News
Making
connections: Mohonasen students meet with GE mentors
Dec. 3, 2008
More than 30 students will meet with
Mohonasen math teacher Ms. Zych and math administrator Ms. Bromley
for eight Wednesdays in the coming months to board a bus and head to
the main GE plant in Schenectady. There, they will meet with
engineers either one-on-one or in small groups, according to the
math courses they are taking ranging from Regents Algebra all the
way up to Pre-Calculus.
This program benefits both students and engineers, building a bridge
that gives Mohonasen students the opportunity to develop
relationships beyond the district and learn math from a new
perspective. It represents a significant commitment for students, as
they leave campus around 3:30 p.m. and return just before 6 p.m.
Many of the tutors have come back year after year, some for all six
of the years the program been in place, seeking to meet new students
and to see how the students they have worked with in the past are
doing now.
The program runs every fall and spring semester, for approximately
eight weeks at a time. Students can get forms from their math
teachers or on-line approximately a month before the session starts.
The next applications will be available in late March 2009.
