The MAAX High School Transition Project
Yonkers, NY GEAR UP Students Visit Yale!!
Summer 2007 Freshman Transition Project
The MAAX High School Transition Project
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The MAAX program has been extended to high school students! The program began in February 2008 at Harding High School in Bridgeport, CT. The MAAX High School Transition Project (HSTP) is offered to 9th graders. Click here for an information sheet about the HSTP.
Walk-A-Thon
On May 30, 2008 (the last day of the High School Transition Project) the 9th grade students at Harding High School held a Walk-a-Thon to raise money for their senior year activities. Students paid $2 to participate and signed up to walk four laps (one mile) around the school track. The Walk-a-Thon was the idea of the 9th graders in their advisory classes, and it was planned by the students and advisors of HSTP.
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Yonkers, NY GEAR UP Students visit Yale!!
On March 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12th students in the 9th grade from six different Yonkers High Schools visited Yale University for a tour. They also attended a workshop with some of the staff here at The Consultation Center to engage them in thinking about the college process. During that time, they also shared what they've done through GEAR UP and we shared what kinds of activities GEAR UP students in Connecticut have experienced. Below are pictures of each group.
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Summer Program 2007
Students in New Haven who were about to enter their Freshman Year participated in a GEAR UP/MAAX Summer Program from July 5 - August 3, 2007. Classes were held at Hill Regional Career Magnet School and included such classes as Robotics, Inventions and English. Students read Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God in their English class, then got to see the film. There was also a college and career fair held at Career High School during the program.
In addition, students spent one day per week at Yale University rotating among three activities: a Yale Campus tour, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and tours of the Yale Univesity Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. Their activities at the Peabody include learning about DNA and then making a necklace to hold their own DNA, a treasure hunt around the museum, and making "lava lamps" using vegetable oil, food coloring, water and the secret ingredient: Alka Seltzer! At the Art Museums the students got to see various works of art from cultures around the world and throughout history. They also got to learn about perspective taking by learning the stories behind paintings and trying to predict what each character might do next. On the Yale tour, students also got to tour City Hall; the Yale Campus; learn African drumming; and visit the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library which holds a large collection of Zora Neale Hurston's work, including an original, handwritten manuscript of Their Eyes Were Watching God and personal correspondences with people such as Langston Hughes.
Students also toured Quinnipiac University, where they had the opportunity to meet in small groups with QU students to learn about what college life is actually like. They participated in a presentation by the Admissions Staff at QU and got to eat lunch in the cafeteria with the college students. The Interactive Educational Theater Group came to QU to do a presentation for the students about issues they are likely to face when transitioning to high school, as well as how to avoid risky behaviors.
Students went on field trips each Friday, including the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, the USS Nautilus Musuem and the Museum of Science in Boston. On the last day of the program, the field trip was to Lake Compounce Amusement Park.
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