The English tutoring program at Nottingham High School seeks to improve social literacy by providing academic tutoring and mentorship to “English as a Second Language” students. Tutors will help Nottingham High School students from all over the world, and with a variety of backgrounds. Honors Alumnus, John Cardone ’11, started the program in Fall 2010.
The program runs Mondays-Thursdays from 2:30-3:15 pm. Tutors can select the day, or days, that work with their schedule. Transportation will be provided.
Interested students are encouraged to attend a general interest meeting on Friday, January 18th at 3pm in the Honors library. If you cannot attend, please contact either Tom Green at tbgreen@syr.edu, or Zach Zeliff at ztzeliff@syr.edu.
Here’s what some previous volunteers have to say:
“It is a joy to work with students who are so committed to their education. These students face the most difficult obstacles, come from the harshest of circumstances, but are still some of the hardest working students you will find. I always leave feeling rewarded.” –Zach Zeliff
“This program is a great way to engage with our local community, while making a significant difference in students’ lives. I am always amazed by their work ethic.” –Tom Green
Ashley Burke volunteered at the New York State fair, working with area 4 H members. 4-H represents a partnership between the Cornell University Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology and county Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations. 4-H helps youth ages 5-19 to develop and apply useful knowledge and skills, as well as positive attitudes about work, people and communications.
Like thousands of others during the holiday season, Honors student Brian Cheung helped out at The Samaritan Center, serving dinner to the needy. He said that the experience reminded him of the importance of charities in the community. He commented that, “It was nice to see exactly how many people rely on the Samaritan Center as a source of food. Being able to interact with the community was an eye-opening experience, and really showed me the need that the community has for both supplies and manpower. I hope to come back many times, hopefully building a relationship with the Samaritan Center and some of its patrons.” Take a page from Brian’s book: give and receive throughout the year!
We spent the morning amongst the grape vines, snipping the ripe bunches with clippers and piling them into the red bins. The traditional method of farming in Cinque Terre is to cut flat terraces into the mountainside, and support them with rock walls. Cinque Terre is famous for its rock-building methods – the masons use almost no cement to keep them together, yet the walls have stayed in place for hundreds of years, and remained intact after the storm. We worked from the top of the hill downwards, finishing around noon. Upon seeing us all together, the 91-year-old owner of the vineyard exclaimed: “I’ve never seen so many beautiful girls on my farm at once – now I can die!” Morbid but cute.
