Student Success Block: Parkway West & BMC Partnership: Thursday, Oct 21st: Trip to Bryn Mawr College

On Thursday the Student Success Block class came to Bryn Mawr for the whole day!

Below is everything that we did while we were there:

SSB students posing for a class photo at Pem Arch.

Nate' Hall from the Admissions Office spoke to the class about various components of the college applications/admissions process.

Ariel and Jomaria facilitated a panel of four current Haverford and Bryn Mawr students answered questions about their own path to college, what challenges they have faced, and what they have done to be successful. Thanks to Emilyn Sosa (HC '11), Joe Howard (HC '11), Sharaai Marreo (BMC '13), and Mickecia Witherspoon (BMC '12) for being on the panel!

On our way to lunch we stopped at Pem Arch for a photo.

After the panel we went to lunch in the Erdman dining hall with the filmmaker of "First Person" and Steve, Malikka, and Mario from the film. Anna & Elly surprised us in the dining hall with cupcakes!!

The next stop was Professor Jody Cohen's "Identity, Access, and Innovation in Education" class. We joined the students in the class (who also come to Parkway once a week) and Ben, Steve, Mario, and Malikka from 'First Person' for an interactive panel about the film, the issues it raised, and our work together as college and high school students thinking about our individual and collective futures.

After the Education class we were on to the art studio at Bryn Mawr to be trained as assistants for the mural paint day the following week.

Shira projected a portion of the mural design on the wall and showed us how she was tracing it on to the parachute cloth we would paint.

During the Mural Class everyone said what they wanted to do on the paint day (work on the scaffolding, work on the ground, work with kids activities, focus on detail, etc).