The Bridgeport Public Schools Board of Directors; Superintendent of Schools, Aresta L. Johnson, Ed.D.; and Principal Helen D. Giles invited Carver to bring its successful after school program to the Classical Studies Magnet Academy (CSMA). This is the first initiative Carver has undertaken outside of Norwalk.
Norwalk High School Student Spotlight: Sal Olmeda
Carver's Annual Holiday Party PHOTOS!
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church continues its generous support of Carver kids!
Carver at Side By Side Charter School
Side by Side Charter School was founded in 1997 by six public school educators when Connecticut charter school law first went into effect. It is still the city’s only regional public charter school. Their mission as founders was to create a learning environment where diverse groups of students are challenged academically, encouraged to problem solve, and work cooperatively.
Carver in a Washington Post story, thanks to our wonderful donors, Sarah & Matthew Schimenti!
Carver's Annual Christmas Party this Friday!
Rowayton Fire Department Delivers Gifts of Joy to Carver Kids!
Wishing you a joyous Festival of Lights spent with friends and family on Hanukkah
Parents and Students: Here are some aids to winning college scholarships
Have you heard of RaiseMe? 51 Brien McMahon High School students have and they (as early as 9th grade) are accumulating $626,221 in scholarship funding!
Students who are applying to colleges and universities can use the popular Common App – a digital application system that allows students to apply to any of more than 700 member colleges and universities by filling out an application once online. The same information then goes to each school the student selects.
And yet scholarship applications are still mostly singular applications that require students to fill out the same required information – name, address, personal information, grades, essays – every single time.
The Dell Foundation created Scholar Snapp to solve this problem. Scholar Snapp is a free, easy-to-use solution that allows students to reuse their application information on different scholarship applications. By using Scholar Snapp, students save valuable time and potentially find more funding for college. Scholarship providers can import application data, allowing students to stop being data entry specialists and instead spend more time personalizing their applications resulting in stronger applicant pools. It’s a win-win.
And it’s not just about time. Students from low-income families often don’t have unlimited internet access to apply to applications over and over again. Since Scholar Snapp stores more than 300 fields of information, students can save not only basic information, but also essays, letters of recommendation, and videos. Remember the Common App above? They became Scholar Snapp enabled two years ago.
