Hello Chandler AVID Family!

This has been an amazing first quarter of the school year! I continue to be impressed by our students and their commitment to being COLLEGE and CAREER ready. Our underclassmen are "learning the ropes" on how to incorporate the AVID strategies into their other classes and our upperclassmen continue to serve as models and mentors to the underclassmen and refine their skills as well.

I look forward to continuing to share with you all the wonderful things happening in our AVID elective classes next quarter and throughout the rest of the school year.

Thank you all for your continued support of our Chandler AVID Program.

Sincerely,

Heather Dyke

• Attend the CUSD College Fair
• Take a selfie where I can see the fair behind you
• Send it to Mrs. Dyke through Student Square
• Earn 20 extra credit points!

From Tuesday, September 3rd - Friday, September 20th, Chandler AVID will be promoting our crowdsourcing campaign. Please see the attached flyer for all of the details!

If an AVID student collects at least $50 in donations, they will get a "get out of a binder check free" for 2nd quarter!!!

We have 2 College Visit Field Trips coming up next quarter:

AVID Seniors will be touring Northern Arizona University on Friday, October 11th

All students will have the opportunity to attend a field trip to Grand Canyon University on Friday, October 25th (only the first 46 students to return the permission form will be allowed to attend - forms will be passed out after we return from fall break)

AVID Freshman will be touring Chandler Gilbert Community College in November, the exact date is still to be determined.

Next semester, our AVID Sophomores will tour Arizona State University and our AVID Juniors will travel to Tucson to tour the University of Arizona

President - Alisson Garcia

Vice-President - Ana Esquivel Vazquez

Treasurer - Happy Abarikiwe

Secretary - Olga Lopez

Social Media Chair - Larisa Pain

ALL current AVID students are welcome to attend!

2:30 - 3:30 - In Mrs. Dyke's room, 502

Our AVID Juniors and Seniors attended the ACC College Fair on Thursday, 8/15. They were able to talk to reps and gather information from many colleges!

Our AVID Sophomores read and annotated an article entitled "What Colleges Look For". They prepared discussion questions and engaged in an academic, collaborative discussion.

On Friday, 8/9, our AVID classes visited the CHS College and Career Center. Mrs. Milczarek shared about the resources available and Ms. Yozzie from CGCC shared information about how to earn college credit while in high school!

Our AVID Juniors and Seniors were visited by four of our CHS AVID family alumni that came back to share some advice from their first year in college. A HUGE thank you to Jazz, Natalie, Nancy, and Ali for sharing your experience and advice!

Thank you to Mr. Milbrandt for being the first guest speaker for our AVID Freshman classes. He shared his experience and advice from his path through college and career.

We are starting our 4th year of matching up pen pals with the AVID students from our feeder junior high schools, Andersen and Willis. We exchange letters with our pen pal 4 times throughout the school year. We are so excited to continue this activity to continue to foster a connection with our incoming AVID Chandler Wolves!

We are thrilled to embark on the second year with our partnership with the 4th grade math club at San Marcos Elementary School. Three times each quarter 5 of our AVID students volunteer to tutor their 4th grade students in math. AVID students were given the opportunity to sign up for shifts to volunteer. There will be a new sign up for second semester posted in December.

On Friday, 8/30, each class period was treated to a visit by a Chandler teacher. These teachers gave up time on their prep period to visit with our AVID students, share their journey through college and career, and answer questions from our students. We are so grateful that they spent their time with us!