WEBVTT 00:00:32.500 --> 00:00:35.000 our mission statement here at Curtis High School specifically 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.500 references the opportunity 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:40.000 for all those in our school Community 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.500 to achieve their fullest potential if we dig a 00:00:42.500 --> 00:00:45.000 little bit deeper into that mission statement 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.500 we aim for all of our students 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:50.000 to leave High School primed 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.500 for Success beyond their 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:55.000 experience here at Curtis High School whether 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.500 they choose to enroll in 00:00:57.500 --> 00:01:00.000 college or you choose 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.500 to go directly into a career or enlist 00:01:02.500 --> 00:01:05.000 in the military we want our 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.500 students to leave here with the skills 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:10.000 the knowledge and the competencies where 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.500 they have the confidence to go 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:15.000 about what what it is that they want to pursue 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.500 do Beyond High School uh and be 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:20.000 successful in their post-secondary careers 00:01:22.500 --> 00:01:25.000 Curtis nursing program actually 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.500 helps set up your future a lot especially 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:30.000 in the nursing program you have state-of-the-art Tech 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.500 technology to help you advance your career 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:35.000 I feel like there are so many opportunities that 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.500 are in the school the IB program and the foreign 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:40.000 exchange program are only really in this school 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.500 and no other High School within the island 00:01:42.500 --> 00:01:45.000 the software engineering program the CTE in 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.500 program is completely exclusive to Courtesy so 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:50.000 being 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.500 a law school even though we are large we have our 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:55.000 9 small learning communities we have our International 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.500 back and lawyer program diploma program as well as career 00:01:57.500 --> 00:02:00.000 path program we have our nursing program 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.500 I LPN as well as nursing assistant which is 1 of the top 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:05.000 programs in New York city so even though there's a large school 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.500 you can kind of find your Niche and what you like to 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:10.000 do you're supported in that group whether it's ibdp 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:12.500 CP nursing the 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:15.000 dance program or media studies 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.500 visual arts program Performing Arts programs so it is a 00:02:17.500 --> 00:02:20.000 large school but within a large school we have the 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.500 small learning communities where attention to details paid 00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:25.000 to you in terms of what your needs are what your wants are and 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.500 what's best for you in terms of how you can 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:30.000 succeed here at Curtis High School 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.500 we 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.500 have a tremendous staff 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:40.000 and if you looked over almost close to 50 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.500 staff members went to Curtis and graduated from 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:45.000 Curtis and have come back to support 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.500 future Curtis graduates in 00:02:47.500 --> 00:02:50.000 addition to that we have a built-in program 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.500 for our our athletes called the forward Pass Program 00:02:52.500 --> 00:02:55.000 where we're preparing to achieve and sustain 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.500 success where we're working with our student athletes every 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:00.000 day after school 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.500 before school during school to help them 00:03:02.500 --> 00:03:05.000 where they might need assistance in the academic 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.500 world it would be a great choice to 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:10.000 come to Curtis because they could also help you in 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.500 the long run not just now and they make sure you're 00:03:12.500 --> 00:03:15.000 a better person or a better man or female 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.500 High School freshman think that college is a really long 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:20.000 time away but before you know it you're a senior I 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.500 need to start thinking about college and 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:25.000 at that point it's really late so when 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.500 you're a High School freshman at Curtis High School we 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:30.000 give you the opportunity to learn about college 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.500 College is very early on you get the opportunity 00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:35.000 to meet with college Representatives usually we 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.500 have dozens of colleges that come during the fall 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:40.000 to meet with students to take speak 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.500 to them about their college and what they have to offer so 00:03:42.500 --> 00:03:45.000 you can start thinking about what colleges are 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.500 there um also we have college fairs 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:50.000 during the school year and um if the student 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.500 even has a question about college and and what 00:03:52.500 --> 00:03:55.000 it's about we are more than happy to 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.500 come and and help you talk about it and 00:03:57.500 --> 00:04:00.000 and discuss the uh opportunity 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.500 unities that are going to be out there for you when you are actually 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:05.000 applying 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:10.000 throughout High School I I wasn't exactly sure you know what 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.500 I wanted to pursue naturally I never 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:15.000 knew as I you know found out 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.500 what I was going to do in 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:20.000 the future and in college I decided 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.500 I should prepare and so you 00:04:22.500 --> 00:04:25.000 know the college office is a really really good asset 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.500 for students here and they pointed me towards 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:30.000 the scholarship called the Posse scholar 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.500 ship and uh through the posy 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:35.000 scholarship you know I was nominated and 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:37.500 I participated in a series of interviews so 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:40.000 I was a recipient of the policy scholarship 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.500 which is full tuition scholarship that allows me to 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:45.000 study at Connecticut College a full tuition scholarship 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.500 ship to you know a very prestigious school is 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:50.000 amazing it's an amazing opportunity and it's 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.500 definitely setting me you know on the right course 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:55.000 and uh the college office 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.500 also you know pairs me with internships 00:04:57.500 --> 00:05:00.000 that align with my uh prospective 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.500 major which is government so it's just an amazing asset 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:05.000 and you know student students use a utilize 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.500 it here every day there's a lot of tutoring services 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:10.000 that we have 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.500 that give us more opportunities to to engage 00:05:12.500 --> 00:05:15.000 with teachers and really expand our 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.500 our knowledge so that we're ahead of the game 00:05:17.500 --> 00:05:20.000 we have so many AP courses 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.500 and honors classes we also offer 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:25.000 college now which I take which happens 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:27.500 before the school day actually starts so 00:05:27.500 --> 00:05:30.000 that's really good because we earn college credits 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.500 from that as well they offer courses that are 00:05:32.500 --> 00:05:35.000 tailored to the student I know there's Sports exercise 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.500 in junior year that you're 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:40.000 able to take cuz I elective which me personally I'm going 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.500 to be interested in going to Kinesiology and 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:45.000 stuff like that so you can really take these 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.500 courses that you're taking now and they'll prepare you for college 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.500 Curtis 00:05:52.500 --> 00:05:55.000 High School is the only High School on sun Island that has an IB 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.500 Program we're actually only a handful of schools 00:05:57.500 --> 00:06:00.000 um that hasn't even in New York City 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.500 most of New York City schools that have IB are actually private 00:06:02.500 --> 00:06:05.000 schools so there's only a handful of public IB 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.500 schools 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:10.000 if you have a Curtis High School we teach them employability 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.500 and workability skills 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:15.000 that they could carry not only into their professional 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.500 career as noses but as life skills as well if 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:20.000 they had their license today they would have a job 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.500 no other school has the media that 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:25.000 we have okay nobody at the school produces a regular newspaper 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.500 no other school has an award-winning yearbook no 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.000 other school has a room dedicated with 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.500 with the latest software the latest technology I 00:06:32.500 --> 00:06:35.000 have 40 cameras 40 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.500 High SLR cameras in these drawers that 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:40.000 the students get Hands-On work on everything else so whatever 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.500 they use here is the same ones that they're using in the industry like 00:06:42.500 --> 00:06:45.000 oh I know how to do that this is the same camera I have used so 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.500 that's a big part of it 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.500 software engineering is exciting today 00:06:52.500 --> 00:06:55.000 because it's it's always been a rapidly evolving field 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.500 most of what we're doing here is is coding 00:06:57.500 --> 00:07:00.000 um that there's really 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.500 once they go into college and study computer science the the 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:05.000 opportunities will open up we also have a 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.500 class that is more focused on Hands-On 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:10.000 things like in robotics so I expect 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.500 some of my students to go more 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:15.000 into like robotics or engineering with the skills they 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.500 gain in this program 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.500 Curtis 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:25.000 has a really deep loving 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.500 and caring environment where I 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:30.000 think most students feel really safe 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.500 specially in the art studio I feel like drawing 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:35.000 and learning how to draw 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.500 is the foundation and I 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:40.000 think that all middle schoolers are with me on that 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.500 curse is an awesome school lot 00:07:47.500 --> 00:07:50.000 of opportunity out here we're 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.500 built to succeed in this school we work 00:07:52.500 --> 00:07:55.000 together as a team from all the teachers 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:57.500 working together down to the students 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.500 the unique experience at 00:08:02.500 --> 00:08:05.000 Curtis High School is that we 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.500 offer lots of Performing Arts courses obviously 00:08:07.500 --> 00:08:10.000 we offer dance we have different types 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.500 of music courses theater um 00:08:12.500 --> 00:08:15.000 chorus and 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.500 students can be in any house or any program 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:20.000 and have an opportunity to participate in 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.500 those classes 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:25.000 1 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.500 of the reasons I would tell you the truth Curtis High School the 00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:30.000 law program is going to provide you with obvious 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00:09:10.000 again has shaped me in ways that I'm forever 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.500 grateful for really