Announcements

Gear-Up Youth Leadership Summit- All GEAR UP students who will have completed the 10th, 11th, or 12th grade by the end of the 2009 academic year are encouraged to apply. For more information and to download an application, please click here.

Gear-Up Youth Venture- Seed grants of up to $1,000 to teams of students who have identified a problem in their community and want to create a community-benefiting venture. For more information and to download an application, please click here.

Parent Leadership Award- NCCEP will recognize five GEAR UP parents and/or family leaders who have made a significant contribution to a GEAR UP program. For more information and to download an application, please click here.

International Telementor Program

March 11, 2009

The Entrepreneurship class has associated itself with international telementor program. This program facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide and is recognized as the leader in the field of academic-based mentoring. ITP has assisted youth here at HAS in realizing their dreams of the future-in the present. Our students at HSA have learned how to explore a unique career field specifically, and created a solid career and education plan. This was done by confirmation from top professionals. ITP provides mentoring opportunities for youth as well as professionals who normally would never collaborate in academic environment.

Paying for School

March 1, 2009

Family School Coordinators (FSCs) Liz Fisher and Ingrid Perez organized the Topeka West High School's Scholarship Night. The event was featured in KTKA's evening news. Please click here to read more from KTKA's news report. For Liz and Ingrid's personal commentary about Scholarship Night, click here for their success story.

Telementoring & Summer Program

April 20, 2009

During the Pathways to Success Program 2008-2009 school year in Topeka schools, over 450 students participated in Telementoring. The projects this year was a diverse selection and were created by many new teachers. There were two new literature projects for two novels: Cry, the Beloved Country is about South African Apartied and November's Blues, a young adult urban fiction novel in series by Sharon Draper. A math teacher at Topeka High had her Telementoring students draw a scale-model of a baseball stadium using Algebra. Another teacher at Topeka High had a science class involved in creating a unit lesson plan on certain body system for middle schoolers.
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