Crossland Re-Entry:   
·         Participating in a year of Jr. ROTC at Crossland High School sparked this student's interest in joining the Marines.  Hardworking and committed, he was one of only 11 students on the drill team chosen for the competition in Florida.   Following through on his interest, the student passed all requirements, including the physical, aptitude and achievement test, background check, and interview. The recruiting officer said that the student was the only one from Crossland High School selected for the Marines.  He begins basic training immediately following graduation.
 
Edgewood:
·         Student was accepted to the Rock Creek Foundation, the vocational program of the Affiliated Sante Group.  He will continue to focus on job skills by participating on a work crew.
 
·         Student will study culinary arts and train for work in the hospitality industry through a program at a local community college.
 
·         Student  is enrolled at Prince George's Community College and another will attend Montgomery College where she will take courses in preparation for a nursing career.
 
Anne Arundel:
·         Student received a scholarship from Lincoln Tech to attend the Culinary Arts Program there.
 
·         Honor roll student and regular volunteer at Children's National Medical Center was awarded a scholarship to Indiana State University.  She was accepted at University of Tampa, where she plans to attend in spring, 2011.
 
DuVal-Re-Entry:
·         Student will attend Ohio Dominican University on an athletic scholarship.
 
·         Student accepted to University of Maryland-College Park and will attend in January, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 Near the beginning of last school year, the Rev. Connie Stinson, pastor of Luther Rice Memorial Baptist Church, which provides operational space for the Pathways-Edgewood program, approached the school with an idea.  A regular visitor to India, she knew some students from a school there with limited resources and opportunities to learn about other cultures and countries who would benefit from correspondence with students in the U.S.  She wondered whether students at Pathways-Edgewood would like to engage in a penpal exchange with the Indian students.
          The answer, of course, was yes.  A meeting was arranged for Rev. Stinson to talk to Pathways students and share her idea.  She spoke with them about what it was like to be going to school in India, including the cultural and economic differences, and then she encouraged them to communicate their own experiences.
          Four Pathways students agreed to become penpals, knowing that since the Indian students did not have access to the internet, all exchanges would be by mail; patience would be required.  Weeks later, Pathways received introductory letters and photos from the Indian students and immediately sent back their own stories and pictures.  The learning exchange had begun, with students from very different cultures and circumstances getting to one another's histories and dreams.
          At the end of the school year, the Pathways-Edgewood students had an idea.  Every year Pathways prints tee shirts for the Pep Rally and Fun Run.  When they found out that Rev. Stinson was returning to India in the summer, they packaged up enough tee shirts for the Indian students and sent them along with her.  Rev. Stinson posed for a picture with the students happily wearing their shirts.