Following last year's successful pilot, our Gateway 9 afterschool program has welcomed back Ms. Ali Nebel from Massachusetts College of Art and Design to lead our math enrichment group in various adventures in math-themed artmaking. This past week, our students delved into charcoal drawing techniques, using as their common subject a landscape of 3-D geometrical figures that they had built the previous week. After the vacation, the class will explore life figure drawing.
Stay tuned for our end-of-the-year exhibition of the students' work!
All Gateway students who are interested in exploring the visual arts are encouraged to check out MassArt's spring Saturday Studios program, which is accepting registrations right now for the eight-week session starting March 6. Program information and application materials are available here. Partial scholarships may be available, depending upon your family's financial need.
Afterschool Artmaking
Medical Science on Campus and in the Workplace
On February 2, several Gateway students took advantage of great opportunities to learn about medical and scientific careers, by visiting local workplaces and institutions of higher education.
Five Gateway freshmen and sixteen Gateway juniors participated in the annual PIC Job Shadow Day, in which each student was matched with a host professional at workplaces throughout the city.
Later on the same day, an enterprising group of (mostly) Gateway sophomores led by Meghan Comeau traveled to Boston University to meet with Dean Glen Zamansky, who directs undergraduate premedical advising at BU.
Special thanks to Ms. Style for accompanying our students on both of these career explorations!
2/2 Pre-Med Meeting at BU
Calling all Gateway pre-med students:
Thanks to the efforts of Gateway sophomore Meghan Comeau, Gateway students who are interested in medicine have been invited to meet with Dean Glen Zamansky, Assistant Dean of Premedical Studies at Boston University. Dean Zamansky's title indicates that he is the person at BU who oversees all advising of students who would like to apply to medical school after college.
This meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 2 at 4:30 PM at Boston University. [Please read your email for information about the specific meeting location.] We estimate that this meeting will run until approximately 6:00 PM.
Gateway students who are interested in participating in this meeting are responsible for their own transportation to and from the meeting. Parents are very welcome to attend as well. Although we are not able to provide transportation nor chaperoning to and from this meeting, Ms. Style will be attending this meeting to support participating Gateway students.
For all students who think that they might be interested in pursuing a career in medicine or another health profession in the future, we strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to learn about how to prepare yourself for this path in college.
Students or parents who have any questions about this meeting may contact me prior to Tuesday.
1/14 G10 College Panel
On January 14, our sophomore class attended a panel discussion featuring six successful college students with ties to our O'Bryant Gateway program. On this occasion, we welcomed back with great pride two recent alumni of the O'Bryant School, Olaniyi Ogunbodede (Class of 2008) and Massiel De los Santos (Class of 2009). They were joined by Tonia Smith, an alumna of the Clara Barton Gateway program in Brooklyn who currently attends Wellesley College; Janice Mathew, an MIT senior who tutors in our program; and Dennis Guadarrama and Javier Rios, both senior undergraduate students in BU's Early Medical School Selection Program, whose students have volunteered in our program for the past three years.
After listening to our panelists describe their strategies for academic success, our students had the opportunity to ask our college volunteers more general questions about college life, in small-group discussions that were organized by gender.
Many thanks to our amazing panelists, our student facilitator Christelle Salomon, and our video production crew of Manny Rios Alers, Anthony Antonelli and Andrew Sepulveda, for helping put together this great event for our sophomore class.
Gateway Honors, Term 2
Congratulations to the following Gateway students who have earned recognition for their academic achievements in the second term of this school year:
Amazing Aces (highest course grades):
Amy Chen (ELA 10 and Chemistry Honors), Sara Cifuentes (Advanced Algebra), Jie Hao Liang (Advanced Algebra Honors), Cuong Linh (ELA 9), Iryelis Lopez (Biology and History 9), Kerlie Merizier (Geometry), Josie Valcin (History 10)
Busy Beavers (highest homework average across four core courses):
Bianca Bertrand, Amy Chen, Judy Le, Melissa Lopes, Genesis Pena, Victoria Tanis, Jemmie Tejeda, Josie Valcin, Rachael White
P.R.I.D.E. of Gateway Awards (“Golden Duckies”):
Kwaku Afari, Melissa Lopes, Iryelis Lopez, Tan Nguyen, Victoria Tanis, Jemmie Tejeda, Rachael White, Jeremy Wong
Cum Laude (3.00—3.49 GPA)
Kwaku Afari, Barry Bhagwandeen, Alfredo Brea, Bianca Brito, Zenubia Cameron, Terence Coston, Candice Gonzales, Ayana Green, Kamela Hysa, Melissa Jean, Sayyida Jean-Charles, Judy Le, Melissa Lopes, Samuel Martin, Johnny Mejia, Michael Mejia, Samantha Michel, Kristen O’Brien, Deidra Oruma, Jelissa Pimentel, Cristian Polanco, Mary Jo Raei, Queenie Rigaud, Yaritza Sanchez, Biruk Sirmollo, Lomorng Thaing, Jeremy Wong
Magna Cum Laude (3.50–3.89)
Bianca Bertrand, Amy Chen, Meghan Comeau, Xiomara Garcia, Jie Hao Liang, Cuong Linh, Iryelis Lopez, Frankline Mardi, Kerlie Merizier, Christina Nguyen, Christian Peguero, Genesis Pena, Patricia Rosa, Jemmie Tejeda, Josie Valcin
Thanks to all Gateway 9 and 10 students, families and staff for helping celebrate these accomplishments of your classmates at our recent Gateway Academic Night!
