Student Spotlight | Volunteer Opportunity | Class of 2022 by the Numbers | Middle School Field Trips
LEAP Student Offered Over $500K in College Scholarship Awards!
Peabody Veterans Memorial High School senior Ketsia Kabeya is off to Boston University, where she will study political science on a pre-law track.
Choosing BU was a difficult decision because institutions eager to have Ketsia join them offered a total of over $520,000 in scholarships! Ketsia aspires to be a prosecutor. In her spare time she reads manga or watches anime adaptations; occasionally she sharpens her baking skills.
Ketsia has been part of LEAP’s College Success Program since her junior year. Join us in congratulating Ketsia Kabeya!
Among other activities and opportunities, College Success makes available up-to-date research about colleges and universities, organizes college visits, and provides tips and strategies for completing college applications and essays. Learn more at www.leap4ed.org/college-success-program.
You Can Make a Difference!
Volunteer 1-Hour/Week as a Summer Career Mentor
LEAP's Summer Work Programis looking for Career Mentors to work only 1 hour/week for 6 weeks to help students explore their interests, develop their goals, and build their workplace skills! You may lend your professional expertise or even a passionate hobby of yours with a student interested in that field.
We are seeking matches for 100 students this summer and need a large pool of inspired mentors to unleash the talent and skills of our students. Learn more about this mutually rewarding role.
Schedule: July 14th - August 18th, 2022
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-1:30 PM plus 1 hr. per week of planning
Mostly virtual with a few meetings in Salem if possible
QUESTIONS? Contact Carly Colombo, Career Mentor Associate at ccolombo@leap4ed.org.
The Class of 2022 by the Numbers
LEAP Salem and Peabody Seniors Step into the Future
Forty-nine high school juniors and seniors in Salem and Peabody participated in this year'sCollege Success Program. We congratulate our LEAP seniors for their hard work, talents and abilities that resulted in these remarkable accomplishments.
submitted deposits to continue their education at post-secondary institutions
1.8
million
grant and scholarship dollars offered
College Success has three goals designed to help students: explore their values, interests and priorities; use those explorations to develop a plan for their next steps; and identify and pursue grants and scholarships that will minimize debt after graduation. Learn more at www.leap4ed.org/college-success-program.
Salem and Lynn Middle School Students Out and About
This spring, LEAP students at Collins Middle School in Salem and Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Lynn have resumed field trips that had been non-existent or significantly curtailed by the pandemic.
Salem’s Expanding Horizons students visited Endicott College
in Beverly, where they toured the campus with their hosts, members of the football team who had volunteered at the program over several weeks.
Lynn’s Dream MORE students headed to Ipswich’s Crane Beach, where they had up-close encounters with coastal wildlife, sorted crabs and hiked on trails with the guidance of staff from the Trustees of Reservation.
LEAP’s Expanding Horizons and Dream MORE programs, partner programs with the Salem and Lynn public schools, serve 295 richly diverse students from economically disadvantaged households with afterschool and summer opportunities. Both are 21st Century Community Learning Center programs funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education as well as private contributions from individuals and businesses in our community.
