Trailblazing Podcast

CPrep Senior, Kyle Peters talks about his upcoming appearance at the Apollo in NYC.

Guest Chris Fulton speaks about the upcoming 4th annual , An Investment on Main Street Golf Tournament.

Capital Prep principal, Dr. Ferguson speaks about the summer camp programming.

This summer Capital Prep will offer exciting Summer Camps during our traditional five-week session. July 10th is Capital Prep’s first day of school for the 17-18SY. During our summer session, July 10-August 11, students in K-10th grades will have academics in the morning and their chosen summer camp in the afternoon.

The Pegasus “Wings” Program (Wings) is an innovative 501(c)3 non-profit ‘pilot training’ scholarship fund initially targeting deprived youth in the Greater Hartford community. Wings was authored and developed under the auspices of Pegasus Air Charter – a progressive Air Charter company headquartered at Brainard Airport, in Hartford Connecticut. Pegasus also offers Air Ambulance services, Professional Flight Training services and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aka Drone services. The explicit mandate of the Wings program is Workforce Development – an effort organized in partnership with the City of Hartford – specific to the development and implementation of a radical and turnkey pilot training pipeline. The timing of Wings; its development and execution, as a sustainable jobs-producing program, is also germane given the current industry condition and forecasts relating to the chronic shortage of commercial pilots both at home and abroad. The Pegasus “Wings” Program was developed on the basis of true-life data relating to the global shortage of commercial pilots. This has inspired the development of Wings’, further solidifying its mission of seeking-out, engaging and training deprived teenagers to become Commercial Pilots. Once successfully trained and certified, Wings graduates will receive guaranteed job placements within Pegasus’ air charter operation – as First Officers, ultimately placing them on a progressive career track towards becoming successful airline pilots.

Episode 44 - Marquise Clarke, Alumni Class of 2015

A discussion with Christina Hill, Ropkins Branch Library Manger about Daniel Handler's, "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

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The Hartford Yard Goats

Recorded live from this mornings Hartford Superintendent Candidate Forum at Capital Community College, Hartford, CT. Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez Mr. Tim Sullivan Sponsored by Achieve Hartford and hosted by Capital Community College.

Seniors at Capital Prep are required to complete a year and a half community project that involves presenting to panels, meeting with policy makers, having a focus group, and completing a 5 chapter essay. This bright young lady is my advisee who will be talking about her project which is on Homelessness.

Glen Peterson, Education Division Director

JA focuses on making students financially responsible, prepared for the workforce and entrepreneurially savvy. JA provides a powerful learning experience for young people for two reasons: JA programs are delivered by volunteers from business and the community, who work hand in hand with classroom teachers. These volunteers inspire the students through their real-world experience. The curriculum consists of hands-on activities that allow the students to learn by doing. Designed by national experts in learning, activities are engaging, fun and comprehensive. All JA lessons correlate to the state curriculum standards. While most of JA’s programs are provided to students during the school day as a part of regular classes, JA also has programs for after-school settings and sponsors conferences and other learning opportunities at local company sites and colleges and universities. JA is proud to reach thousands of young people in this region. But we need to reach more, and we can’t do so without your help. Please consider becoming a classroom volunteer – it’s easy, fun and fulfilling. You also can help by providing financial support, either through a donation or involvement in one of our special events.

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Hartford Performs is a collaborative network of Hartford Public Schools, arts providers, community organizations, funders and other supporters working together in a planned and integrated way to deliver quality arts education programs to Hartford Public School students. Developed out of the recommendations of the 2009 Hartford Public School’s Task Force on the State of the Arts, Hartford Performs is constantly growing and evolving every year in order to work toward its vision of providing arts education programs to every Hartford Public School student through arts integration, in-school arts instruction, and out-of-school arts programming. Hartford Performs became recognized as a 501(c)(3) incorporation as of 2013. Today, we support arts integration programming for students in all of Hartford’s PreK-Grade 8 neighborhood and magnet schools, as well as Professional Learning in arts integration techniques for teachers, principals, and the 200+ arts providers who offer arts programming through Hartford Performs.

The Concept of Freedom Exploring the Connecticut Freedom Trail - The Ancient Burying Ground, The Underground Rail Mary Donohue,Connecticut Explored Magazine.

The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is responsible for overseeing the governmental program of historic preservation for Connecticut’s citizens. Originally established as the Connecticut Historical Commission in 1955, the agency was merged into the Commission on Culture & Tourism in 2003 and was renamed the Historic Preservation and Museum Division. The State Historic Preservation Office was again moved in 2011 into the Department of Economic and Community Development providing new opportunities for collaboration on restoration and community revitalization.

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture presents exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and at venues across the region and the country—exciting investigations of art and culture influenced by people of African descent, as well as important people and events in American history.

Prudence Crandall purchased an imposing late Georgian-style house in 1831 to serve as a private academy for local young women. When she admitted Sarah Harris, an African American student, Crandall found that parents of white students objected. In April 1833, she opened her house as a boarding school for young African American women, an action which led to harassment by neighbors, passage of a state law against her work and her being jailed for one night. Through two court trials and an appeal to the state's Supreme Court of Errors, Crandall continued to operate her school. Only after a violent attack on the house on the night of September 9, 1834, did she agree to close the school and send her students home. In the United States during the years leading up to the Civil War, the Crandall incident was one of many that helped solidify attitudes against slavery. Crandall's effort to provide equal education, however, was a rarity for the times. In 1994, Prudence Crandall was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and in 1995, Crandall was designated as Connecticut's State Heroine. The Prudence Crandall House, a National Historic Landmark, is a museum open to the public.

Park Slope Collegiate visits Capital Prep.