Students
Healthy Land, Healthy Us!
The National Park Service has proudly adopted Agassi Prep’s 6th Grade students to participate in a “hands-on” educational program which ties their own health and well-being with the health and well-being of the public lands.
Park administrators from the Lake Mead National Recreation Area will follow our current 6th grade students for seven years, until they graduate from high school in 2016.
Each year a focus topic will support the school curriculum, State Academic Standards and the land conservation goals. The overall focus is How a Healthy Environment Helps Us! Our students will attended a related field trip on Friday, April 9, 2010.
The overall program will incorporate:
• Stewardship
• Public service
• Partnerships
• Career opportunities
• Monitoring the air, land and water quality
• Southern Nevada geography
• Volunteerism
Journals will be completed each year by our students participating in the program. The journals will be kept for the students until graduation year, 2016. These will be used as a reference to create a senior project focusing on Healthily Land, Healthy Us!
YNAPP Event
Students Against Violence (An Anti-Violence Awareness Performance) is one of the newest community outreach program initiated by the middle school student counsel at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy (AACPA). Youth Neighborhood Association Partnership Program (YNAPP) is a community based program that partners with neighborhood youth to help address problems of the community. In this youth led project, AACPA’s Students Council has designed a project where they will focus in violence prevention. With the help of YNAPP and community partners, the students hope to bring awareness, education, and a strong anti-violence message to the school and surrounding neighborhood community.
The students’ goals are to construct a night full of insightful performance that will showcase shirts, poetry, music, and stories developed by the students of AACPA. AACPA’s events will be a platform for community agencies to come and provide educational materials regarding the services they provide to the community. The goal of the presentation is to highlight all types of violence including bullying, gangs, and domestic violence. The event will provide food and children’s act ivies. The YNAPP event will be held during the month of May. Details will be forthcoming.