PASS Program

The Peer-Assisted Study Ses­sion Pro­gram, or P.A.S.S. for short, is an after-school pro­gram that ser­vices our younger stu­dents ages 6–12.  Men­tor­ing Part­ner­ships sup­plies tutor­ing sup­port for those pre-teens in the sur­round­ing com­mu­nity who need aca­d­e­mic assis­tance.  For two hours each day, tutors are paired one-on-one with young stu­dents to aid in home­work com­ple­tion, vocab­u­lary expan­sion, and com­puter skills development. 

 

 

 

 

Our teen men­tors are avail­able to tutor our ele­men­tary and mid­dle school stu­dents in any sub­jects for which they are in need of help and sup­port.  Our youngest stu­dents (Grades K-2) ben­e­fit from home­work assis­tance, daily read­ing ses­sions, and learn­ing sup­port soft­ware avail­able in our com­puter lab.  Our more advanced stu­dents (Grades 3–6) also receive home­work assis­tance and com­puter lit­er­acy train­ing.  Men­tors intro­duce these stu­dents to avail­able elec­tronic research tech­niques, such as ref­er­ence soft­ware and the World Wide Web, to aid them in their learn­ing process. 

Our offices are also equipped with edu­ca­tional text­books, hands-on learn­ing games, and com­puter soft­ware to stim­u­late their minds and encour­age aca­d­e­mic growth for stu­dents of every grade, from our kinder­gart­ners to our high school seniors.  Each teen men­tor receives exten­sive com­puter lit­er­acy train­ing and is schooled on each of our stu­dent soft­ware packages.

Our state-of-the-art com­puter facil­i­ties are equipped with eight per­sonal com­put­ers, a flatbed scan­ner, and a net­work printer.  Our stu­dents also have access to the Inter­net and its var­i­ous aca­d­e­mic and recre­ational resources, includ­ing e-mail, Tel­net, file trans­fer, news­groups, and chat rooms.

The P.A.S.S. Pro­gram serves approx­i­mately 20 young stu­dents a day.  We cur­rently have 20 teen men­tors on staff as tutors for the P.A.S.S. Program.