Student Profiles
Excel to Excellence 12-pack - GREAT JOB!
In the middle of the summer a group of 30 students signed up for "Excel to Excellence", a four-week back-to-school readiness workshop. The reward for completion was to be an overnight trip to Silverwood Resort.
Only 12 students completed the four week project, making a commitment to read and engage in critical thinking every day, five days a week for four weeks while their peers played dodge ball, monopoly, ping pong and basketball.
More important than any factoid that they learned in that month was the victory they enjoyed after setting a goal and achieving it.
This was the sole purpose of the project - to learn to commit to and accomplish a goal even when it meant choosing to postpone other diversions in the short term.
We couldn't be prouder of the 12-pack from the summer of 2008 - and we would like to introduce them to you now.
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