Strake Jesuit - Higher Achievement Program

HAP - HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM

    In th summer of 2008 Jesuit introduced the The Higher Achievement Program (HAP). HAP is a three-week summer outreach program organized to provide opportunities for academic enrichment, supervised recreation, and other meaningful learning activities for rising 7th and 8th graders in the setting of a Jesuit high school. Many of the students come from low-income backgrounds and may not consider Strake Jesuit College Preparatory as a possible high school destination.
    The HAP faculty consists of Jesuit teachers and is usually supported by rising seniors from the Jesuit.
    On Mondays - Thursdays HAP students attended classes from morning to early afternoon with time for lunch and a PE period at the end of the day. Fridays are reserved for field trips, career days, and other activities.
    Each day begins with a short reflection and prayer period. The students then attended four classes in the morning - Theater, Math, Applied Science, & Robotics. Some of the activities that the students work on are improv theater, gas prices and budgets, calculating interest rates, programming Lego robots, calculating momentum and acceleration in carts, and measuring angles of launch with water balloons.
    After the classes and a quick lunch, students head to athletics where they play soccer and kickball, competed in obstacle courses and tug-o’-war, and worked on their fitness level.