Project Double Discovery Continues at Columbia Campus
Bess, an eleventh grade student, presides at meetings as the governing board oversees all project decisions. The seven week residential program on Columbia campus hosts about two hundred high schoolers with college potential but not aiming there yet. The program blends academics with enrichment activities in music art journalism creative writing swimming dance and drama. Staff include teachers from New York schools along with counselors work study students and an associate director. Intensive one to one and group counseling plus tutoring from Columbia Barnard Teachers College and NYC teachers supports students. Plans for next summer are underway as Columbia administration praises the program.