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2024 Rising Knights HBCU College Tour
by: Regina Hendrix
This unique tour strives to stimulate interest among select students in attending one of the public or privately supported HBCUs. This year, we will visit eight colleges: Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, Tuskegee University, and Fort Valley State University. The project's long-term objective is to develop ways and means to ensure that qualified BMHS high school students become familiar with the historic mission of Black Colleges and Universities and their broad range of high-quality educational programs and academic fields. Another objective is to identify students who would especially benefit from the stimulating and supportive learning environments so characteristic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, while comprising only three percent of the nation's 3,688 institutions of higher learning, are responsible for producing approximately 23 percent of all bachelor's degrees. Over 50 percent of African Americans who graduate from HBCUs go on to graduate or professional schools. HBCUs contribute to the continuing rise of black intellectuals, professionals, and creative artists, which is evident throughout American society. HBCUs graduate over 50 percent of African-American professionals, 50 percent of African American public school teachers, and 70 percent of African American dentists. HBCUs also award more than one in three of the degrees held by African Americans in natural sciences. By participating in this fundraiser, you will be helping approximately 30 young people in their pursuit of higher education! Our students will receive an enhanced awareness of the academic programs, entrance requirements, career opportunities, social and emotional support mechanisms, and financial resources offered by HBCUs. In addition, our own Knightingales Step Team will be performing! The trip will also include time when the youth will be able to see the most popular sites and attractions in the area and participate in a community service project.
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI
Beloit Memorial Jazz Orchestra is NYC Bound! Essentially Ellington Finalist 2024
by: Chris Behrens
WE DID IT AGAIN! The Beloit Memorial Jazz Orchestra has been selected as one of only fifteen bands to participate in the 29th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival in New York City, May, 2024. REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY! It is an honor to return to New York and represent Beloit and our school district. It is also an opportunity to increase our knowledge of jazz history with site visits and tours, perform on the Jazz at Lincoln Center stage, and experience the Big Apple. WE NEED YOUR HELP! This is a special opportunity for us to travel to the East Coast and compete with the best, but it is also very expensive to fly and house students, chaperones, teachers, and their instruments for five days in Manhattan. We have to raise $56,000 in the next six weeks to fund this trip… HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP : 1. Make a donation on this website! 2. Come hear us play and donate at our special event: Details coming soon on our Facebook Page BMHS Jazz Band or check back here! We are proud to represent Beloit and we are grateful for your support!
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI
Costa Rica BMHS Student Trip 2025
by: Julie Horvath
BMHS students who want to go to Costa Rica for 8 days in 2025 could use your help. Please consider making a donation to help reduce the cost to students for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Students will practice their Spanish, learn about Costa Rican culture and environmental conservation. We'll walk through the rainforest and learn about the animals and their habitats. We'll spend time at a school for a service-learning day. Our host families will teach us culinary tricks for making some typical Costa Rican foods. We even get to take a salsa dance class. We will visit a pineapple farm, taste hot chocolate the way indigenous groups prepared it historically, and play some sand volleyball on a private beach for an afternoon. One day we get to swim in natural thermal hot springs, then hike and zip-line on the side of a volcano. Our bilingual tour guide will share their collegiate knowledge about Costa Rican history, cultures, environment, conservation and politics.Our DLI and Spanish-as-a-second-language students have this unique opportunity to showcase their learning as they work toward DPI Industry-Recognized Credentials as bilingual awards (Seal of Bi-literacy and Global Scholars Program Award) through this global communities trip. We thank you for any donation.
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI
Scotland Fringe Festival
by: Greg Wallendal
The Beloit Memorial High School Theatre has once again been invited to perform at the largest theatre festival in the world, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We will prepare and perform a showpiece at the Fringe in August 2024, just as we did in 2010, 2013, and 2016. Fringe is a two-week trip in which we stay two nights in London for sightseeing and theatre in the West End, followed by ten nights in Edinburgh to explore and perform at the Fringe Festival. Please donate to help our students gain this powerful, unforgettable lifetime experience.
Beloit Memorial High School
Beloit, WI