This year, the Education Committee asked our scholarship students to fill out a questionnaire detailing their future goals, likes, and possible obstacles. This furthers our initiative to focus more on planning forward, earlier in the Colegio experience, to help students begin to identify goals and careers; and to help students begin to think of the academic achievements and vocational courses necessary to achieve those goals. This information also informs and drives the new tutoring initiative we are piloting for our students in 2023.
Below is an installment in a series that showcases the hopes, dreams, and interests of individual students in our CAA Scholarship (beca) program.
Below is an installment in a series that showcases the hopes, dreams, and interests of individual students in our CAA Scholarship (beca) program.
This year, three of the Colegio students in the CAA Education Program have been accepted by universities to continue their educations for professional training. These students have worked diligently throughout their primary and secondary classes and have overcome many difficulties. We at CAA are extremely proud of them for completing their studies and maintaining the high marks required for university admission. We will be acknowledging these students and their accomplishment on this news page.
Our first graduate is Cecilia,* an outgoing and enthusiastic young woman who has been accepted at the University of Costa Rica, or UCR. She was born and grew up in San Ramón with her mother and her brother. During Cecilia’s childhood, her mother worked to support the family while also completing her own high school studies.
Because she lived far from town, Cecilia left for school at 4 am and would return home at 6 pm. In spite of this difficult schedule, she did very well in school and maintained high grades throughout. Cecilia spent 11 years in the CAA scholarship program, from 2012 to 2023. She enjoyed school and learning, and excelled in many areas, including art and science, as well as math.
She particularly enjoyed learning languages, and has studied French and English, and is studying Portuguese. She is very fluent in English and hopes to study Italian and German also. She chose the Accounting Program as her major at UCR because she is good at math, and because she felt that there are many careers open to accounting majors.
Cecilia took advantage of the tutoring classes sponsored by CAA, and she feels that those classes helped her to reach her goal of attending UCR. Cecilia will be leaving San Ramón and moving to San José to attend classes this school year, but she remains close to her family in San Ramón.
When I asked what she looks forward to at UCR, Cecilia said she looks forward to meeting more people, exchanging ideas, and having new experiences. With such an open and enthusiastic outlook she will surely make the most of the opportunities life has to offer. We wish her success in her career and are glad that CAA helped her to achieve this goal.
~Janice Brown, CAA Education Committee
If you would like to contribute financially to our San Ramón students who need your help to be successful in school, go to www.globalgiving.org/18714
*The name has been changed to protect the identity of the student.
Our first graduate is Cecilia,* an outgoing and enthusiastic young woman who has been accepted at the University of Costa Rica, or UCR. She was born and grew up in San Ramón with her mother and her brother. During Cecilia’s childhood, her mother worked to support the family while also completing her own high school studies.
Because she lived far from town, Cecilia left for school at 4 am and would return home at 6 pm. In spite of this difficult schedule, she did very well in school and maintained high grades throughout. Cecilia spent 11 years in the CAA scholarship program, from 2012 to 2023. She enjoyed school and learning, and excelled in many areas, including art and science, as well as math.
She particularly enjoyed learning languages, and has studied French and English, and is studying Portuguese. She is very fluent in English and hopes to study Italian and German also. She chose the Accounting Program as her major at UCR because she is good at math, and because she felt that there are many careers open to accounting majors.
Cecilia took advantage of the tutoring classes sponsored by CAA, and she feels that those classes helped her to reach her goal of attending UCR. Cecilia will be leaving San Ramón and moving to San José to attend classes this school year, but she remains close to her family in San Ramón.
When I asked what she looks forward to at UCR, Cecilia said she looks forward to meeting more people, exchanging ideas, and having new experiences. With such an open and enthusiastic outlook she will surely make the most of the opportunities life has to offer. We wish her success in her career and are glad that CAA helped her to achieve this goal.
~Janice Brown, CAA Education Committee
If you would like to contribute financially to our San Ramón students who need your help to be successful in school, go to www.globalgiving.org/18714
*The name has been changed to protect the identity of the student.
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