Here at Upward Bound Prism, our goals are to strengthen students Math & Science skills. We also provide study groups and tutoring sessions on Mondays & Wednesdays (schedule subject to change). We believe in helping students and getting them prepared for college. Our goal is also to help the students set goals for themselves and help them find out what they want to be in life. We do this by helping students make budgets, we have them choose a career, and then shadow a person in that profession. We also give them different case scenarios where they only make so much money a year and they have to budget. Our goals are also to encourage students to do the best that he/she can do. We have lots of cultural enrichment and college trips that we plan throughout the year. Prism is all about learning not only about math and science, but also about life.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: ENROLLMENT
Objective 1 Fifty (50) eligible students will be identified, recruited, and selected to participate in the Upward Bound Math and Science Program by October 31.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: ASSESSMENT
Objective 2 Ninety percent (90%) of the newly admitted participants will have their needs assessed, and an Individual Educational Plan (IEP) will be developed within 30 days of their acceptance in to the program.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: ADVISING/ COUNSELING AND RETENTION
Objective 3 Eighty percent (80%) of the fifty participants will receive academic and other supportive services (advising and counseling) resulting in seventy percent (70%) of the students being retained in the program yearly until graduation from high school.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: ACADEMIC SKILLS/ RESEARCH
Objective 4 Ninety percent (90%) of the participating students will participate in hands-on research experience during the intensive summer program.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: ACADEMIC SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Objective 5 Sixty percent (60%) of the participants will show a grade level improvement in the areas of math and science English as a measured by an achievement test. Thirty percent (30%) of the participants will show a .5 increase in their beginning and ending grade point averages.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: SECONDARY GRADUATION
Objective 6 Ninety percent (90%) of the senior participants will graduate form high school and ninety percent (90%) will successfully complete the ACT college entrance examination with sixty percent (60%) will attain a composite score that is two points (2pts) higher than their baseline composite.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: POSTSECONDARY GRADUATION
Objective 7 Ninety percent (90%) of senior participants will apply for entrance into postsecondary institution and apply for sufficient finical aid, and eighty percent (80%) will enroll in a program of postsecondary education by next fall term.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: PARTICIPANT FOLLOW-UP
Objective 8 Sixty percent (60%) of participants who have completed the program will graduate from a program of postsecondary education in the areas of math and /or science within seven years.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: LIFE SKILLS
Objective 9 Less than ten percent (10%) of the fifty participants will experience an interruption in their high school careers due to teenage pregnancy, alcohol and substance abuse, or crime.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: CULTURE ENROLMENT
Objective 10 Eighty percent (80%) of the fifty students will attend at least four cultural events, and seventy percent (70%) of students will research two careers in the areas of math and science and develop a comprehensive paper.