UAB MiniCamp 2019: Student Perspectives
In May, we welcomed over 400 GEAR UP Alabama students to UAB’s campus for our second year of UAB MiniCamps. MiniCamps are designed to simulate a “day in the life” of a UAB student. Rather than have us tell you about their time here, we decided to use...
A Volunteer’s Perspective on Black Belt Fridays
My name is Grace Whitmire and I am a senior at UAB pursuing my Bachelors Degree in Early Childhood/Elementary Education. I changed my major to Education a little over a year ago and it has been one of the best decisions of my life. I first heard about GEAR UP Alabama...
Junior Year: Learning New Things and Seeing the Bigger Picture
My junior year of high school was an amazing time for me to grow as a person and also learn new things about the world around me. To kick off this year I dived into my second year as a majorette for the Sidney Lanier Marching Poets band. From the time we marched in to...
The Opportunities of This Year
This past school year, I have gotten a tremendous amount of opportunities that have been beneficial to me. Some of those opportunities include: being a GEAR UP Alabama Ambassador, becoming a dual enrollment student at Tuskegee University, becoming an FBLA member, and...
