Role models play an important part in determining the paths our youth go down. Carnegie’s report (A Matter of Time: Risk and Opportunity in the Nonschool Hours, 1992) states that: […]
Category: Community Involvement
Great job to San Antonio 8th Graders for their research on medication disposal
I was watching the WOAI news yesterday and was happy to hear about students at the N.E.I.S.D.’s STEM Academy “beating out thousands of teams across Texas” with their research on […]
Lemonade Day
The kids from Walzem Elementary set up a Lemonade stand at Rackspace today as part of the “Lemonade Day” program. I had never heard of Lemonade Day until today and […]
Talking to AVID Students
I had the opportunity to speak to students at Brennan High School last week. My uncle, a teacher of 20 years, teaches students that are part of the AVID program. […]
Teaching students the basics of Entrepreneurship through Junior Achievement
I am a Junior Achievement (JA) volunteer and I started this semester’s program 3 weeks ago. JA Worldwide is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, […]