Celebrating Community
Nearly 60 eighth-graders from Red Hook’s PAVE Academy traveled to Warren County, New Jersey, to spend three days on the campus of the Princeton-Blairstown Center (PBC) last week. There, the scholars participated in tailored programming designed to increase community bonding and foster teamwork and communication skills. “We hoped our students would have a stronger sense of community after this trip. […]
Off the Hook, a Falconworks program at Red Hook’s PS 15, continues to create original youth theater for 11-to-14-year-olds. The latest performances took place in November. There were 15 participants and three different plays (acts). The playwrights, who also act, all live in Red Hook. The authors were Ilse Menke (The Tea), Leryri Crus-Ramirez (The News) and Abigail Romero-Montero (Intoxicated). […]
When students go home for the summer, sometimes the excitement surrounding vacation trips and other plans might make them forget what they’ve learned in school all year. So, to beat the ‘summer brain drain,’ here are five summer reading challenges and activities – with prizes – that might give your kids the extra incentive to pick up a book and […]
Formula E and the NYC ePrix are reminding graduating high school seniors, who live in Red Hook and the surrounding neighborhoods, that they still have time to apply for a STEM scholarship. Formula E and Modis have partnered to create the first-ever NYC ePrix Scholarship, engineered by Modis, in recognition that future engineers, IT directors and event professionals will help […]
Red Hook Reporters is a community-based reporting project connecting youth to local leaders and institutions, and provid ing the tools and space needed for teens to tell the stories of their own neighborhood. For more information write info@communityheroes.nyc 909.967.207 Reimagining Warehouses by Shamiyah Gilmore (16) and Joanne Bresilien (18) What’s your story? SG: Our story is about abandoned warehouses and […]