Norfolk, Va. — Norfolk State University’s Virginia Beach Higher Education Center in partnership with Virginia Beach City Public School system will host the second year of the Spartan Prep Academy, August 7-11. The initiative is designed to promote pre-collegiate awareness by encouraging, educating, and empowering minority students.  The program will consist of approximately 80 rising freshmen and sophomores at the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, located at 1881 University Drive.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools will provide transportation, books, supplies, and teacher resources for the academy.  NSU faculty and staff will coordinate motivational speakers, campus tours, and cultural tours.  The freshman class will concentrate its activities on goal setting, time management, college survival skills and preparing for high school, and tour a college campus. The sophomore class will continue its studies from the freshman year and add career interviewing techniques and dress, career research, a cultural tour in Richmond, Virginia, social etiquette, test taking skills, and peer mentoring. Both groups will start the week with a motivational speaker and conclude the week with an open house and presentation. Both groups will also participate in college preparatory activities on various Saturdays throughout the school year. 

The Spartan Academy, whose mission is to provide fundamental support and preparation for higher education pursuits to first generation Norfolk Sate University bound students, will also introduce participants to careers and educational opportunities, college life, continuing education opportunities, education services, and Norfolk State University.

For more information, call Dana Singleton at (757) 368-4150.