“EIP staff, teachers and student mentors switched to Blackboard Collaborate, an online learning platform… ‘We had to be flexible and find new ways to engage our students online,’ Davis said… [EIP is] another family supporting me in my goal to go to college,” said Bhuiyan, who plans to study biology.” – Anna Stolley Persky
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STEM Fusion classes draw students from throughout Northern Virginia
“’Teaching provides me with an opportunity to give back to the same program that helped me embark on an academic journey that has resulted in my professional career as a computational scientist,’ said Mason alumnus Sarom Leang, BS Chemistry ’04…” – Anna Stolley Persky
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EIP recognized as a “life changing” program
The priority for EIP is to help students go to college, regardless of where that is … In total, 95% of students involved in EIP go on to pursue college degrees. – Keya Vakil
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Linda Chilin Attaining Her ‘dream in the sky’ with Help of EIP
Linda Chilin, who has a bachelor’s degree from Mason in community health, and a master’s in biology, began her relationship with the university through its Early Identification Program and has continued into a PhD program (Damian Cristodero)
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Isabella Bah secures scholarship to support studies
Isabella Bah an EIP alumni, “… received a $10,000 EagleBank Entrepreneurship Scholarship that helped pay her sophomore tuition” and “said the opportunity EIP gave her to familiarize herself with the campus and make friends was just what she needed to acclimate to a new and challenging environment.”
– Damian Cristodero
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Ceairah Britt of ACPS scores a full ride to Mason
“Five years later, Ceairah credits the [Early Identification] Program with helping her earn a 3.5 GPA, admission to George Mason University (GMU) and a three-year full scholarship covering tuition and fees at GMU”
– Carolyn Semedo-Strauss
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The Roques: A Family of EIP & Mason Graduates
“Before [her older siblings enrolled in EIP], there wasn’t very much talk about college,” Rosa Roque said. “[EIP] made [college] an achievable goal for them. They started to see themselves coming to college and having that experience. I feel like without the direction the program gave, it would have been a lot harder for us to find ourselves on that path.”
– John Hollis
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Doreen Jospeh, A budding cyber security expert
EIP Alumna, Doreen Joseph, “a 3.98 GPA student from the Honors College, was named Mason’s Black Scholar of the Year, was a Truman Scholarship finalist, and received Honorable Mention honors for the Goldwater Scholarship that’s reserved for the nation’s top STEM students”
– John Hollis
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