The Sewickley Valley Community Fund has made a grant to Breakthrough Pittsburgh, a six-week summer program for students from throughout the Pittsburgh area. The grant will support five students from the Quaker Valley School District. Students join the program as seventh graders and return each summer until they graduate high school.
Breakthrough Pittsburgh, held at Sewickley Academy, offers college bound programs with one to one teacher-student mentoring, tutoring and college tutoring. Student teachers working under the supervision of teachers at Sewickley Academy handle the instruction. The students develop a relationship with the program that lasts throughout the year. The goal is to prevent “summer academic slide” and prepare the students for college. Often these students are the first college graduates in their families.
