About half of our students leave this week for their summer international projects with others leaving over the next couple of weeks. This summer our students will be performing public service projects on the world’s six inhabited continents including a few who will be working on international projects in Arkansas, New York and Washington D.C.
Read MoreStudent Makes Cover of SYNC
SYNC Weekly, the local tabloid newspaper geared toward young readers, did its cover story this week on Clinton School student Marquita Little. Little is traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa, this summer to complete her International Public Service Project with Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy. She is a Little Rock native who graduated from McClellan High School and Hendrix College in Conway. Below is a snipet from the article. Click here for the full story.
Read MoreAll Over the Map
There is a new map display in the lobby of Sturgis Hall showing where all the Clinton School students are headed this summer to complete their International Public Service Projects. Check out the photo below.
Read MoreGoing Global
Erin Jones (pictured above with Dean Skip Rutherford) was the first Clinton School student to leave Little Rock as students are preparing for their summer International Public Service Projects on all six inhabited continents. Jones is headed to Calcutta, India to work with the Loreto Day School. Listed below are the students, their projects and their locations.
Read MoreThe Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley
Clinton School students J.D. Lowery, Russ Swearingen and Jonathan Mwaba traveled to Fayetteville today with Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe to attend a production of “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley” with 1,000 area elementary students at the Walton Arts Center.
Read MoreThe Red Sash Award
Clinton School Graduate Dr. Gary Wheeler is one of 10 physicians selected by students at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus to receive the Red Sash Award. The Red Sash Award is given by the medical students to those who have had the most significant impact on their education.
Read MoreStudents Help South Main Street
As part of the two school’s joint Altheimer Public Service Program, the students partnered with Southside Main Street to complete the survey and throw a block party for the neighborhood earlier this month. The surveys went to neighborhood residents and business owners to determine the best ways to enhance the community.
Read MoreFlat Stanley Part 2
Students in the Clinton School’s third class visited the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion today to make paper Flat Stanley’s to accompany them on their International Public Service Projects this summer.
Read MoreStudent Reports on MLK March
Six UACS students left Little Rock Thursday afternoon, headed for Memphis to participate the next day in a march for recommitment to mark the 40th anniversary of the day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed.
Read MoreStudents Visit Memphis for King Events
Several Clinton School students traveled to Memphis this weekend for the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The presidential candidates were on hand and several of the students met future Republican nominee John McCain and Gus’ Chicken House:
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