Cheerleaders Before the PSSA PREP RALLY!!

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PSA Alumni Speak To Our Students:

03 March 2011 by Jag Times Staff
Last week representatives and alumni from Penn State came to room 120 to talk about their arts and architecture programs with UCHS students. Stu-dents learned about various majors in art, portfolio preparation, academic requirements and campus life at state college.

Chinese 360 Connection!!

02 March 2011 by Jag Times Staff
Ten Lucky NGA Students, and other Selected Students from our Mandarin Language classes will be learning LIVE (Video Conferenc-ing) with a teacher from Beijing. They will also be learning at the same time as students from other schools throughout Philadelphia!!

VIOLENCE IS DISTRACTING!!

Violence is distracting students from getting their education!!
03 March 2011 by D.Weadon (NGA)
The NGA students say they are tired of the fights they see. An NGA student says “that fighting over something dumb is never the right option to be successful.” What can we do to stop this vio-lence?
In a recent report on school vio-lence, “Widening the Circle of Our Concern: Public Perceptions of the School District of Philadel-phia's Response to Intergroup Conflicts," says that “many Dis-trict students acted as Agents of Change in reducing violence.” We need your help!! How can you and I be agents of change? We are asking you to tell us how your making a change!! Send your stories of how you are mak-ing a difference here and we will print them!! Thank You!!

PSSA "PREP" RALLY: Teach Me How To Dougie!!

02 March 11 by Jag Times Staff
WOW, what a performance!! Teachers, Students, everyone doing the ‘Dougie’ to get motivated to do their best on the PSSA Tests that will be administered to our Junior Class next week!! Mr. Young ‘broke it down’ and got the loudest reac-tion from the students attending yester-day’s ‘Prep Rally’, but other honorable mentions included Ms. Delong, Ms. Mor-ris, Ms. Dixon, and Ms. Evans!! This reporter would have to award the overall trophy to the student team, but fun was had by all!! Our juniors have been learn-ing about how a good breakfast, remain-ing calm, and memorizing test-taking strategies will go a long way to getting successful scores on the PSSA Tests. Our administrators, teachers, staff,
students, and everyone else in the Uni-versity City Promise Academy Family wish them the best of luck next week!!

Student Success Center...Helping Us Get A Great Start!!

03 March 2011 by J. Kimp (STEM)
The SSC is a great place to find out about internships. Internships can help you get experience in your field, and supply experience that can help you when you apply to colleges or when you look for a job. There were 40 slots that have closed since early January, but summer openings are rolling in."Law firms, health centers and even engineer-ing firms are just a few places available” said Ms. Morgan. She also told me that there are 56 open slots for Juniors and over 70 for Seniors that are open to stu-dents who are in are city. For more in-formation, guys and gals, go see Ms. Berry and Ms Morgan down in the SSC and get ready to work hard while you get that money and experience!!

Grand Trip To See Grand Hank!!

03 March 2011 by K. Jones, D. Jeffries, S. Bonner, & R. Clark (Rm 21)
Students from University City Promise Academy went to see the Grand Hank Science Show on Saturday, February 26. Students and teachers went by school bus from West Philadelphia to Mt. Airy. It took a long time to get there, because the bus driver was lost.
The Grand Hank studio was one large room. In the front of the room was a stage. Grand Hank and the DJ were on the stage. We liked the music that the DJ played. We had to say, “DJ, HIT THAT BEAT! for him to play rap music.
Grand Hank taught us that roaches run when they hear your footsteps, not because of light. He lit a stick and put it in a bottle to show implosion. Grand Hank had a girl put her hand in a bowl of white liquid. When she took her hand out he wiped her hand on paper. The paper had her handprint with blood on it. Grand hank taught us about African American scientists and inventors. He told us about the light bulb, computers, and the traffic light.
Grand Hank told us that he and his wife graduated from Uni-versity City High School. He worked as a scientist. He invented the liquid to take your blood. Now he is a rich man.