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Marilyn
Cruz, HISD’s Scarborough/Waltrip Feeder Pattern Executive
Principal, describes the Bridge Academy program, designed to
help elementary students transition into middle school.
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Beverly
Teal, Clifton Middle School Principal, welcomes parents and
students to the Bridge
Academy, where students spend four weeks
studying science, math and technology.
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Bridge
Academy Director Betty Johnson gives an overview of the Bridge
Program and the activities for the summer. Students are in
class from 8:00 to 2:30 every day for four weeks; every Friday
students take a field trip designed to extend and enrich their
classroom activities.
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Myah
Pickens and Shaye Smith register for the Bridge Academy. The
first science unit was forensic science and techniques applied
to a case of “dognapping.”
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Eric
Velasquez, Jehliel Celestine, and Matthew Skolaut review the
case prior to visiting the “crime scene” and collecting
evidence.
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“Crime
Scene Techs” Amanda Edwards and Bria Haynes collect samples of
an unidentified substance found at the scene of the dognapping.
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Clarence
Roberson, Matthew Walters, Kennedy Simmons, Alexander Tyska, and
Zachary Reece prepare ink samples from a ransom note and writing
samples for chromatography analysis.
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Mike
Gonzales, Josue Garcia, Luis Gonsalez, and Stephanie Estrello,
review chromatography results.
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Science
sleuths, Shaye Smith and Blake Jetton, examine dog and human
hair samples under a microscope.
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Jessica
Ramirez and Natalie Prieto log chromatography data into their
case notebooks.
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The Bridge
students took a field trip to the Museum of Natural Science.
Here, Alison Reyes, Andrew Blose, Uriel Hernandez, Antonio
Ramos, and Myah Pickens pan for “gold.”
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Every
Bridge student was given a geode. Andrew Blose watches as his
geode is cracked open at the museum’s Geopalooza Exhibit.
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Michael
Medrano, Jamie Pena, Caleb Parkman, and Blake Jetton set up for
a picnic at Hermann Park.
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Jaqueline
Aguilar and Rut Bustamante pose in front of an amethyst geode.
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Eric
Velasquez tests the mechanical advantage of a Class I Lever.
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Alexander
Quiroga explains the structure of hair to his classmate
“detectives.”
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Bridge
instructor Andrea Condell-Stewart explains chromatography to
Amanda Edwards, Bria Haynes, and Jocelyne Escoto. Other Academy
instructors included Harriet Newman, Tim Buck, Marcy Divinity,
Jeni Kung, and Corina Loo.
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