GEAR UP summer group at Detroit School of Rock.

2024 - 2025 Events and Activities

College Visits

Participating Schools: Please contact our office if you would like us to schedule and coordinate a campus visit to 蜜桃社区 Michigan University or any Michigan college or university of interest at (269) 387-3366 or @email.   We can host up to two college visit per GEAR UP high school; preferably one in the fall and one in the spring (Dates to be determined by school).
  • October 30, 2024: 蜜桃社区 GEAR UP hosts college visits for MSU GEAR UP participants at 蜜桃社区 Michigan University
  • October 31, 2024: 蜜桃社区 GEAR UP hosts college visits for MSU GEAR UP participants at 蜜桃社区 Michigan University
  • December 6, 2024: GEAR UP Fennville High School at 蜜桃社区 Michigan University
  • February 20, 2025: GEAR UP Hartford High School at Grand Valley State University
  • March 21, 2025: GEAR UP Hartford High School at Ferris State University

 

Tutoring 

  • Tutoring at Kalamazoo Central High School on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the school library, from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Tutoring sessions will begin Tuesday, September 24, 2024 and will continue until April 2025. Tutoring at Kalamazoo Central is a collaborative effort with the Office of Pre-College Programming and Upward Bound.
     
  • PhotoStudy App Tutoring at Benton Harbor, Fennville and Hartford High Schools offered online, ANY time. This texting tutoring app is free for all students in our GEAR UP high schools. Please contact Ariel Ringo to sign-up at @email or @email.
 

In-School Activities

  • August 21, 2024: GEAR UP at Hartford HS Back to School Bash
  • Week of September 23 - 27, 2024: National GEAR UP Week! GEAR UP at Kalamazoo Central HS
  • October 3, 2024: GEAR UP at Hartford HS Parent Teacher Conferences
  • October 8, 2024: GEAR UP at Fennville HS Parent Teacher Conferences 
  • October 9, 2024: GEAR UP at Kalamazoo Central HS Parent Teacher Conferences
  • January - April 2025: GEAR UP school drives for senior nominations to Michigan Student AID (SSGO) and Michigan Education Trust (MET) award opportunities

 

Student Leadership and Career Activities

  • February 28, 2025: GEAR UP hosts Schools to Tools Career Mobile Bus at Benton Harbor HS
  • March 2025: DAPCEP STEM Day (Collaborative event with DAPCEP and GVSU GEAR UP)
  • March 7 - 9, 2025: GEAR UP students at MI-CAPP Student Leadership Summit
  • April 11, 2025: GEAR UP students at "Careers Across Hospital" event, Ascension Borgess Hospital (collaborative effort with 蜜桃社区 Regional Community Consortium, Michigan Area Health Education Center)
  • April 25, 2025: GEAR UP students at "Skilled Hands: Exploring Clinical Careers in Sutures, Casting, and Phlebotomy!" event (collaborative effort with 蜜桃社区 Regional Community Consortium, Michigan Area Health Education Center)

 

Summer Program 

  •  June 23 - 26, 2025: College Tour by charter bus, outside of the state of Michigan.
  • July 28 - 31, 2025: College Tour by charter bus, outside of the state of Michigan.

More information coming in December 2024 on our 'Summer Programs' page.