Early College Awareness: Inspire local Middle School students with your Harvard story

 

SIGN UP TODAY and MAKE "The Case FOR College."
 

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The Harvard Club of Central Florida is committing to support the HAA’s public service mission to promote Early College Awareness locally this Fall. The rising cost of ‘not going to college’ is staggering – and far outweighs the national headlines about rising college costs. One identified challenge is helping students understand early enough that “yes – college matters, and – yes – you can go!”. This program is not about ‘selling Harvard’ … it’s about coupling facts and figures that show early college awareness leads to greater opportunity in life WITH your own personal narrative of how you grew from one of “them” to become “you”. Think of it as your chance to ‘make the curriculum REAL’.
 
Here’s how you can help. Our club is looking for volunteers to speak to local middle schoolers in their classroom as part of National Teach-In Day during American Education Week this November. In Orange County schools that's Wednesday, Nov 14th. In Seminole County Schools that's Tuesday, Nov 13th. You can speak to one class, or a day of classes. You can pair up with another alum or a colleague or family member with a story to share. HCCF will supply you talking points and visual aids that make (as former President Drew Faust termed it) "the case for college"; county teach-in coordinators will help you as well.

 

Over the past four years, 30 local alums spoke in 31 area schools ... and reached over 1400 students!

Right now, for 2018, we're just looking to develop a list of interested HCCF alumni  before we direct you to sign up at individual schools.
 
If you know you want to join our efforts in Orange & Seminole schools please RSVP below. If you can create an opportunity to speak elsewhere in our region's nine-county area or if you are interested in volunteering and have questions before committing, please email Larry Kahn at lmkahn@post.harvard.edu.
 Then save the dates and we will follow up with all of you the week of Nov 1st with more registration information and presentation tips and materials you can use if you choose.

Also you can read more about HAA’s Early College Awareness efforts nationally by clicking here: http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/clubs-sigs/programs/eca. And you can see an example of our efforts on our Facebook group as HCCF member Eddy Dominguez spoke to a group from Mulberry HS in Polk County ... where every student in the audience was from a migrant farm worker family. Help HAA and HCCF make the Case for College! Thank you.

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7:30AM - 2:30AM Wed 15 Nov 2017, Eastern timezone

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Larry Kahn
Gina Carr
  The Healthy Happy Hour
Eddy Dominguez
  Resource Employment Solutions
Ric LaCivita
  RISE Sports Media and Marketing
Kate Byrne
  Harvard Club of Central Florida
Tisome Nugent
  Harvard Club of Central Florida
David Sprinkle
  Veritas Recruiting Group
Tom Schultz
  FreshSurety Corporation
Pieter Kark, MD
  CreateWhatYouPrefer; Business Team Solutionsw
Taimur Ahmed
  ALM ‘17
Catherine Warner
  America in Bloom
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