Singaporean Tino Chow was today’s guest and admirably introduced to our Life Skills class by Olimpia Aldana Perez. The class was also audited by a visiting professor of Global Studies at Suffolk University, Chad Huemme. Tino’s appearance today gave Life Skills students the opportunity to compare the perceptions they formed […]
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Today’s guest was Samantha Rivera, the Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator, for an organization called ‘Year Up Providence’. ‘Year Up Providence’ is a one-year, intensive training program that provides young adults, ages 18-24, with a combination of hands-on skill development, college credits, and corporate internships. The organization opened its doors in January of 2005. Today’s Life […]
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Today’s guest, Margaret Lysy, is the Associate Director of Admissions at one of America’s best colleges, Georgetown University. Margaret came to share her personal story from growing up in Rhode Island to her current work in the Admissions department at Georgetown and encourage the Life Skills class, some of Hope High’s best and brightest juniors, […]
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An interesting article about our Hope High Life Skills program was recently posted on GoLocalProv by Lauri Lee. Thought you all might be interested. The article is a tribute to everyone who has participated for the past 11 years in the program. It’s been an unselfish community effort from Rhode Island’s best leaders to share […]
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“You should start your search for colleges NOW! At the same time, search for scholarship dollars. There’s millions of dollars waiting for someone to apply for; that someone could be YOU!” It’s all part of ‘THE ASK’. Today’s guest was Don Mays, Interim Director of Roger Williams University’s Intercultural Center. Fernando Perez was the Life […]
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For the fifth consecutive year, Hope High’s Life Skills class visited the campus of CVS, the 12th largest company in the world with $139 BILLION dollars in revenue, to learn about working in a world class organization. Carlos Sanchez, the Senior Director of Advertising Production, CVS/pharmacy, once again coordinated the event featuring guest speaker, Jose […]
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Nan Quinlan, former Manager of Training and Development at TACO, Inc in Cranston, Rhode Island, returned to the Hope High Life Skills class for a workshop on ‘Resume Writing’. Aileen Rodriguez Jimenez was the Life Skills class host welcoming Nan back to Hope Life Skills. Nan previously visited the class in January to conduct a […]
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Salyna Rae Anza and Laura Reales. Salyna from the town of Northborough in Massachusetts and Laura from the country of Columbia in South America. Two successful students enrolled in Suffolk University’s Entrepreneurial Studies program came to Hope High today to share their stories of ‘change’, ‘risk’, and ‘entrepreneurship’ and the ‘perseverance’ and ‘hard work’ each […]
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‘Teespring‘? you ask…… Here’s what Forbes Magazine recently wrote about the company: “Some tech companies look to change the way we communicate or travel in space. Teespring helps people sell t-shirts. Custom, well-made t-shirts. And it’s good at what it does. Teespring sold 6 million shirts in 2014. Hundreds of its customers make more than […]
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Today’s guest was Junior Jabbe, the Executive Manager of Business Development and Customer Relationships at Banneker Industries in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. Our ‘Life Skills’ host was Fernando Perez who welcomed Junior to Hope and our ‘Life Skills’ class. Junior’s story was about ‘change’. “I was a ‘knucklehead’. My high school experience started poorly. Bad […]
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Sydney Flanagan is a singer, songwriter, musician and performing artist. She is presently a sophomore at Dighton Rehoboth Regional High School. Sydney visited our ‘Life Skills’ class yesterday to share her story. Gisabel Salcedo was our class host, welcoming Sydney and her father, Matthew, to Hope and introducing them to her ‘Life Skills’ […]
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Today’s guest was Nick DeCesare, the Creative Director at TWOBOLT. Today’s ‘Life Skills’ class host was Joan Tueros who introduced Nick to the class. The class’s conversation with Mr DeCesare focused on the creative process and the importance of pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone to access and express our creative abilities. He […]
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