{"id":680,"date":"2015-07-06T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reslife.winonastateu.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2019-07-18T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T21:10:42","slug":"hope-academy-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/campus-life\/blog\/hope-academy-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"H.O.P.E. Academy 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 days\u00a0can really fly by!<\/p>\n

We were fortunate enough to welcome many high school students to stay and learn at Winona State University! The H.O.P.E. (Harnessing Opportunities for Post-Secondary Education) Academy is a ten-day summer residential program for male and female high school students between the 9-12 grades.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the Academy is to offer underrepresented and underserved students with a life-altering opportunity to fully experience college life.<\/p>\n

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Many of the students who were at the academy were engaged in college-level courses, workshops, and trainings to develop, explore, and hone their leadership skills to be utilized in an ever-growing globalized society.<\/p>\n

Students got to stay in our new halls, Kirkland and Haake, for the entirety of their 10-day program. Not only did this provide them with a unique opportunity to experience what it\u2019s like to be a college on-campus resident, but it exemplified and solidified what students were learning throughout their 10-day program!<\/p>\n

On top of this, our other campus facilities were being used for recreational purposes to create and develop relationships with peers and their college mentors!<\/p>\n

A multitude of their programming took place in our Haake Hall Conference Room, which is conveniently right where students were residing.<\/p>\n

On June 17,\u00a0 the mentors arrived at 8:00am sharp in Haake\u2019s Conference Room eager and prepared to learn about their new students and about themselves. Assistant Director of Housing and Residence Life, Sarah Olcott, provided a few training sessions that paved the way for the college mentors to discover more about themselves and working with others.<\/p>\n

On a more serious note, the training that followed, taught the mentors about crisis management and working with underage individuals.<\/p>\n

After a full day of intensive training for the college mentors, high school students started arriving that same night.<\/p>\n

Throughout their 10-day journey, the Academy offered many sessions on leadership training, communication building, and life-skill activities that would serve as building blocks to help students and their families move past barriers in their life, such as racial, financial, social, and academic.<\/p>\n

Students were encouraged to move toward a successful future college experience!<\/p>\n

We were sad to see everyone leave, and we had a blast working with each and every one of you! In addition, we are very excited to work with and meet the students in the 2016 H.O.P.E. Academy next summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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