Grant Brainstorm

I'm so impressed with every one's ideas. I was reading over all the service -learning and I love seeing my fellow Bonner's have such big ideas. At first I was really worried about coming up with an idea. When it comes to creativity I have such a hard time putting things together, but after reading everyone Else's I'm going to do the best I can.

First I decided for the grant, I would want to address the idea of access to higher education. You hear a lot of older people who say "a college degree is the new high school degree." College degrees are common now and expected by most employers. Kids need to be taught from a young age that a college degree is attainable for everyone. I think our target should be the albany community. Also, middle schoolers and high schoolers should both recieve the benefits of our grant ideas.

Siena students would have after school programs at albany schools that can change for different ages. Middle schoolers would recieve help with classes and also have mini training sessions, kind of like our current bonner meetings. Where we pick a topic, like time managment, and make it fun to help engage the students. With the highschoolers I think it would be really important to help with SAT prep and also even college choices. Every highschooler needs help when it comes to deciding on what colleges to apply to, and every student needs to know that their dreams are attainable. Our mission with the highschoolers would be to teach them about financial oppertunities to help pay for college.

As college students we have all gone threw these processes so who else would be better fit than us to help the students?