Gov. Jack Markell on Saturday honored the first 35 high school students to complete the Delaware College Scholars program, an initiative preparing teens for college success.
The Delaware College Scholars program helped Middletown senior Brandon Dawson, who will be a first-generation college student when he attends Duke this fall, with the college application process.
Delaware College Scholars was featured on a segment on the PBS (WHYY) TV Show "First." The piece introduced the wider Delaware community to the great work that the scholars do during the summer and the big picture vision of the program.
St. Andrews School in Middletown, Delaware looks like something out of a postcard--from its stone archways to its Gothic cloisters to the carpets of green grass that checker the more-than 2000 acre campus.
High-achieving students who would be the first in their families to attend college are spending part of their summer gaining the academic and social skills necessary for college success thanks to a free residential program launched in Delaware last year.
Rising juniors from public high schools across the state will spend the next two and half weeks on campus gaining skills that will help them in college thanks to a new public-private partnership between St. Andrew’s and the Delaware Department of Education.