While our high school seniors were making their college choices earlier this month, our freshmen, sophomores, and juniors were busy cramming into vans and running up and down the California coast doing college tours. The purpose was to give our students a better idea of what campus life is really like, let them meet and chat with […]
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Exploring the Possibilities is an annual high school career exposure event. The goals of the event were (1) to expose students to a variety of industries (“possibilities”) that are available with a college degree, (2) to help students understand the educational background, skills, and experience necessary to pursue a career, and (3) to catch a
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At this year’s First Graduate® Summer Opportunities Fair, we invited 28 local organizations to set up tables and chat with 100 of our high school students about different summer internships, jobs, and learning opportunities available to them. The fair is the definition of a win-win situation. It’s a great way for our partner organizations to
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A big “thank you” to Manali Patel and all the folks at Funding Circle for hosting a special advisory session with our high school students. Manali reached out to First Graduate® and asked for ways to get more involved with our students (we love it when that happens!) and we were thrilled to link them up with
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“Cutlery! I learned a word for forks, spoons, and knives! Cutlery!” cried Millen, a 9th grader at Lincoln High School, who couldn’t hold back her excitement over a new word shared with her by a volunteer at her monthly advisory meeting. Last week the walls at Kabam reverberated with a tornado of a dozen such inquiring teenage voices as employees at the San
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A HUGE thank you to all the folks at DigitasLBi who worked tirelessly to create this video about First Graduate® and the inspiring students we have the pleasure to work with. Thank you also to Marmoset for donating the music which really ties it all together. It’s an amazing piece of work and we are so proud to show it
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Over the weekend First Graduate® hosted an Hour of Code event that was attended by 15 students and their families. The Hour of Code is a global movement that has reached tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Last year there were more than 32,000 events around the world, including 15 million participants, 10 million
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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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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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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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