GO Summer 2022 culminated with last-day performances as students celebrated another summer of friends, fun, and learning at GO! Check out all highlights of GO Summer 2022.
GO welcomed corporate volunteer groups this summer to lend their expertise and support for students and teachers - like the digital experts from DailyPay, who helped our middle schoolers develop their own app! A huge thanks to all of our employee volunteers from Brookfield, Cerberus, DailyPay, Glenview Capital, JPMorgan Chase, LHi Group, McKinsey, and PwC.
Congratulations to our 8th grade graduates! Their formal GO journeys complete, more than 85% of our rising 9th graders enrolled in a high-performing high school this year, including Stuyvesant, Bard, Beacon, and School of the Future.
On April 26, 2022, at Pier Sixty in NYC, the GO Spring Benefit raised an incredible $1.1 million for GO Project's year-round academic and family support programs. Our student speaker, Lanese Mejia, stole the show with her speech and had the audience in tears. GO inside more of the festivities including a full picture gallery and video highlights.
GO Project is red hot! GO boosts community building with its morning pep rally - Harambee means "all pull together" in Swahili - and it helps center our students and teachers for a full Saturday morning of learning together.
The fall semester ended with a Winter Book Fair! Thanks to a massive collection drive by Select Equity Group employees, our students and families took home slews of books to help build their home libraries.
George is so quick with his number bonds - GO George!
Alysa is on fire! GO elevated its instruction over the pandemic, providing weekday after-school literacy interventions for the first time to help students like Alysa grow into super readers!
Keep Calm and Count On! Liara is a math star!
Lirianny, 7th Grade: GO Project "helped me express myself more because I feel like I can be myself and it gave me a lot of extra confidence."
Throughout the pandemic, volunteers logged in to our K-4 classrooms to lead book discussions! GO is grateful to volunteer readers from Branching Minds, Brookfield, McKinsey, and St. Luke's School for helping our students grow their love of reading.
The GO Project welcomed students back to in-person programming in the 2021-22 school year with expanded literacy instruction and social emotional support. More than 500 bright minds are outpacing their expected grade level growth and teachers are working extra hours to uplift performance and confidence. Accelerated learning in 2022!
Jennifer Riddo, Head Teacher: "I’m happy to be back in person! Being able to interact with a room full of students makes everything better.”
Brandon Dawkins, Volunteer: “It’s been great being back in person! We’ve gotten to the point where the classroom relationships are really solidifying and working well together."