ATTENTION SENIOR/RISING SENIOR FAMILIES! May 28th 6pm - What to Expect the First Year of College - Family Engagement Workshop!

ATTENTION SENIOR/RISING SENIOR FAMILIES! May 28th 6pm - What to Expect the First Year of College - Family Engagement Workshop!

The Parent Association has partnered with us to host our last Annual Family Engagement Workshop of the school year.

“What to Expect the First Year of College”

Tuesday, May 28th at 6pm, 5th fl. Student Café

We invite seniors and their parents & guardians to join us for this valuable panel discussion and special presentation. 

Parents/guardians of juniors would also benefit, and we encourage them to come with their rising seniors as they contemplate colleges together.

Refreshments will be served, and simultaneous translation will be provided in Chinese!

Special guest, Christopher Rim from Command Education along with two of his mentors will discuss how to make the best use of resources on campus and preparing for internships as soon as after freshman year. They will interact with our panel of Alumni students and parents returning to Stuy to share their transition, experiences and advice and answer your questions.

Stuyvesant Alumni Panel                                              Alumni Parent Panel

Sammie Paul ’18 - Carnegie Mellon                                 Helen Feuer ’17 – Harvard

Pallab Saha ’18 - University of Michigan                         Isabella Goldmints ’03 & ’18 – Caltech, Cambridge

Eugene Thomas ‘18 – Yale                                            Alex Shafran ’18 – Northeastern

Alan Zhou ’18 - Columbia

Special guest, Christopher Rim majored in Psychology at Yale University. He was born and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey, where he attended the Academies at Englewood, a public magnet school. In high school, he founded a tutoring company and then an international nonprofit, which led him to meet Lady Gaga and serve on the board of her foundation. At Yale, he worked as a research assistant at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and interned at Facebook, working on their education initiative. In college, he began doing education consulting out of his dorm room, growing Command Education from the ground up. After graduation, he moved the company into their offices in midtown Manhattan and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education. He is frequently featured in news sources for his expertise in education, in outlets including Fox5 Good Day New York, CNBC Power Lunch, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Helen O'Brien majored in English and Japanese at Williams College. At Command Education, she works as a senior mentor and their head of operations.

Stephanie Paloscio majored in psychology at Princeton University. At Command Education, she works as a senior mentor and the head of their athletic recruitment program.