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AT&T Sends Santa to Surprise YES Prep Seniors

December 20, 2011 by Brittany Baize

On Wednesday of last week, ten YES Prep seniors headed to KIPP High School to represent YES Prep at a check presentation. They joined ten KIPP seniors to receive $10,000 in gifts for our two schools from AT&T. While smiling for the camera, they were surprised to see Santa enter the room with a large bag of presents! Santa passed out twenty wrapped boxes to the students.

As the gifts were passed down, J.J. Romero Cabrero was guessing what could be inside. "I thought the gift was a book." As the wrapping paper came off, the students realized AT&T had surprised them each with a Samsung tablet to take to college. Cabrero said, "Then I realized I could use this tablet to read a lot of books!" The students were thrilled and grateful for AT&T's holiday generosity to each individual

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1,000 Words: Literacy and Art

November 11, 2011 by Tara Alcancia

The YES Prep Fine Arts 3^rd Annual Visual Arts exhibition, 1,000 Words: Literacy and Art, opens next Wednesday, November 16^th at the Houston Public Library – Central Location (Downtown). The exhibition is on view until Saturday, December 31.

1,000 Words: Literacy and Artincludes art by 6^th through 12^th grade students from YES Prep Public Schools. Middle school and high school students from YES Prep Brays Oaks, East End, Gulfton, North Central, Southeast, and Southwest participated in this visual arts exhibition. To coincide with the art exhibition being held at the Houston Public Library, students created art through a variety of mediums that relates to literacy. The young artists learned about artists that integrate text and connect to literacy in their work, and they explored

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Gulfton Art Students Explore History through Portraits

October 26, 2011 by Lara Heiberg

For the past few weeks, YES Prep Gulfton High School students have been engaged in a rather new experience for many: creating art. Art I is a new course on the Gulfton campus, but the Force has already proven to themselves and all who see the student samples that what they lack in experience, they make up for in drive.

Gulfton students have been learning the techniques involved in drawing from photos and how to draw the face. With value studies and grid systems clearly mastered, students were given a face to draw. After a thoughtful character study, brush, pen and ink were used to create the portrait. Some of the results are here for you to see. While some more accurately depict the photo the student was given, all of the projects were successful in their own ways. Pride and a touch

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YES Prep Southwest Named Blue Ribbon School

September 20, 2011 by Chris Claflin

YES Prep Southwest was officially announced as a 2011 Blue Ribbon School this past week. The Department of Education awards the Blue Ribbon distinction to schools that serve as a national model and have dramatically increased student performance.

This award is based on five years of strong academic achievement at YES Prep Southwest. We join YES Prep North Central as the second YES Prep campus to win this award and will definitely not be the last. Any success this campus has been fortunate enough to experience has come on the backs of the YES Prep system as a whole collaborating, sharing resources and ideas, innovating and creating change together.

If we were a stand-alone campus in a traditional district or a single charter campus our efforts would have been focused on so many

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YP Brays Oaks Visits University of Houston for It’s Second Model United Nations Competition

April 08, 2011 by Sarah Straub

yes prep brays oaks students in model UN March 30, 2011 is a day that should go down in YES Prep history. Twelve students from YES Prep Brays Oaks’ campus travelled to the University of Houston to participate in their second Model UN competition. Representing Spain, Argentina, India and Qatar, these students have given up their Fridays for the past couple of months in anticipation of this competition. These students also had the privilege to hear from the Honorable Donna M. Blair, Minister Counselor of the Senior Foreign Service. She has served as Consul General in Nigeria, Mexico, Kenya, Venezuela, Ghana, Spain, Argentina and Hong Kong. She has worked in the State Department in the Bureau of African Affairs, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the Bureau of Human Resources. She spoke about the opportunities that