The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy celebrates the successes of 2022 and looks forward to continued success in 2023.
On Saturday, Dec. 10, the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy hosted approximately 70 high school scholars on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s campus for the program’s final Saturday Program of 2022.
As a part of the resources provided to students in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, a morning of college planning workshops is held monthly during the school year. Scholars attended these workshops in September, October, November and December, and will resume with four more Saturday Programs each month starting in January 2023.
During these workshops scholars are exposed to a college-planning curriculum which has been intentionally designed to support scholars as college-bound sophomores, juniors or seniors. Quarterly, concurrent family workshops are held for the family members of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy. The purpose of the family workshops is to support family members as they walk alongside their scholars on the path to college.
The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy is now in its 16th year of promoting college access and success with local Alamance County students and families. All scholars in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy will be in the first generation of their family to attend college and/or face a significant financial barrier to college. The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy has been highly successful. To date, 100% of the students who have completed the “College Access” phase (high school phase) of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy have been accepted to college.
Following the high school phase of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, scholars enter the second phase of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy programming which is the “Transitions to College” phase. Once scholars enroll in college, they are in the third and final phase of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy known as the “College Success Phase.”
The high school scholars who graduated from local Alamance County Schools in May 2022 earned a combined total of $1,498,995 in scholarships and grants. These scholars have enrolled in some of the nation’s top universities. Four of the students attend ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ as Odyssey Scholars. Currently 100% of our college-age scholars are on track to graduate and many scholars have proceeded to graduate school. There are now ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy scholars who are doctors, lawyers, teachers and higher education professionals.
In addition to monthly Saturday Programs during the academic year, scholars in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy receive near-peer mentors who are ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students, and have access to free counseling, tutoring and SAT prep. For three summers while in high school, scholars attend a three-week residential program during the month of June. The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy is a nonprofit program and operates based on the generosity of its amazing donors. Currently, the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy is accepting applications for the 17th cohort of scholars, the Sigma Class. Any Alamance County family with a current ninth grader in the household is welcome to apply.