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Be a Catalyst partner.
By partnering with Citizen Schools, your company becomes a Catalyst. Your employees inspire and motivate young people to become lifelong learners, setting them on the path to high school, college, and career success. Volunteering with Citizen Schools is a powerful professional development opportunity for employeesbuilding critical skills and reinforcing their commitment to their profession and company. Together, we can enable struggling public schools to close the opportunity gap.
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HOW IT W ORKS :
A P P RE NTI C E S HI PS
Teams of volunteers inspire groups of middle-school students to discover something together, handson. They learn real-world skills from financial professionals, programmers, biochemists, engineers, researchers, designers, astronomers, doctors, and more. They meet role models who have taken pathways to careers they never knew existed. C o L L E G E T o C A R E E R C o N N E C TIo NS
Students take field trips to colleges and workplaces, meet professional engineers and scientists, and experience special events that make their career trajectories come alive.
ACADEMIC SUPPoRT
Citizen Schools staff lead Math Leagues to reinforce classwork with activities designed to be fun and relevant.
INVEST to raise $10 million by 2015 and mobilize 7,500 volunteers. IMPLEMENT to deliver 2,500 apprenticeships and provide 33,000 hands-on learning experiences to students. EVALUATE & REFINE to prove a new way to educate children.
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