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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES 2007-2008

(See a summary of last year's activities.)

 


This Year's Activities

Dr. Wrubel's "How to Pay for College"
Dr. Wrubel’s "Where Do I Want to Go to College?"
Fall SAT Prep Class
Study Skills Course - Learning How to Learn
Annual GATE Parents Group Kick Off Meeting
Returning College Student Panel
Dr. Carol Dweck's "How to Praise (and How Not to Praise) Our Students"

Last Year's Activities

Trips & classes:

SAT prep classes (presented four times)
Study Skills Course - Learning How to Learn (presented twice)
Tour of the Daily Cal newspaper in Berkeley
Tour of the San Mateo County Crime LabThe Barber of Seville - GATE students go to the opera!
Tour of the Stanford Cancer Center
Forensic Science Workshop - Do you have what it takes to join CSI?

Guest speakers:

Dr. Wrubel’s Road to College Series - Part 1: Funding a College Education
Dr. Wrubel’s Road to College Series - Part 2: Completing the Financial Aid Form
Dr. Wrubel’s Road to College Series - Part 3: Where Do I Want to Go to College?
College Financial Survival 101 - lecture by Kevin Nelson
Returning College Student Panel - College students relate their college experiences
How to Live Successfully with your Gifted Child - Presented by CAG
Everything in life is a negotiation - lecture by Stan Christensen
Dr. Frank C. Worrell

Individual site activities:

Poetry Alive
Alexander String Quartet
Ballet Folklorico
Shakespeare Performers
Trip to Asian Art Museum and San Francisco public library
Trip to Marine Science Institute
Genocide Awareness Speaker
Walking tours of San Francisco's Barbary Coast
Trip to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Math/Science day at Great America
Tour of San Francisco's Mission district murals




date last edited: 06/17/2008

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