Our annual Winter Celebration is an opportunity for the entire First Graduate® family (staff, students, parents, and volunteers) to get together and celebrate the achievements of the year. This year’s event took place at Everett Middle School (where our current after school programming takes place) and the turnout and energy was unbelievable! We had over 180 […]
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This week First Graduate® was excited to partner with Lyft, a San Francisco-based rideshare company, for a volunteer event to help our middle school students prepare their high school applications and personal statements. Lyft volunteers worked one-on-one with students, giving them personal application advice. Students walked away from the event feeling more confident about the high school
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For the past month our College Prep Team (who work with our high school students) have gone above and beyond the call of duty working into the night with students here in the office to ensure that our seniors have as many college options available to them as possible come spring. In the effort to get
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This year First Graduate® was pleased to partner with LinkedIn to provide two of our students, Derrick and Jose Luis, an amazing social media internship opportunity. After spending a few weeks at the LinkedIn offices in San Francisco learning the ins-and-outs of social media, these students have returned to campus (Derrick is a senior at
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On November 19th, First Graduate® held it’s annual “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” career speed networking event in the offices of AppDynamics in San Francisco. The goals of this high school career exposure event were (1) to practice their public speaking and informational interview skills with professionals, (2) to expand their network of supportive professionals
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SAN FRANCISCO – November 19, 2014 AppDynamics, the application intelligence leader for software-defined businesses, today announced a partnership with First Graduate, a San Francisco-based college success program that helps students finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate from college ready to pursue meaningful careers. As part of First Graduate’s ‘Oh,
Our sophomore high school students recently participated in a workshop with Rauxa employees and First Graduate® volunteers called “Find Your Fit”. During this workshop, students took the first concrete step in selecting the colleges they will be applying to. By working one-on-one with a volunteer, students talked through an activity about their greatest priorities in a
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Earlier this month, the First Graduate® board of directors gathered here at our office to participate in our annual board retreat. It is perhaps the most important meeting of the year for our board because they get to spend an entire day together having expansive conversations about our future. The retreat also provides an invaluable opportunity for board members
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Congratulations to the 25 First Graduate® students who headed off to colleges and universities across the country this fall. We are so proud of all the hard work these students put in throughout the years to make this moment possible. Their college journey may have just begun, but we already can’t wait to see what great things
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Deloitte Career Connections is a year-long mentorship and leadership development opportunity for First Graduate® college students. Each student is paired with a Deloitte consultant for regular 1:1 mentoring sessions. Additionally, students attend career development workshops led by Deloitte mentors. On October 17, we launched the 3rd year of this mentoring program. Mentors and mentees met
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