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Contact:
Heather Allebaugh (407)
246.3423
Victoria Shade (407)
246.4318
2nd Annual College
Fair for Parramore Youth
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WHAT: |
Parramore Kidz
Zone’s 2nd Annual College Fair will take place
on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. The fair will be
located at the John H. Jackson Community Center
from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Participating
colleges include Florida A&M University,
Bethune-Cookman University, Edward Waters
College, Florida Memorial College, Valencia
Community College, and Columbia College. The
college recruiters will have recruitment
literature and be available to speak to those
attending the college fair.
This college
fair will give students the opportunity to talk
to the recruiters about their schools, from what
courses are offered to life on campus. Students
can learn more about the colleges they are
already familiar with and be introduced to new
ones as well.
Stanley Cromartie, the
City’s Youth Intervention and Prevention
Coordinator and organizer of this event, says
“PKZ has traditionally focused on crime
prevention and keeping kids in school in the
City’s highest poverty and highest crime
neighborhood, and we’re continuing to build on
our foundation of keeping kids engaged in
education.”
Modeled after the Harlem
Children’s Zone, Parramore Kidz Zone employs
creative outreach to engage a critical mass of
Parramore’s children and linking them to
positive opportunities, including
pre-kindergarten education, parenting education,
health care, mentoring, tutoring, and
constructive activities when school is out.
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WHO: |
Parramore Kidz
Zone
Florida A&M University
Bethune-Cookman
University
Edward Waters College
Florida
Memorial College
Valencia Community College
Columbia College
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WHEN: |
Wednesday,
January 13, 2010 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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WHERE: |
John H.
Jackson Community Center
1002 W. Carter
Street |
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