Just like any other Monrovian, I love this city. As a Mayflower Mariner, Clifton Cub and Monrovia Wildcat, my academic life was often touched by the teachers, lawyers, businessmen and women, and artists of this community. They were my mentors, friends, confidants and inspiration. Their support helped me get through high school, college, grad school and now life as a journalist.
Every student in Monrovia should have that experience, and every adult should have the opportunity to connect with a student.
Enter Monrovia City Link, a new mentoring project that connects a high school student with a college student, and that college student with a professional adult. All three links will be connected by similar interest in a particular subject, and an affiliation to the city of Monrovia.
Monrovia City Link is excitingly looking for high school students, college students and professionals to apply and be part of the pilot program, beginning in August 2013. Ten high school students, ten college students, and ten professionals will be selected and linked together based on similar academic interests and a commitment to mentor and engage which one another at least once a month. No one is required to be currently living in Monrovia, but all the links must have some kind of affiliation with Monrovia, Ca. We want to stress the idea to students that others have been in your shoes, come from your community, and have been successful. You can too.
City Link wants to help students who need an extra push and guidance to be succesful academically. We want to help students fill out college applications, pass a math class, and understand what they need to do to prepare for their dream job.
The program will provide mentors with the tools and information to best empower high school students to be the most academically and socially successful as he or she can be, and with networking skills and communication tools to help college students prepare for life after college. The program will end each year with a link reunion, where all the links will come together for a day of networking, fellowship and learning.
The pilot program will begin August 2013. Applications are being accepted now until June 15.
Everyone from current Monrovia High or Canyon High School students, former high school students now in college, and residents or business owners are eligible to participate. Interested high school students can apply here. Interested college students and professionals can apply here.
The project was started with the help of former Monrovia Unified School District Superintendent Linda Wagner. On the advisory board sit a number of Monrovia educators, teachers and counselors.
Share this opportunity with everyone you think may be interested, and urge them to apply by June 15. If they need a nudge, just remind them: there is no greater service than enriching the lives of a community’s youngest residents. For more information, click here.
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