Weekly Meeting – Advantage Lancaster

This past summer our Club committed $20,000 which was matched equally by the United Way of Lancaster County to support 12 agencies. These organizations programs for local youths to combat summer learning loss with enriching educational experiences. Each agency competed for our support with proposals that our Summer Youth Experience Committee chose as the best activity for improved learning in the selected youth.

This week’s program will highlight one of these programs, Advantage Lancaster, which provided education mentorship and experiential learning for 50 middle and high school students from the School District of Lancaster. The program operated five days a week from mid-June through the end of July using the facilities of Stevens College of Technology.  All students participated in English, Math and Science classes emphasizing hands-on learning, when possible, using different ecosystems in the area.

Participant attendance has been a consistent 100% over the years of the program’s existence.  The culminating event, each year, is a college visitation experience. This summer students visited University of Cincinnati and Xavier University in Ohio.

Tyrone “Ty” Bair is a native of Lancaster. He attended Washington, Hand (now Jackson) middle and McCaskey schools. He pursued his education at Heston College in Kansas and West Chester University where he completed his BS in Education degree specializing in Social Studies. He currently teaches 7^th grade Social Studies at Reynolds Middle School. Ty is a Founder of Advantage Lancaster which began in 2001, he has served as Director for 21 years.