High School Students: Learn how to plan and implement a community service project worthy of White House recognition!

Colleges are giving greater weight to nonacademic factors in their admissions decisions. Admissions officers look for traits in leadership, well-roundedness, and community awwareness and problem solving abilities.

This workshop is for students in grades 8-12 who, in their quest to give back to their communities, would like to plan an effective community service project that will affect change where they live or solve some local problem. During this six week course students will learn the mechanics of an impactful service project, from vision to implementation. Students are equipped with the knowledge and skills to build an impressive service project while developing the traits of a leader and community change agent. The topics which will be covered are the following:

Identifying the problem

Researching solutions

Birthing the vision

Collecting resources to implement

Strategy and Consistency

Measuring Impact

This course takes place every Sunday, from 3pm to 6pm.

The purpose of this course is to help students create and organize actions plans, implement their ideas, and to increase self-efficacy in each student. Another goal of this course is to improve each student's college-readiness through practical action and a committment to community service. Parents are invited to a culminating event where students make presentations about their service projects.

About the instructor:

Kwanza Fisher is a local change agent who has been honored by the White House as a Champion of Change for her work in community education issues, particularly her efforts to help close the achievement gap in math. She has also been honored by other community organizations for these same efforts. She is the founder of Math-Amazing Neighborhoods (formerly known as Neighborhood Mathematica) and is the CEO of Catalyst Achievers, LLC, an education consulting and tutoring company, specializing in academic planning. She is currently a Master's student at Georgia State University for Education Psychology, and graduated from Wellesley College and North Atlanta High School. Kwanza's passions is helping youth succeed in academics and community initiatives. She is a native of Atlanta who speaks fluent Spanish and Mandarin.