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Cooking Up Connections
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Add an overline text Cooking Up Connections: How a Middle School Culinary Program Builds Friendships At Firewall Centers, the culinary program offers more than basic cooking skills—it creates a space where students build friendships, learn teamwork, and gain confidence.Once a month, students work in small groups to plan and prepare meals. While learning how…
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New Partnership: Young Bankers Club
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Add an overline text New Partnership: Young Bankers Club We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Fifth Third Bank to bring the Young Bankers Club program to our students this year! This exciting collaboration gives students the opportunity to build essential financial literacy skills that will serve them well throughout their lives.Through interactive…
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A Day in the Life of a Mentor
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From day one of COVID-19 shutting down daily activities, events, and socializing, we’ve been hard at work helping our community. Whether we have been packing and handing out groceries to families in need or tutoring students over video chat services, we have continued to serve Broward County. We want to share how this is…
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Virtual Tutoring
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COVID-19 has impacted us all. The world has been essentially shut down, but Firewall Centers wanted to create a sense of normalcy for the students that we no longer get to see in person. Our primary concern is for the health and well-being of the students and communities we serve, so we started virtual…
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Student to Mentor
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Transforming students into servant leaders is at the core of what we do here at Firewall Centers. A perfect way for the students to see how a servant leader should act is by looking to our AmeriCorps Firewall mentors. This year, we have seen several former Firewall students become part of our mentor teams.…
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3 Techniques to Help in your Child’s Learning
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We’ve all at one point or another had difficulty learning something. Whether it was Chemistry in high school, Algebra in Middle school, or even Art in kindergarten, we all needed to find a way that we learned best. Many students today focus on the Procrastination-Cram method, where they wait until the last…
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Summer Program at Lauderhill 6-12
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Firewall partnered with Lauderhill 6-12 STEM-MED Magnet School, where we just finished our first program school year, to launch a brand new summer program on June 11th. Serving over 35 incoming 6th and 7th grade students for 3 weeks, the program consisted of a full day of academic and character-building activities. In the…