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Extending impact and expanding reach
Take your impact outcome to the next level. Seize the Moment is pleased to offer current Humanities Lab students the opportunity to apply for up to $1,000 for Lab outcomes to enhance their vision, reach wider audiences, and expand public impacts.
Through our mini-grant program, students have produced podcasts and videos, organized public events, built gardens, and more.
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College Essay Workshop
Lab: Avanzando Education Pathways, Fall 2022Type: Event
Team: Adrian Galan, James Porter
The problem we are addressing is the way education resources in Phoenix have been sectioned off so that Maryvale does not have the same access to higher education resources such as college counselors focused on college admission. As students have anecdotally recounted, the counselors at Maryvale high school are more worried about the students to pass high school, and there are too few of them compared to the body of students that needs support getting through all of the bureaucracy of applying to college. We are addressing the problem by directly engaging and working with the students on their essays during the event we are hosting. Our team of students from a diverse range of disciplines is in contact with humanities teachers as well as school faculty at Maryvale High School in order to help the high school students in their college application process not in a way that we presuppose to be helpful, but in a way the students have outwardly expressed to be helpful. By asking the students and faculty, we have already identified college essays as being their biggest concern, so our event will be a workshop centered around how to navigate the college essay writing process. This will facilitate the process for the students and clear up their questions about this step toward college.
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