As CAST Schools across the network prepare for their first day of class for the 2024-25 school year, it’s important to take a look back at the summer-wide highlights from each CAST school, as we recognize the hard work of our students and educators:
CAST Network Welcomes Summer Interns
This summer, the CAST Network welcomed new summer interns that ranged in tasks from alumni engagement to content creation and industry relationships. Kay, Tim, Joel, Robert and Leona spent their summer working with the CAST Network, and learned how CAST aims to reinvent schooling by maximizing student opportunities.
In 2022, Bloomberg designed Summer Boost in response to COVID-related learning loss to support students over a five-week period in advancing academic progress in English Language Arts (ELA) and math while providing engaging enrichment opportunities. CAST was able to host Summer Boost camps at three of its campuses this year, providing hundreds of students with ELA and Math enrichment opportunities in a fun and exciting way.
CAST Lead High School hosted its “Summer Studio” camp back in June, where students engaged in hands-on project-based learning to prepare them for the upcoming school year. This year’s camp had students involved in a variety of games and activities throughout the camp, highlighting CAST’s four pillars along the way: Relationships, Equity, Youth Voice, and Authentic Learning.
For the entirety of the summer, CAST STEM students had been interning with Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (TMMTX). TMMTX is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, itself a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan. From June through August, student interns from CAST STEM were given a hands-on experience in manufacturing Toyota vehicles deep within San Antonio.
CAST Teach Begins Developing Wellness Rooms
After being named the first non-educators to receive a Northside Education Foundation Grant for their PBL, CAST Teach students Ana and Jasper were able to get to work this summer and begin developing their Wellness Room for the upcoming school year.
