By Shondra Muhammad | Deputy Executive Director
Our summer program ended on a high note with 44 children completing the 4-week Summer Session II. We closed out the program by bringing back SHAPE’s Freedom Tour. The bus trip across the southern United States was attended by 55 students and chaperones. The trip started in Jackson, Mississippi, where attendees visited civil rights museums. The group then traveled to Selma, Alabama, where they visited civil rights monuments and walked across the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge. They went on to Montgomery, Alabama, where they visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Rosa Parks Museum, and Dexter Avenue King Memorial. The last leg of the tour was through Birmingham, Alabama. Before returning home to Houston, Texas, the group visited 16th Street Baptist Church, Kelly Ingram Park, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Now that the children have settled into the fall semester, we continue to work with them to recover learning losses that were experienced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. We recently surveyed 26 children, ages 5-13, from our CAD/3D Printing program, and 96% of the students reported learning new computer information through the class. Two of the children reported not having tech classes at their schools.
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