Vancouver School District's GEAR UP Rocket “College: My dream, My plan!”
“GEAR UP” stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Under-graduate Programming. “Rocket” stands for Ride on to College: Kids’ Education Ticket.
Dolores Johnson, retired VSD teacher from King Elementary sits among murals honoring Dr. King created by GEAR UP students for the 2010 MLK Day of Service "Unity Within The Community" event at Fort Vancouver High School and Burnt Bridge Creek greenspace.
January Recap
On January 18 we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a Day of Service. Ed Esparza , Site Director at FVHS spearheaded the event with his GEAR UP students. They organized members and organizations of the community, bringing them together to celebrate and plant 5,000 native plants near the Burnt Bridge Creek Green Space across from Fort Vancouver High School.
February 2010
We're celebrating the end of 1st Semester by attending "Snow Falling on Cedars" at Portland Center Stage.
During 2nd Semester, students will be looking forward to completing applications for the final opportunity to attend the UW Summer Institute in Seattle. With that, we will also begin to turn our attention to developing our final Summer Program.
The countdown to Graduation has begun! 17 months 'til Graduation for the Class of 2011. We have FAFSA in our minds, and scholarships, and grants, and college, and trade school, and . . . We are preparing a Graduation Timeline to help students and families anticipate what needs to be done and deadlines. They will be mailed home, handed out at Parent Meetings, and distributed to all GEAR UP students. Be sure to keep an eye open for this important Graduation Timeline!
FAFSA is upon us! The countdown to Graduation 2011 has begun!
Information related to the FAFSA application and timelines is posted on our new link. See the upper right menu of this main GEAR UP window for "School and Training After High School."
