By SHAYLIN TURNER
In order to have enough money to visit some of Florida’s best universities, the Advancement Via Individual Determination students are making cookbooks for incoming college freshmen as a fundraiser.
“We try to do one to two college visits in a year, but the kids have only been to local schools like Rollins and University of Central Florida.” AVID instructor Colleen Dugan said. “I want to take them further like University of South Florida for example.”
To visit schools like University of South Florida and University of Florida they are required to take a charter bus, which is not cheap. To offset these costs they will make and sell cookbooks full of easy and inexpensive recipes. They will be accepting easy recipes from anyone willing to contribute.
“Student who are just starting to live on their own do not know how to cook. This will help them keep a budget and stay healthy,” Dugan said.
For those who are not aware, AVID is a program for college bound students who will most likely be the first in their family to graduate from college.
“It gives students the support and information they might not have received without this class,” Dugan said.
Most students start the AVID program their freshman year and follow through until their senior year. In AVID there are many different learning techniques used to help them comprehend information that they have never even thought of. One of the most important strategies used is Writing Inquiry Collaboration Reading, which will help them tremendously in making the cookbooks.
Making the cookbooks will not only teach them different ways to cook easy to understand recipes, but will help them learn how to keep a budget with food and stay healthy.
Senior Samantha Hauke, has been in AVID for almost all four years of high school now.
“The class really helps if you do not understand what you have to do to get to college,” Hauke said. “I learned more about college than I ever would have without it.”
As Dugan made the point earlier it is essential for the students to be able to see these schools as they might not be able to on their personal time. The cookbooks are just one small step towards their future.
The deadline date for recipes has not yet been set. They plan to sell them in the range of $5 to $10. Their goal is for the books to be ready by spring of 2012. If interested in turning in personal recipes for the book or have any further questions please see Ms. Dugan in Room 221.