Excerpted from the Casper Journal, April 26, 2011
Jennifer Grooms addresses students and their families and friends while their college mentors look on at the Help Yourself graduation on April 20.
“It’s big college students working with smaller college students” is how Marilyn Lojo explained the Help Yourself Academy to parents and family members gathered April 20 to see their grade school students graduate from this year’s Academy.
Lojo is an aide who meets the third through fifth grade students — who were nominated by their teachers to participate in the program — at a bus stop once a week for a ride to the intensive but fun science and math program in its second year at Casper College.