Scholars Program

Our 10th grade Scholars spend the year reflecting on what their lives will be like in ten years. They envision their high school graduation, decide on colleges to attend and graduate from, and determine their career paths.

For Love of Children does not stop offering support to its high school graduates after they move away to college. In fact, students who are interested have the opportunity to participate in FLOC’s unique postsecondary program during their undergraduate careers.

Jenna Simpson (left) and Diana Martins are both graduate students with the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work.

This past week, the 9th and 10th grade Scholars held their first ever Theme Expo.  This was an opportunity to share what they were learning about in theme workshop with each other.

Karina is a 9th grade Scholars student at FLOC. She is passionate about music and sports. At the holiday party Karina received red headphones; which she uses to listen to music before stepping on the soccer field.

Last week in program, the seventh grade Scholars collaborated to create the vision board pictured above.  This collage is a representation of the creative students’ future hopes and dreams. 

This year I have the privilege and the pleasure of facilitating an outstanding group of eleventh grade Scholars, who not only visibly love FLOC and the adults who work here, but who love and care for each other.

As a Scholars Program staff person, I have the opportunity to work with hundreds of young people, all of whom have infinite capacity to teach, inspire and impact those they encounter.