“Start small,” advised Alumni Toolkit presenters at the San Diego launch. Every K-12 school has a major untapped resource: the alumni. How might schools engage their alums to communicate with students younger than themselves? CREATE hosted an event featuring Alumni Toolkit, a brand-new database and messaging infrastructure allowing schools to reach out to alumni for…
Category: College Preparation
SDAWP, UC San Diego Teaching + Learning Commons Team up to Support College-level Writing Preparation
Professors across the nation cite problems with students’ preparation for college-level writing as central to students’ struggles to attain degrees in a timely manner. So how can supporters help high school students get fully prepared for the writing demands of college? In a new College-Ready Writers Preparation Program, the San Diego Area Writing Project (SDAWP)…
Be Your Story: CREATE Supports SDUSD African-American Achievement Summit
On May 29, hundreds of San Diego Unified School District high school students gathered at San Diego City College for the first annual “Be Your Story!” African-American Achievement Summit. The event was developed to support high school students as they prepare for and transition to post-secondary life. Hosted by San Diego City College, the event…
EAOP/TRIO’s Comienza con un Sueño Celebrates 10 Year Mark
Hands-on science exploration at UC San Diego’s Comienza con un Sueño’s STEM Fair. Comienza con un Sueño (It Begins with a Dream) Family Day celebrated its 10th year of precollege support and inspiration with 1,200 middle and high school students and their families attending the informational conference on March 3 at UC San Diego. The…
Helping to CREATE a Culture of Collaboration for HACU’s Youth Leadership in STEM
CREATE was honored to participate as a community partner at the 2017 Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities Youth Leadership Development Forum STEM Day. Hosted by National University (NU) and the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU), the Youth Leadership in STEM event was designed to be a fun and interactive day of science,…
Honoring Service: CREATE Colleagues Recognized at Annual Awards Ceremony
EAOP Director Rafael Hernandez (center) congratulates Geneva Fitzsimmons and Thomas Gilkison of UC San Diego’s EAOP program. CREATE is honored to celebrate five long-time colleagues and dear friends who have worked tirelessly for decades to bring about greater equity and access to low-income, underserved students in San Diego and Imperial Counties. The honorees were recognized…
UC San Diego HS2TEM Equity Conference Inspires First Generation College-Bound Students
On May 5 at UC San Diego, approximately 100 9th and 10th graders from Morse High School in the San Diego Unified School District, Mar Vista High in the Sweetwater Union High School District, and Calexico High School in the Imperial Valley joined faculty, staff and students from UC San Diego in a “High School…
San Diego U-T: UCSD Recruits Future Tritons at SD High
A crowded gym of excited San Diego High School students were encouraged to follow their college dreams at Wednesday’s Achieve UC event, a University of California initiative to assist and inspire high school students to prepare for and stay on the path to a college education. Please read the San Diego Union-Tribune story about Achieve…
TRiO Talent Search Students Attend UC San Diego Kyoto Symposium
TRiO Talent Search students and staff with Kyoto Symposium keynote speaker Dr. Edward Witten. A group of TRiO Talent Search students from Mount Miguel and El Cajon Valley High Schools spent an exceptional day at UC San Diego on March 18 attending the Kyoto Prize Basic Sciences Presentation at the Kyoto Symposium. Students learned about…
The Envelope Please: TRiO Student Awarded Grand Prize at Digital Video Fest
By Isela Medina, Academic Coordinator for TRiO Talent Search UC San Diego TRiO Talent Search is happy to announce that Paul Lopez, a senior at Monte Vista High School, is the grand prize winner of the 2014 Digital Film Festival from the University of Advancing Technologies (UAT) in Tempe, Arizona. The grand prize is an $88,000 scholarship…
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