Take Stock In Children Visits Florida International University

Gina Hipson, TSIC Student Advocate, and Meredith A. Cline, Upper Keys Mentor Coordinator, took twenty Coral Shores and Marathon High School Take Stock In Children scholars and three MHS mentors (David Kirwan, Marlisa Clohecy, Lynn Goodwin) to tour the Florida International University (FIU) campus in Miami on December 2, 2004. The Monroe County Education Foundation sponsored this field trip for these twenty 11th and 12th grade scholarship recipients. For many, it was their first experience being on a college campus. Students toured the campus, classrooms, library, dorms, admission offices and cafeteria/student union. Lunch was sponsored for all by Thivo and Cole Foster, TSIC donors.

Two Marathon High/TSIC 2004 graduates (Sabrina Hoffman and Destin Bayer) who are attending FIU and living on campus met with the group to answer questions and provide information about campus life.

 

  Take Stock In Children Scholarships Awarded - November 2004


The Monroe County Education Foundation's Take Stock In Children Program awarded 27 scholarships this week to qualified 7th grade students in Monroe County Schools.  There are now 250 students in Monroe County Schools, in grades 7 thru 12, with Take Stock scholarships.  Each of these students will be provided with four years of college tuition to a Florida college upon graduation and the honoring of their contract.  The contract requires the students to maintain high grades, attend school regularly, follow the code of student conduct and remain crime and drug free.  Each student has a volunteer community mentor who meets with them each week during the school year to provide support, guidance and encouragement to follow their contract and succeed at the highest level. If you are interested in learning more about this wonderful program, call Steve Bear, Program Coordinator @ 293-1546 or Gina Hipson, Student Advocate @ 289-1718. 

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Horace O'Bryant Students sign Take Stock in Children contracts

"Take Stock" Students go to College

The Take Stock In Children program sponsored a field trip for 11-12th grade scholarship recipients from Marathon High and Coral Shores High.  Twenty students and six of the student's mentors attended an orientation and campus tour at Florida International University on March 30th. 

Take Stock Annual Donors’ Forum a Success

The Women’s Club of Key West hosted the Monroe County Education Foundation’s annual Donors’ Forum for the Take Stock In Children scholarship program.  Education Foundation president, Tom Sawyer, acknowledged the ongoing support of its leadership donors Sheriff Rick Roth and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, The Edward Knight Foundation, the Foster Family Foundation and John Padget of the Padget Foundation.

 

39 Seventh Grade Recipients in Take Stock

The Monroe County Education Foundation, in partnership with the District School Board, celebrated the signing of 39 new 7th grade scholarship recipients at five district schools during the past week. 

During the second week of September, 218 Take Stock In Children scholarship recipients from seven of our District’s schools met with their mentors to begin the 2003-04 school year.  Students and their mentors met to catch up on summer events and schedule their weekly meetings.  The Take Stock staff welcomed the community volunteers and thanked them for their commitment and support.  The staff also reviewed the student’s contract requirements to pass all course work, follow the code of student conduct, attend school regularly, remain crime and drug free and meet with their mentor each week at the scheduled time.  In May 2004, the Monroe County Take Stock Program will celebrate its largest graduating class of scholarship recipients.  Twenty-nine (29) seniors will receive their scholarships, which provides them with two years at any one of the state community colleges, followed by two years at any one of the state colleges or university’s, with 100% tuition paid. The program is now in the process of reviewing the applications for the incoming group of 7th graders, who will sign their contracts in November.  Each student must have a mentor at the time of contract signing.  If anyone is interested in becoming a mentor or learning more about the Take Stock In Children Program, please call Steve Bear, Program Coordinator, 293-1546, Gina Roche, Student Advocate, 289-1718 or Kathryn Fraider, Mentor Coordinator,293-1544.

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