Students flooded into Damon City Campus on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday during winter break for some of the best Upward Bound programming we’ve ever seen. On Monday, students wandered through the work of Leonardo DaVinci at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. They peered into early imaginations of inventions like the portable keyboard and the helicopter. After the museum, we watched the Rochester RazorSharks basketball team trounce the Erie Hurricane 160-111 at the Blue Cross arena, a game filled with thunderous dunks and great team basketball.
On Tuesday, students bonded with suburban teenagers from the Browncroft Community Church youth group during Cultural Sharing Day. In a student planned and led workshop, students from the inner city and the suburbs made up handshakes together, discussed the difficulties of high school, and even addressed moments of cultural tension together. At the end of the day, students signed the Unite Rochester pledge together. We plan to continue relationships between the two groups.
On Wednesday, Presenters from HCTYAP (Health Care and Technology Youth Apprenticeship Program) engaged our students in a discussion on the medical field, how to pursue their career dreams, and how they can begin observing and working in math and science fields though their program. The presentation sparked interest in the program and gave students a clearer picture of how to pursue their career dreams.
After the workshop, we flipped, dunked basketballs, played dodgeball, and dived into foam pits, all on trampolines! Our trip to Sky Zone was not only an experience of observing physics in action, but a great time of fun for the students to top off the week’s programming.
Paul Stack
MCC Upward Bound
03/03/2015
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