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Higher Achievement

Washington, DC
Grant: $30,000

Established in 1975, Higher Achievement’s mission is to develop critical academic habits and attitudes in vulnerable middle school children from disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Washington, DC region in order to improve their grades, standardized test scores and attendance increasing their educational opportunities to attend top area high schools.

Math Bowl Summer Academy: Volunteer actuaries will mentor Higher Achievement Scholars as they prepare to compete in a city-wide math championship. Actuarial mentors will serve as coaches committing 4-10 hours in July/August each year assisting with the Math Bowl competition.

Weekly Mentors: Actuarial mentors connecting with Higher Achievement scholars enabling them to demonstrate significant growth and progress in mathematical understanding and problem solving skills. Math mentoring is held from 6:00pm-8:00pm, one night per week (choice of Monday, Tuesday or Thursday).

Disaster Recovery Studio: Year two program scheduled to begin October 2007 – Working on developing a pilot program from the Foundation’s Scholastic program on a disaster recovery course, actuarial volunteers would be needed to teach this course one day per week (5:00pm-6:00pm). This would involve research into various types of natural and man-made threats to determine the statistical probability of each.