face they show the world, and they wrote their inner feelings inside the masks at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Justin Gutierrez, 13, of Burbank, reads an essay he wrote that extols the virtues of the YMCA Learn, Grow, Thrive program at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Angela Buck, Child Development Center Director, talks about how she had to hire several teachers to be the instructors for the Learn, Grow, Thrive program at Luther Burbank Middle School on Thursday, July 13, 2017. The Burbank Community YMCA, for the last four years, has hosted the Learn, Grow, Thrive program for children offering summer reading and enrichment. The program has teachers, primarily from the Burbank Unified School District, but has grown a lot requiring an outreach to nearby school districts, attracting a lot of teachers.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)