![Project ALERTA in class](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/ALERTA_groupsofstudentspreparetojump-26r3ht5-470x140.jpg)
Last Wednesday, Lisa Link (my supervisor) and I gave Project ALERTA a visit to see what the students were up to this summer after lunch…
![Project REACH students take on "Food Deserts"](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/REACH_takeastand-22glaa8-470x140.jpg)
Are you ready to unpack the disparities in what holds some communities back? Until next post!
![Welcome back activity with Project REACH](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/REACH_Braceletmaking-1mn21cz-470x140.jpg)
The woman in the middle in the photo above, is Sadie, who is an entrepreneur. Sadie has her own jewelry business, she works with minerals…
![TAG T-shirt Day Talk & Tour with TA](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/TAG_DouglasMatute-27ervx8-470x140.jpg)
Thursday, July 13th was the Talent and Gifted (TAG)’s T-Shirt day. T-Shirt Day at TAG allows new and returning students to wear the T-shirts they…
![Urban Scholars Program Goes to New England College of Optometry (NECO)](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/IMG_0105_copy-1ccmsp9-470x140.jpg)
On the second Friday of the Urban Scholars program, four TA’s, 30 students and the program director went to the New England College of…
![Sign of Camp Shriver](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/camp-shriver-sign-2lp4aay-470x140.png)
Camp Shriver, an inclusive sports camp, returns in the summer of 2017. Since it was founded in 2006, Camp Shriver has welcomed over 900 children…
![Returning, new students TAs and even alumni of the program waiting for Jeff Foulkes, Associate Director of Urban Scholars to give a preview of the summer.](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/USP_firstpost_taandstudentswait_June2017-17gq0op-470x140.jpg)
These high school and college students could have been anywhere else in the world this summer, but they decided to spend their summer here at…
![Welcome from Urban Scholar Alumna: Anny Thach](https://blogs.umb.edu/summeryouth/files/2017/07/Webpublishingintern_AnnyThach_June2017-1qk0700-470x140.jpg)
My name is Anny (with a “y”) Thach, alumna from the Urban Scholars Program and Fenway High. I am a rising sophomore at the College of…