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Parramore Kidz Zone’s 1st Annual College Fair will take
place on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The fair will be located at the
John H. Jackson Community Center from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Participating colleges include Florida A&M University,
Bethune-Cookman University, Edward Waters College, Florida Memorial
College, Valencia Community College, and Columbia College. The college
recruiters will have recruitment literature and be available to speak to
those attending the college fair.
This college fair will give students the opportunity to
talk to the recruiters about their schools, including information on
courses and life on campus. Students can learn more about the colleges
they are already familiar with and be introduced to new ones as well.
Stanley Cromartie, the City’s Youth Intervention and
Prevention Coordinator and organizer of this event, says “PKZ has
traditionally focused on crime prevention and keeping kids in school in
the City’s highest poverty and highest crime neighborhood, and now we’re
looking to take it to the next level.”
Modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, Parramore Kidz
Zone employs creative outreach to engage a critical mass of Parramore’s
children and linking them to positive opportunities, including
pre-kindergarten education, parenting education, health care, mentoring,
tutoring, and constructive activities when school is out.
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