This is where we celebrate the world of AVID - the places, the people and the passion. From AVID's birthplace in San Diego, CA to Melbourne, FL to Germany to Japan, and just about everywhere in between. Here we will honor your success. We will share and learn. And we will feel connected to this great, extended family that is AVID.
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Quick links to the stories below:
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Success in the Classroom
The school day is over, although not all of the students have left. There is the sound of football cleats coming down the hallway; the Freshman Football team is coming in for their bi-weekly tutoring with volunteers from the AVID Program. The Hanna AVID students welcome the opportunity to share the learning methodologies that they have mastered with others. The team's perfect season was eclipsed only by their successes in the classroom. GO Eagles!
Homer Hanna High School
Brownsville, TX
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Foundations of Leadership
The AVID 11 curriculum at Capital High School has a strong leadership component and they actually teach a concurrent enrollment class called Foundations of Leadership 101 through Boise State University to their AVID Juniors. Students get three elective college credits for the course, and after receiving a grant, they were able to participate in a high ropes challenge course as part of the curriculum. The goal is for students to challenge themselves to step out of their comfort zones and take risks to grow. It is an amazing experience that gives them an entirely new level of self-confidence to tackle the challenges that lie ahead as they prepare for college.
Capital High School
Boise, Idaho
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Tremendous Strides
The AVID Academy at Miami Northwestern has made tremendous strides toward changing their communities' culture through the importance of college readiness and a lifelong commitment to rise above life's challenges. Through the exposure of college tours, students have been able to connect and build their chances of attending college with greater tenacity and complete understanding more so than ever before. It was through the efforts of this college tour to Nova Southeastern University that provided students the opportunity to gain over $650,000 in scholarship and grant funding. AVID students at Miami Northwestern are optimistic in their confidence to compete globally with their peers and feel more marketable now that they have been exposed to a world clearly different than their own. "We are redefining legacies and preparing the stories that will be written in the future."
Miami Northwestern Senior High
Miami, Fl
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AVID Class Field Trip
Senior AVID students from Sonoma Valley High School took a trip to El Salvador during Spring Break last year as part of a community service project. Through the nonprofit group "Seeds of Learning (SOL)," based in Sonoma, the students helped build a school. SOL has been building schools in Central America for the past 10 years and has always wanted to connect with the High School to get students to participate.
The AVID students had been doing various volunteer works throughout their high school careers and this was their opportunity to give back in a more global arena. They had to raise approximately $1700 per student and they did many fund raisers (pasta feed, Latino luncheons, letter writing, etc.) and although some student's are still paying off their trip, it was a real learning experience to work together to coordinate these events.
The trip itself was life changing. They were the first crew to arrive on the site in a little town called Irioma. Their job was to remove the trees and flatten the land. This was done with no big machinery, all by hand and with team work which included the AVID students and the community volunteers. In the afternoons, the group went on many site visits to historical places of interests, and visited other schools that SOL had built in the past.
It was a great culmination of four years of being in the classroom together. The school will be continuing this project in the years to come via the AVID Club and have already begun planning a trip to Nicaragua next Spring break with the Rotary club from Sonoma.
Sonoma Valley High
Sonoma Valley, CA
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The AVID Family
Throughout the school year, every AVID classroom promotes team building through various games and activities hoping that one day, the classroom becomes a family. Barrientes Middle School's AVID family proved to be there for one another when one of the AVID students lost his home to a fire. Without delay, the AVID students organized a car wash. Students, teachers, faculty, family, and community members scrubbed, washed and rinsed. With the funds recruited, the family was able to purchase supplies to build a roof for their new home. Truly, it was a remarkable day and experience for the entire AVID family.
Barrientes Middle School
Edinburg, TX
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AVID Food Bank
The AVID students at Northglenn High School were looking for a community service project that would benefit the students and community directly. After talking with teachers, counselors, and students, they realized that many students and families have difficulty obtaining food at home. The students started an AVID food bank at the school. They organized a canned food drive during the fall and throughout the 2010-2011 school year that provided food on a regular basis to over 30 families. They will continue with this project each year.
Northglenn High School
Northglenn, CO
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Holiday Gala
Students at Vine Middle Magnet School in Knoxville, Tennessee, held their first AVID Holiday Gala 2011 fundraising event. It is the first time in the history of AVID at VMMS that an event of this magnitude took place, with more than 150 tickets purchased by students, parents and friends. In addition to fine dining, dancing, AVID students presented speeches that expressed their personal feelings about AVID and how it has enhanced their academic career. More than $500.00 was raised and will help support the costs of college field trips.
Vine Middle Magnet School
Knoxville, TN
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Moments in Time
Senior citizens at a local assisted-living home and AVID 3 students at Loudoun County High School joined together to create a memoir, "Moments in Time," highlighting the lives of 10 residents. The AVID students interviewed the seniors and then wrote their stories. As AVID student Michael Campbell, so aptly said, "The project has made us all have a better understanding of a finer generation and what it means to appreciate life and be successful."
Loudoun County Public Schools
Ashburn, VA
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Toys for Tots
The AVID program at Terra Linda High School recently partnered with Alice Radio's Sarah and Vinnie Morning Show's Toys for Tots drive. They collected and donated three carloads of toys to the Marines on location at the San Rafael Toys "R" Us location. Then, they stayed to collect additional toys brought in by fans throughout the morning.
Terra Linda High School
San Rafael, CA
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Reintroducing AVID
Earlimart Middle School was excited to reintroduce AVID after years of it being inactive. Even though there were many obstacles to overcome, both 7th and 8th grade AVID successfully held fundraisers, a parent workshop, participated in community service, and hosted the school's first annual "College Night" titled "Why College is for Me," where the students represented their teachers' alma maters. Overall, the year was a success and paved the way for AVID awareness schoolwide.
Earlimart Middle School
Earlimart, CA
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