Community Partner : Academy for College and Career Exploration Intern : Morgan Buchanan Site Supervisor : Abby Baldwin
What is the Academy for College and Career Exploration ?
ACCE is a Baltimore middle / high school offering a first-rate academic education through unique , challenging and meaningful experiences for students in 6th-12th grade . ACCE partners with The Y in Central Maryland and local community organizations to offer internships and real-world job experience to its students .
ACCE is an organization that absolutely lives up to its title as a community school ; I think I spent more time actually in the community than I did at the school itself . I emphasize community because ACCE ’ s is a unique one with students and families from all over Baltimore City .
Through ACCE ’ s partnership with the Y in Central Maryland , I worked primarily with the community school coordinator , Abby Baldwin . She , as well Supported as many nutrition of the teachers and health and staff at ACCE , perform so many diverse tasks that not a single week of throughout this summer the was
ACCE identical community to another . Some days I would through food and hygiene resource come in with a plan from the day before to execute , and then completely flip those plans to assist with deliveries a more pressing situation . This made much of the experience exciting and diverse . Towards the
Managed logistics for the summer beginning of the internship , my main responsibility was packing food and hygiene resources for
STEM program while aiding the students and families . Abby and I would go on deliveries and connect with the Hampden Family Center
Design Engineering Innovation ( DEI ) for distribution as well . I spent a good chunk of this time reaching out to families of students that
Lab and Project Mickey humane didn ’ t meet expectations during the pandemic through phone calls and home visits to identify ways education programming
ACCE can better support their engagement . Organized
July then came and headed
with the outreach
start of for
the summer STEM bridge program for incoming ACCE students . I had the varying
ACCE roles back for to school aiding resource
the program execution , such as teaming up with students in a data analysis fair lab and with community-wide Lego battle bot child building and supporting a child psychology and humane education program vaccination . My goals towards clinic the end were focused on implementing a community-wide vaccine clinic and the back-to-school Established working resource relationships fair .
with ACCE staff , students , and Although I ended up working with programs families not originally , as well planned as surrounding , I found myself inspired by how
caring and genuine the ACCE family is . They community devote so non-profit much time outside of their typical duties to ensure their students are getting the resources organizations and support needed to be successful . This opened my eyes to the importance of having community partnerships in a school and gave me a special energy for a sector of community work that I hadn ’ t considered before .
Supported nutrition and health throughout the ACCE community through food and hygiene resource deliveries Managed logistics for the summer STEM program while aiding the Design Engineering Innovation ( DEI ) Lab and Project Mickey humane education programming Organized and headed outreach for the ACCE back to school resource fair and communitywide child vaccination clinic Established working relationships with ACCE staff , students , and families , as well as surrounding community non-profit organizations
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