NEW BRUNSWICK – One group of kids made cards inscribed with warm wishes for seniors.

Another group filled bags with socks, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap and T-shirts to be distributed to homeless people.

And yet another spent time filling bags with trash and debris collected from a nearby park.

These 160 or so city students who celebrated their last day at the Bobadilla Summer Soccer Academy on Thursday morning won’t have the typical How I Spent My Summer Vacation stories to share when school restarts.

Rather, these kids, 8-15, can talk about the array of community projects in which they participated – ones designed to foster a sense of civic pride and a deeper connection with the city in which they’re growing up.

On the final day of this academy, named for the man who started it in

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