This weekend I spent working on edits and rewrites of parts of the brochure to be used to publicize and promote this scholarship project. As I was working on it, I was thinking about who this is really about. It's a little about my father, but more importantly it's about the students that this might benefit. I believe my dad would appreciate that aspect of this more than anything. We live in an area where college hasn't been an option for so many of our high school graduates. The need to work, the lack of funds, or just the lack of a family that has a college going culture. Many of the kids that this could help might be the very first in their family to attend college.
My last job was as the Director of GEAR UP with Southwestern Community College, a federally funded college access and awareness program. I worked with 4 school systems to develop and implement programs and activities that address these same issues. We started working with middle school students to envision and plan what they wanted to do in life. We introduced programs such as the First Lego Robotics that built an interest in math and engineering skills through building Lego Robots that can accomplish a series of competitive tasks. Check out their website: http://firstlegoleague.org/community/HomePage.aspx
It was amazing to watch these kids from all kinds of backgrounds get excited and excel with this project. My hope is that through these kinds of projects, these kids will become inspired to pursue a career in one of these areas.
The same hope runs through my mind on this project. Maybe, just maybe, this project will allow some student to pursue that excitement and go on to a successful college and career.
Here's the brochure so check it out.
paddling for a purpose.pdf
It's in PDF format which you can open using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Monday, September 8, 2008
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