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Elev8 Success Stories
Teaser: A computer class at the Orozco Community Academy has quickly connected multiple generations of the Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago.
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 The Reavis robotics team brought home the "teamwork" award in the Chicago South regional tournament of Illinois’ First LEGO League. The award has special meaning at Reavis, where Elev8 programs have been teaching team building and related skills for two years. >>
Teaser: Elev8 Chicago's 2009 accomplishments were many. All five schools —
Ames, Marquette, Orozco, Reavis and Perspectives – successfully
followed the Elev8 recipe to help students and families grow. They
opened health centers, developed engaging summer and extended-day
programs, and enticed parents into their schools with classes,
workshops and social events.
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In a collaboration with Elev8 partners Creative Alliance and Kariz Kids, students at Tench Tilghman middle school in Baltimore produced their very own CD this fall. Students learned how to create original instrumentals, format and structure songs, operate recording software, as well as the business side of the music industry. >>
Teaser:  Students from the Native American Community Academy, Grant Middle
School and Wilson Middle School worked with their teachers, families,
providers and Elev8 staff to produce Food in Focus, a photography exhibit that appeared in the Rotunda of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque in December 2009. The
show offers a revealing look at how youth view themselves and their cultural identity through what they eat, how the food is prepared, and how this creates a close relationship within their families and communities. >>
Teaser: Some of Elev8’s after-school offerings bring classroom subjects to life. For example, Sisters4Science gives girls the chance to meet women in science-oriented careers. On one Tuesday in November, nine young women from Perspectives sat down and talked with Gladys Nash, a registered nurse and case manager of high-risk obstetrics for the University of Chicago Hospitals.
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In its first three months, Marquette Elementary School’s new health center attracted twice as many clients as expected.
Parents love it,” said Meredith Casey, the nurse practitioner at the
center, which is run by Access Community Health Network. “I think a lot
of people are switching over here because they like the care that
they’ve gotten, and they like the convenience.”
Teaser: Basketball at Wilson Middle School in Albuquerque, NM, is popular, but last year the team was forced to forfeit a number of games because too many of Wilson’s athletes had low grade-point averages.
Teaser: Elev8 Chicago is becoming fully rooted in all five of its middle schools with the opening of on-site community health centers.
Teaser: On April 18, 2009, Elev8 New Mexico students gave an "off the hook" performance of rap and Hip Hop dance as part of the Soul Verse Open Stage at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, NM.
Teaser: Students at Ames Middle School in Chicago received important lessons in how to cool tensions and warm relationships as part of Elev8 Chicago's summer learning programs.
Teaser: Elev8 New Mexico provided a much needed and timely support for families through its financial literacy program.
Teaser: When a teacher at Gadsden Middle School, in New Mexico, noticed that Eddie, a 7th grade student, had been suffering from headaches and anxiety and his grades were dropping, the teacher sent him to the school's new Elev8 health center.
Teaser: On a rainy spring evening at Reavis Elementary in Kenwood, the hallways were lit and bustling. Three seventh-grade girls in cheerleading outfits leapt and waved their pom-poms, shouting, “Hi, welcome to the showcase!”
Teaser: As part of the growing relationship between the Field Museum of Natural History and the Elev8 program, nine parent mentors from Marquette Elementary School in Chicago Lawn recently participated in a special tour of the museum.
Teaser: It’s not as if the 7th-graders at Perspectives-Calumet Middle School are strangers to street violence. But still, the man in front of their class a few weeks ago grabbed their attention in a way their teachers often don’t.
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