2010 ILC at Cornell: Final Approval of the ILC!

Monday, April 19, 2010

Final Approval of the ILC!

Just recently our school board of the WCCUSD voted unanimously to support our endeavours in the ILC. I am ecstatic and pleased to finally know that I will be able to embark on such a great journey over this summer. I would like to thank all members of our school board for voting to continue this program and our superintendent for his recommendation for the continuing of this program. I am very honored to be in such a prestiogous program, and to finally know I am going to get the oppertunity to go to Ithaca New York this summer to study freedom and justice makes me speechless. I am glad to know I have the support from my school board and superintendent and would just like to let them know that their efforts are greatly appreciated.

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Charles RamseyApril 23, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Andrew you have the full support of the school board. This is why they approved your travel. I am sure that you are keeping up with your reading and participating in the spirited debate about laws and morals.

Now is the time to really expand on your curiosity and find out what you want from this experience at Cornell. A lot will take place and you need to sit down and write your goals. Who is Andrew Gonzales and what do you want from being in the Freedom and Justice Course.

Please recognize that prestige comes from hard work and effort. One must accomplish their goal to feel a sense of accomplishment and honor. This is all prestige is in the long run. You have a chance to bring back to the West Contra Costa Unified School District a sense of respect and honor. Students will measure you by your commitment to excellence and your willingness to go the extra mile.

Thanks again.

Charles T. Ramsey, Esq.
School Board Member
West Contra Costa
Unified School District
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What you have here is the Cornell University Summer College troop of 2010. We are a group of seven; representing the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) of California through the Ivy League Connection (ILC). Thanks to the ILC, we have been given the chance of a lifetime to make our mark on the East Coast and take summer classes at the prestigious Cornell University.

There are three juniors and four sophomores in our little brigade. Jacky Lares, Beilul Naizghi, and Christopher Habash are from Hercules High School and will be studying under Professor Reneta McCarthy in the "Hotel Operations Management: Tactics for Profitability" course. Andrew Woo, Andrew Gonzales, Alex Elms, and Wing So are from Pinole Valley High School and will be taking the course of "Freedom and Justice: The Law in Theory and Practice", under Professor Isaac Kramnick.  

By being part of the Ivy League Connection, we are essentially appointed ambassadors for our district, ready to absorb all that we will learn, see, and experience during our time on the East Coast and have it ready to bring back to people at home. In addition to this, we are also students ready to take on the rigors of summer classes at Cornell, to prove that yes, WCCUSD students can and will succeed. We are ready to take on this new and exciting challenge.  

So what will happen during in the three weeks that we shall be on the other side of the country? What will we see 2,400 miles away from home? What will we learn from there? And what will we bring back? Join us and find out! We invite you to our "2010 Ivy League Connection at Cornell" blog so you, too, can follow us on our life-changing journey to Ithaca, New York...  