Closing the racial equity gap — that's the main mission of the Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville's Racial Equity Fund.
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“We live in this area and we are trying to keep it beautiful, keep it pretty. It’s just something to give back to our community. Being so young, I can’t exactly do much, but I’m doing as best as I can,” Norvel said.
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Ms. Emery and two senior students, Janae and Jerneisha were interviewed about the 2020 STEM Summer Institute and what this program means to them. This is our first time offering our ACT and college prep program 100% virtually—hear from them how that is going.
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This year, the FlexFactor competition is being held at The CAP and GOWN Project’s STEM Summer Institute in Huntsville. Over the next 6 weeks, students who were selected to participate in the program will be separated into small teams and asked to identify a real-world problem. Next, they will learn more about Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) to conceptualize a hardware device to address the problem, identify a target market for the product, and engage in customer discovery research.
“Calhoun, FlexFactor, Boeing and The CAP and GOWN Project all have similar missions, and that is to provide transformative opportunities that inspire students to consider a STEM pathway,” commented Ashley Robison, Calhoun’s Recruitment Coordinator.
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Jenna Rae and the WAFF 48 team report on four of our CAP & GOWN Project seniors who will be going tuition free to Berea College in the fall. We celebrate these, and all the class of 2020’s accomplishments and love hearing why they think future students should participate in CAP & GOWN.
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The 2019 STEM Summer Institute extended the deadline so we could, for the first time, include students from EVERY Huntsville City High School.
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CAP and GOWN scholars’ favorite meteorologist came to the STEM Summer Institute and taught us why it’s so hot. Or, at least showed us how to determine how long this heat wave will last!
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E-TV stopped by the 2017 STEM Summer Institute to hear from the students about the program. Check out these students' hard work!
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Students involved in the CAP and GOWN Project aren't taking a vacation from pursuing their dreams, they're still hitting the books.
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Our 2016 STEM Summer Institute had a great day at the arsenal learning about the Shadow jet.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Some Huntsville students are getting a life-changing opportunity this summer to learn about STEM, visit colleges and prep for the ACT, thanks to The Cap and Gown Project.
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM, for short) are vital to our future. The awesome team at Digium was excited to offer our 2016 STEM scholars the opportunity to experience the local STEM career field.
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From Coaching to College Tours, Chris Scribner Finds a Way to Give Back
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This teacher won't let zip codes determine outcomes.
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A project in two Huntsville City Schools is improving students' desires to go to college. Through the Cap & Gown Project, kids have pushed their boundaries and raised their potential.
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Chris Scribner felt a debt to his teachers for pulling him out of a personal abyss, so he joined Teach For America. Read what he's done for his high school students in Alabama to earn Teacher of the Year honors in his city.
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The eight students from J.O. Johnson and New Century Technology high schools who toured Oxford University during spring break were almost the same number of students from Johnson who declared for college the past two years.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Instead of being lazy or going to the beach for spring break, eight students from Huntsville City Schools had the opportunity of a lifetime. They traveled to Europe for college tours.
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A group of local teenagers ventured to Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Pennsylvania to explore where they could start their college careers.
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