Tag: Teen Achievers
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Providing opportunities for minorities, who are often marginalized and challenged to access resources to help them live, healthy, happy, productive lives is not new to the YMCA. In 1967 Quentin Mease at the South Central YMCA in Houston, Texas developed the Black Achievers program and in 1971 financial consultant Dr. Leo B. Marsh at the…
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Tuxedo & Tennis Shoes: Detroit Achievers Awards July 11, 2015 | 5:30 pm at the Boll Family YMCA theatre 1401 Broadway, Detroit, MI 48226 Y Detroit Achievers are professionals who volunteer as role models for Detroit youth. Throughout the service year, Achievers demonstrate the benefits of hard work, service, professionalism, integrity, educational achievement and community…
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Every year, MY-Y staff take a busload of 45 students on a tour of Southern colleges and universities. They visit both historically black colleges and universities such as Spelman and Morehouse, as well as mainstream universities such as Vanderbilt and Clemson. They are seeking sponsorships to defray the $725 fee for the tour for students…
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The young people of the Metro Youth YMCA’s ICan Achieve program celebrated the end of the school year, and all their hard-won accomplishments, with a formal ball at the Boll Family YMCA. The young people enjoyed dancing, food and a photo booth as they marked the end of another successful year.
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More than 200 teens from the Metro area learned the steps to college success at the MYCAN Teen Successfest sponsored by the Metro Youth YMCA.