July 7, 2023
School might be out for the summer, but there’s still great things happening every day at City Schools!
You may think not a lot happens during the summer break at City Schools, but here are some of the many great things happening this week:
- Congratulations to Rondell Wyatt, Samuel Coleridge Taylor student, for winning The Thurgood Marshall Art Contest at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Click here to congratulate him on Twitter!
- Sports teams, like Patterson’s football team, are holding practices and trainings.
- Over 70 parents and guardians attended Armistead Garden’s first summer parent workshop. Click here to see photos of them reading with their children on Twitter.
- Thanks to the Baltimore Urban Gardening Program, students in the Summer Bridge Program at Crossroads are learning about bee colonies, gardening, and ecosystems - in addition to learning about math and language arts.
- Our partner, Building Steps, started their Summer Experience program that helps City Schools high schoolers prepare for college and careers. Follow them on Instagram to see more of their STEM programming, mentoring, and more!
- Several of our schools have gardens for students to learn in. Park Heights showed off some of its recent crops on Facebook.
- Some of the P-TECH at Carver students started five-week paid internships with IBM. Click here to follow Carver’s Facebook page.
- Twenty students from Forest Park participated in a summer trip following the Great Migration. Toward the end of their trip, the students served at Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City, making spaghetti for families with children in intensive care units. See more from their trip on Instagram.
- Have you listened to Off the Grid? In this bi-weekly podcast series, the City Schools Student Media Team discusses issues affecting students in Baltimore City. Spend the summer catching up - start with episode one now!
