National Signing Day: Florida’s Jalen Tabor returns as 18 Friendship Collegiate players sign
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Dec
13
College Alumni Day!
It’s that time of year again for College Alumni Day at Friendship Collegiate Academy! Founded in 2011, the Friendship Alumni program was established to ensure all Friendship Public Charter School graduates have the necessary resources and support to graduate from college.
With approximately 2,000+ graduates, the Friendship alumni network is one of the largest public charter school alumni networks in the country. One of the primary strengths of the Friendship alumni program is community building through personal relationships among advisers and fellow alumni.
The Friendship alumni support team is committed to supporting all Friendship graduates as they move towards the common goal of becoming college graduates.
College Alumni Day: 12/20 at 9:00am at Friendship Collegiate Academy
“Friendship Collegiate Academy has been a pillar in my overall success. As a student at Friendship Collegiate I was able to exercise my mathematical and engineering abilities to put me on the pathway to my passion/profession. I had a strong foundation and true desire to work in the field of engineering. During my junior and senior year I had the privilege to participate in the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics competitions as a programmer and electronics technician. I worked side by side on Saturdays with NASA volunteer engineers that helped me to key into my engineering strengths as I progressed. I was became a member of the Junior NSBE chapter and continued to concentrate my personal efforts to becoming the best engineer I could be inside and outside of the classroom.
Through the guidance of instructors like Mr./Mrs. Paula Shelton and Mr. Andy Davis in the Engineering Academy I was on a path to greatness. I graduated from Friendship in 2005 with a 3.76 cumulative grade point average; an average that I maintained despite the many struggles of a black man growing up in Southeast, DC.
I am a proud alumnus of the Temple University College of Engineering (Philadelphia, PA). At this institution I continued my involvement with the National Society of Black Engineers serving on the executive board or 2 years and graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. After college I worked with the Philadelphia School District counseling elementary school students and encouraging pursuits of professions in the STEM fields. My first engineering position out of College was with TCOM; a company that is the forefront of innovative developments in tethered aerostat systems.
I started as an Electronics Technicians maintaining the power distributions, fiber optic links and constructing mooring systems for security contracts. Through my show of due diligence I was afforded the opportunity to work as the Head Electronics Engineer for a site in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), located on the outskirts of Dubai. I have, as of recent, transitioned to Johnson Controls, a global diversified technology and industrial leader, where I serve as in engineer sales to customers in more than 150 countries. I am now a cornerstone for our DC headquarters and look to do great things within our community as I continue to pursue my passion. Engineering
Friendship Collegiate Academy is where bonds with teachers and counselors originated. My most influential relationship with my guiding light, Ms. L. Reynolds is still firm. She has been with me every step along my path of success, over a decade of support and love. And for that I am forever grateful for my Friendship experience…#ForeverKnights.”
http://friendshipalumni.weebly.com/jerome-butler.html
We asked Friendship Southeast Elementary Academy 5th grade student, Holiday Hammond, what do you enjoy most about Friendship Public Charter School?
“What I enjoy most about my school are my teachers and supportive staff members. They encourage me to achieve obstacles in many different ways rather it’s standard or not. Every day I can count on my teachers, my principal, and all staff to help prepare me for college.
My teacher ensures that every student achieve a high standard of learning tools in our daily instructions. I can already envision myself at Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University.” –Holiday Hammond, 5th grade student
Friendship Collegiate Academy Students Win Posse Foundation Scholarships BY JOHN MULLER
Lost in the static over school closings and accusations of cheating scandals are unsung young adults who tirelessly work their pencils to a nub every day no matter the political, personal, and social gridlock that encircles their teenage lives. Three high school seniors at Friendship Collegiate Academy on Minnesota Avenue NE have cut through the whirlwind. By keeping their noses to the grindstone in and out of the classroom Phillip Pride, Kirk Murphy, and Kendra Spruill have received merit-based full-tuition college scholarships from the Posse Foundation.
Founded in 1989, the Posse Foundation has identified, recruited, and trained more than 4,000 students, upwards of 400 from the Washington metropolitan area, to join groups of 10 students who support each other as they attend the same university together. To ease the transition before going off to college and while there, Posse recipients attend weekly meetings that provide shared understanding, encouragement, and support. Before receiving their scholarships these three students from Friendship Collegiate Academy had already leaned on and challenged each other to excel, a testament to the caliber of young men and women the school is producing and sending out into the world.
Phillip Pride Phillip Pride, who lives in Fairlawn, was attending the National High School Gaming Academy’s pre-college summer program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, when he met a national network of gamers, those who specialize in role-playing or war-themed video games. For Phillip there was no better place to be.
The program introduces students to the industry of video game development through classroom lectures and creative instruction while giving guidance toward starting a career in the video game industry. Phillip plans to study computer science at Sewanee University of the South in the mountains of Tennessee. “My future goals are to work as a game programmer for a large private company and eventually start my own company.” An avid reader of PC Magazine, Phillip maintains a 4.0 grade point average and prefers role-playing games over sports games unlike his friend, fellow Friendship Collegiate senior Kirk Murphy. On Xbox they compete against each other nearly every evening. Most appropriately it was through Xbox that Phillip and Kirk learned they had each received Posse scholarships to attend Sewanee, a top-ranked liberal arts college.
Kirk Murphy Growing up in Congress Heights, Kirk Murphy saw the dangers of abandoning an education. Kirk experienced a separation of wills between him and many of his friends after graduating Charles Hart Middle School on Mississippi Avenue SE. “The path they’re taking is not good. Over the years we’ve gone in different paths,” says Kirk, who played on special teams for the school’s powerhouse football team and runs track year round. Last summer Kirk got a taste of campus life in a college preparatory program at Boston University. Academic achievement is increasingly becoming a family affair for Kirk. His older sister, Kiana, graduated from Friendship Collegiate in 2011 and earned not only a Posse Scholarship to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, but also a Gates Millennium Scholarship, which provides for her through her PhD studies. After compiling a 3.6 grade point average, Kirk plans to study business management or computer science.
Kendra Spruill Since coming to Friendship Collegiate Academy as a sophomore, Kendra Spruill has been active in student government, currently serving as the school’s mayor. She has also coordinated service projects in the community, run track in the winter and spring, and accumulated a 3.9 grade point average. In the fall she plans to study psychology at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, with the support of the Posse Foundation. “I was very excited and almost shocked because there were so many other students that should have gotten the scholarship too, and yet they chose me,” says Kendra.
The second oldest in her family, Kendra says she is looking forward to making new personal and professional discoveries that the independence of college life promises. Kendra says, “High school let me know that hard work does pay, and with the support of Posse you continue that hard work together.” Posse Foundation & Friendship Collegiate Academy In short questionnaires I sent the students before our interview they all mentioned the importance of Dr. Arsallah Shairzay, Dean of Early College and Director of the Advanced Placement Program for Friendship Collegiate since 2004, in guiding them through the application process.
Friendship Collegiate’s Posse scholars benefited from the school’s policy of encouraging students to take advanced placement courses in subjects such as psychology, human geography, computer science, world history, and U.S. government to better prepare them for college. More than 2,500 students have taken these classes since 2004. According to Dr. Shairzay nominations to Posse DC scholarships are open to all public and private high schools in the metropolitan area, including those in the District, Maryland, and Virginia.
This year more than 1,600 students were nominated. “I have been nominating students for the Posse Foundation scholarships since 2006, and a total of 24 Friendship Collegiate Academy students have won this merit-based scholarship,” says Dr. Sharizay. “Every year I invite some of our former Posse Scholars to Collegiate Academy to talk about their college experiences. These meetings have been helpful in encouraging current students to do well in high school and providing them with information about the Posse colleges and universities that students may consider.”
In the hallways of Friendship Collegiate, on my way to interview the latest Posse recipients, a handful of students greeted Dr. Shairzay and also extended a professional handshake in my direction. From the business manners of its students to the trophy case of an emerging athletic powerhouse, Friendship Collegiate Academy, a public charter school, compares well with the Washington area’s most prominent private schools. If you ask Phillip, Kirk, and Kendra they will tell you a scholarship from the Posse Foundation is not the end of their education, but the beginning.
http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/friendship-collegiate-academy-students-win-posse-foundation-scholarships
We asked Chamberlain Campus Friendship Public Charter School teacher, Ms. Candace Elliot, how do you prepare your students for college?
“I infuse college awareness into our everyday routines. Each student’s table is named after a university; students are constantly hearing their university name. Each morning message is addressed to my “College-Bound Scholars.”
Outside my door, I have a display that details my road to college. One of the most important college connections I make is teaching “college words” — robust vocabulary that students will take with them to college. It has been really fun to hear my students use words like melancholy, expeditious, boisterous, loquacious, disheveled, persistent, scrumptious, etc.” -Candace Elliot, Chamberlain Elementary Kindergarten Teacher
Friendship Collegiate Academy National College Signing Day is an exciting day not only for our student athletes, but for our families, friends, staff and coaches. On Wednesday, February 6, 2013- 20 graduating student-athletes from our Knights Football Team revealed their prospective school choices on National College Signing Day.
Each student received full tuition college scholarships at their respective schools. Friendship Collegiate Academy has a 91% graduation rate, with 100% college acceptance success! We congratulate all of our students on their success in and outside of the classroom.
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Jan
13
We’re off to a STRONG Start!
We’re already off to a strong start for 2013 reading, leading and learning from our Friendship students, from pre-k through college! Let us show you a Friendship scholar!
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