LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For college kids beginning their ultimate years of highschool, now could be the time to start out the decision-making course of for the place to go after commencement. Saturday, the Asian Neighborhood Growth Council (ACDC), a Las Vegas nonprofit, held a university readiness boot camp to assist households navigate the method.
Greater than 500 college students and oldsters attended the occasion, which featured audio system like Clark County College District Superintendent Jhone Ebert. She mentioned round 75% of adults locally didn’t attend school, so school and monetary assist functions could also be a brand new expertise.
“It can be hard, quite frankly, if you don’t have people that want to help, and people are here today to help families,” Ebert mentioned. “There’s hundreds of parents and students that want help. They want to go to college, and we are here to do that, to help them.”
For college kids beginning their ultimate years of highschool, now could be the time to start out the decision-making course of for the place to go after commencement. Saturday, the Asian Neighborhood Growth Council (ACDC), a Las Vegas nonprofit, held a university readiness boot camp to assist households navigate the method. (KLAS)For college kids beginning their ultimate years of highschool, now could be the time to start out the decision-making course of for the place to go after commencement. Saturday, the Asian Neighborhood Growth Council (ACDC), a Las Vegas nonprofit, held a university readiness boot camp to assist households navigate the method. (KLAS)
For college kids beginning their ultimate years of highschool, now could be the time to start out the decision-making course of for the place to go after commencement. Saturday, the Asian Neighborhood Growth Council (ACDC), a Las Vegas nonprofit, held a university readiness boot camp to assist households navigate the method. (KLAS)
ACDC President and Founder Vida Lin mentioned she couldn’t go to varsity when she was youthful, needing to dedicate her time to her household’s small enterprise. Her group desires to make it so future generations can go down a special path.
“We want to give the opportunity for those that thought they couldn’t have,” Lin mentioned.
For these unable to attend the boot camp, Lin mentioned ACDC may have school readiness lessons at their headquarters close to Rainbow Boulevard and Desert Inn Highway. She additionally mentioned ACDC is planning a commerce faculty boot camp for college kids contemplating various pathways.