GRANVILLE ACADEMY
Granville Academy
Our Programs
Since 1992, Granville Academy of Waterbury has provided innovative and exciting programming to our community. Programs are designed to serve grades 5-12 and offerings are constantly expanding and evolving. Below is our current offerings for students.
Future City Competition (STEM Learning)
Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. Keeping the engineering design process and project management front and center, students work in teams to ask and answer an authentic, real-world question: How can we make the world a better place? Students participate in the Future City Competition in teams (of at least three students), guided by an educator and a volunteer STEM mentor. Teams spend approximately four months creating cities that could exist at least 100 years in the future.
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Kid’s Court
The CT Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in cooperation with state and federal partners is co-sponsoring the CT Kids Court Academy. This attorney pipeline program is an outgrowth of the CT Kids Speak and Kids Court Competition developed on the campus of UCONN Law School in 1993.The Program is designed to raise the social consciousness of youth regarding civil and human rights law in a series of one-hour sessions where students will explore the law, its effects and power through attorney guidance and peer exercises and interaction.
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St. Mary’s Shadowing Program
This summer program will focus on providing students with knowledge, resources and experience in the medical field. Students will connect with hospital staff and learn how to prepare for career in health and human services.
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Dear Black Male…
We will provide a modified version of our Dear Black Male... curriculum. This offering highlights the systemic racism and oppression of people of color in America from the first attempt at slavery in 1526 to today. We explore the Media's portrayal of minorities and how that influences all aspects of the black experience in America, from Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, Education, Housing, Employment, etc. We further explore how all of this leads to cultural mistrust which influences perceptions and the quality of relationships within communities of color.
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Toast Masters
This training will help students learn how to improve their public speaking, a skill that is important to any future career.
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Financial Literacy Workshop | 8th grade – 12th grade
Financial literacy is key to helping young people manage money effectively so that they can become financially stable, build assets, and achieve their personal goals. Decisions made in early adulthood can have lasting financial consequences. This program will afford young people the ability to make better financial decisions and less financial stress and anxiety.
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Life Goals Presentation | 5th grade – 12th grade
Creating a vision board gives youth a clear direction for where they want to go in life. Vision boards allow you to visualize what goals you want to achieve. When you create a physical vision board, you can even touch what represents your vision. Vision boards are a constant reminder of what your priorities in life are.
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A Letter to My Younger Self Presentation | 6th grade – 12th grade
Writing a letter to your younger self can help work through the struggles or great times that you have experienced in life. It allows us to reflect on how we can develop our personal self-worth and confidence in who we are. Writing a letter to yourself encourages a positive affirmation of oneself. It builds up your mood and self-compassion and appreciation for the things you’ve done and the life you’ve lived.
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The Impact of Social Media on Children and Families
This training helps students, learn more about social media and its impact it can him on them and their families. We incorporate our knowledge of human behavior and the need for acceptance to help individuals identify why they make the choices they make online. By examining songs, music videos, and advertisement campaigns, we help identify the impact of imagery and subliminal messages and assist them in making distinctions between fantasy and reality. We also explore how the click of a button on a mobile device or computer to alter the trajectory of their lives forever. Additionally, we discuss the benefits of using social media in a positive way to influence social change and the lives of others.