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(Pictured left) Olivia Barron, Jessica Cifuentes and Jasmine Murray were selected for a Youth Leadership Exchange
(YLX) class this year.
Olivia will participate in YLX-Leadership Skills. Jessica and Jasmine will participate in YLX-Youth in Action.
Each October, 45 high school sophomores and juniors are chosen
from a pool of applications for Leadership Skills and another 45
are chosen for Youth in Action. This year, over 200 students applied. The students in these classes represent 33 metro area high
schools.
Over the course of the year, participants will attend class sessions, one opening retreat and one closing retreat. Topics explored during each class will encompass areas of leadership skills,
personal growth, community needs and ways to meet those needs.
(Pictured left) Amber Nelson, HR
Coordinator, who led the annual ASTEC
employee United Way campaign.
Amber was nominated and selected as one of
United Way’s Outstanding ECC award winners
this year! This is a very prestigious award and
she certainly deserves this honor.
Amber has gone above and beyond to work with
our employees to raise money for this year’s
United Way campaign. Amber will be attending
the United Way Early Bird Reception at Cole’s
Garden in OKC.
(Pictured right) Senior Alma Marquez has
been nominated and selected to serve this year
on the Superintendent’s Advisory Committee for
Metro Technology Centers.
Student Sponsorship Opportunities
Help Unlock a Child’s Potential
As public charter schools in the state of Oklahoma, ASTEC Charter High School and ASTEC Charter Middle School receive less state funding than do their public school counterparts.
To even out this budgetary discrimination, we seek private charitable contributions to help us provide students with the
best learning environment possible and this includes faculty, facilities, equipment and supplies.
If you would like to help, please consider sponsoring a student for $500 annually. For less than $1.37 a day, you can help
one of our 750 students have access to an education that would otherwise not be available.
To sponsor a student, use the gift remittance envelope in this newsletter.