NEWS & EVENTS

The 2009-2010 Cross Bridge Scholars Program is focusing on service. 

The Cross Bridge Scholars already worked together on a service project, working with Philadelphia Green, a non-profit committed to greening Philadelphia’s spaces.  Philadelphia Green’s annual event was called “Fall for your Park” and more information is available at http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/phlgreen/index.html.  The Cross Bridge Scholars cleaned and raked two Philadelphia parks, one in North Philadelphia and the other in West Philadelphia.

While cleaning the two parks, the Scholars also filmed their work for documentaries they are currently working on.  One group will be creating a documentary on teens and service and the other group will focus on the non-profit Philadelphia Green.  The Scholars will be editing these documentaries in the coming weeks and these videos will be available on the website afterwards.

In order to understand the documentary process, the Scholars have viewed several documentaries.  One was “Amizade Global Service-Learning Course Documentary” and the other was “Carry On” which aired on ESPN and tells the story of two high school wrestlers and what they overcame to graduate.

Participants in the program this year are enthusiastic, insightful, and eager to make the program successful.  These dynamic students became a productive, tight group that is determined to create projects that are just as thought-provoking as the program itself.  The purpose of the program is to bring together students, in an academic setting, in an attempt to bring together the Episcopal Academy community with the Philadelphia community and the work speaks for itself; the program is thriving.