It is designed to encourage them to look at high school success as a real probability and as an expectation they have of themselves. We get to touch the lives of approximately 240 1st graders.
PALS work with a small number of students at their school.
They tell them a story about the frog who wanted to be a singer. It encourages having goals and doing what it takes to achieve them. Later, during the 1st graders visit Abilene High they eat lunch with PALS, watch science experiments, have picture taken with a grown up cap and gown to give them ownership of completing their education, an exhibition by ROTC, and take a tour of Abilene High. They are presented with a copy of the picture framed in a mat of an eagle. We work with them every other Wednesday.