RE LOG - Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 Ransom Everglades LOG 29 Academic Partnerships Breakthrough Miami Calling upon the community service ideals they learned as students at Ransom Everglades, two lifelong friends founded a program they hoped would inspire at-risk middle school students to recognize and reach their full potential. Twenty- five years later, that program – Breakthrough Miami – serves more than 1,200 students from Miami-Dade County at multiple sites including Ransom Everglades School, where it operates year-round out of a rent-free office on the Middle School campus. The school offers Breakthrough Miami (see page 4) exclusive use of the Middle School during the summer months, and allows ready access to the Upper School’s aquatic, athletic and sailing facilities in the summer and on Saturdays throughout the school year. RE students and teachers serve as volunteers. Booker T. Washington Exchange Ransom Everglades and Booker T. Washington partner for a student exchange each year for two weeks. Two dozen students from Ransom Everglades participate, some attending classes at Booker T. Washington, others accompanying Booker students on the RE campus. The program, which culminates in a celebratory dinner for all participants on the RE campus, is currently being expanded to include an SAT/ACT book drive, graphing calculator support, SAT/ACT tutoring and college counseling. A conceptual interior vision of the proposed multidisciplinary + STEM center. Ransom Everglades envisions lush tropical landscap- ing between the pool and the Pagoda and a convenient ramp connecting the La Brisa land with the current Upper School.