2015-2016 Enrollment OCEAN ACADEMY Social Enterprise, Technology, Innovation, Development (SEaTIDe) INVITATION FOR 2015-2016 Adaly, Form I ENROLLMENT “Join us at OA where You don’t have to leave the island to get a world- you will be class education . . . challenged, have fun, and solve the • 5 International Awards, 11 National Awards important problems • 17 International Partnerships like we did with Hire Belize.” And join the school that offers more opportunities . . . Johnny, Form II • Academic Education & Skills for Employment “I did not plan to • Highly Qualified Faculty continue after primary school. Now, I love • Personal Education Plans high school. I do 3-D • Full Academic Offering of CXC (for CXC scholarships) architecture, fly fishing, • CXC Scholarship Track, “Second and I spoke on national television.” Track” • Expert Belizean & Lily, Form III International Mentors “OA is preparing me • Day Shadows for success at St. John’s with CXC prep • Apprenticeships, Internships and Applied Learning • Small Classes, Personal skills such as Attention organization, initiative, and communications.” •Students Can Earn School Fees

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PERSONALIZED EDUCATION Personal Education Plan (PEP) No two students are alike. We work with every student and their parent to create a personal plan based on the student’s and parent’s goals.

Personal Interests, Strengths, Passion We spend time figuring out what gets each student excited. Then, we help the student choose An Option for Each Child the paths and opportunities that will help him/her reach his/her goals. For example, students interview CXC Scholarship Track - Emphasizes doctors, lawyers, and musicians; others build mobile preparing for CXC while gaining real-world apps for phones or design homes. experience as apprentices and developing Personal Challenges, Obstacles skills for employment. Equally important, students identify weaknesses and obstacles and make plans to overcome them. For “Second Track” - Emphasizes real-world example, students get extra math tutoring, find experience and developing skills for scholarships, or attend counseling. employment while building core academic Setting Goals skills such as reading, writing, and math. Students (with help from parents and OA counselor) set goals and the plan is shared with all *Students may move between tracks. teachers. Goals are reviewed and updated. Career “Shopping List” We guide the student (and parent) to create a career shopping list: what careers would be a good fit for you? Then, we set up times for students to observe a person in the career (day shadows) and if they like it, real hands-on experience working in the career (apprenticeships/internships). It is just as important for a student to learn that he/she does not like a career, so he/she does not prepare for the wrong path.

Tertiary (Sixth Form/University) “Shopping List” Students learn about a career in In the PEP, students and parents list the schools and programs that Law in areas such as criminal defense, contracts, and rights for interest them. We talk with Sixth Form and University Department the poor. Chairs to learn about their courses and plan campus visits. By choosing a path that is the right fit (instead of where a friend is going, or where an uncle went), students have a much better chance of success.

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FOUR KEY AREAS 1. Social Enterprise Social enterprise uses business to solve social needs. OA has won two international awards in: 1. Kayaking, fly fishing, and biking from UNICEF/Beyond Sport (competed with 350 organizations from 70 countries), 2. Fish with Purpose, Best Business Plan in North America and the Caribbean from Teach a Man to Fish in the U.K. (1250 schools from 93 countries participated).

Ideas Come to Life Award-Winning Kayak with Purpose When young people are part of starting and growing their Students learn important job skills such own businesses, they are learning how to turn their ideas into as how to make eye-contact with an adult, something that can make money. tell interesting stories, and speak standard English. Meanwhile, they earn school fees More than 50 Belizean and International Expert and act as eco-ambassadors for Mentors in more than 20 Careers international visitors. Workshop training When experts mentor students one-on-one or in small includes kayak strokes, rescues, first aid, and groups, the students learn more about reaching their success communication skills. Other Ocean Academy than any book can teach them. social enterprises include Bike Students Earn School Fees with Purpose, Fish with Purpose, Dinner with Purpose, Students earn money for their pockets and money toward and Culinary Herb Sales. their school fees. 2. Technology: Coding & Robotics Students at OA are learning the newest technologies: computer coding robotics, graphic design and GIS drones. They are learning that they can create the “magic” behind the computers and tools they are using.

Computer Software & Tools Technology changes every day. The students are learning how to find, download, and use new software programs in their areas of interest (architecture, art, engineering, etc.) that make them stand apart from other young people.

OA Alumnus, Jamal Boiton, won a International Projects Mobile App development Students work with mentors across the world to build new technologies competition. such as an underwater robot or an Adobe film.

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OCEAN ACADEMY’S SEATIDE 3. Innovation Innovation is all about “creating” some new thing or idea or “improving” an existing thing or idea. OA classes and projects push students to find their OWN solutions. The Winners of the Belize High School Innovation Challenge first step to OA students competed with 15 high schools from across Belize innovation, is District to solve youth unemployment. Ocean Academy students won getting passionate with "Hire Belize", a mobile app they created to easily connect youth about something. with employers and customers. The students worked together as a We guide students to find that team to brainstorm the idea, create the technology, and present to a passion in their Personal Education panel of judges and audience members. Plans (PEPs) which begin at the time of registration and continue Most Creative until graduation. and Innovative Project 2015 4. Development The Environmental Ocean Academy’s motto is Club competed in “Preserving our Heritage, Creating the National our Future.” Students work on Sagicor S.T.E.M. national and international projects Visionaries to protect the sea, the island, and Challenge with the “old "The Caye ways” of Caulker Mangrove Action Caye Plan" that Caulker . . . includes while replanting learning mangroves in the southern part of the island and developing an how to interactive mobile app so that visitors can use GPS coordinates to grow the visit mangrove replanting sites. Then, they can take their own photos island in ways that are good and and load them onto the app. sustainable for all.

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HIGHLY QUALIFIED FACULTY Dr. Corinth Morter- Lewis Dr. Lewis is Ocean Academy's school counsellor (Thursdays and Fridays) and Professor and OA's faculty are highly trained Faculty qualifications include: President professionals who are dedicated to 1 Doctorate Degree in Psychology of Education Emeritus of the academic and personal success for every 2 Master's Degrees in Education University of Belize. At OA, she student. Our teachers are life-long 2 Bachelor's Degrees in Secondary Education counsels students and families, teaches Life learners, and every month they study in 2 Bachelor's Degrees in Teaching Subjects (+1 Skills classes, and conducts Personal Teacher Professional Development in progress) Education Plan interviews. Dr. Lewis leads workshops. 3 Associate's Degrees a Parenting Workshop Series every month.

Courses Include: English, Math, Integrated Science, Computer Science, Visiting Social Studies, Life Skills, Applied Learning, Entrepreneurship, Principles Professors of Business, Principles of Accounting, Human & Social Biology, Dr. Hawthorne, Georgia Geography, World History. Electives include: Scuba Diving (NAUI State University is one Certification), Fly Fishing, Kayaking, Carpentry, Drumming, Poetry, Art, of many visiting professors at OA. He Graphic Design, Guitar, Calligraphy, Marine Biology, Yoga, Basketball, teaches the students Beach Volleyball, Football and new ones every semester. Tutoring is free. about GIS drones and mapping.

Compared to traveling: Save $550 per month/$2,565 per year (and that is not including the cost of school fees).

COSTS AT COSTS OF TRAVELING OCEAN ACADEMY TO ANOTHER SCHOOL

Form I Form II Form III Form IV Daily Monthly Yearly

Yearly Water Taxi $15 $300 $2,625 $250 $250 $250 $250 Registration City Taxi $10 $200 $1,750

Yearly Fees $1,800 $2,000 $2,200 $2,400 Lunch $10 $200 $1,750

Total $35 $700 $4,565 Monthly Fees (*with Government $150* $170* $220 $240 *This is ONLY travel costs. School Fees are Subsidy) additional costs.

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CXC RESULTS & AWARDS

In 2014 - 2015 alone, CXC Results 2014 OA won . . . two Students earn two-year Associate’s StudentDegree scholarships, Excellence Certificates in Business studies and top grades in CXC exams. international awards, three CXC Exam Results 2014 national awards, and one District award (see pages 3-4) and more below . . .

Belize Department of Youth Services‘

National Youth Lidy & Evelio Yuma Jamal Jacqueline

Award for Six CXC passes = qualification for two- Six CXC passes = Top CXC grade (1) Top CXC grade (1) \HDUVFKRODUVKLSIRU$VVRFLDWH¶V'HJUHH qualification two- in Math & in Spanish. Environmentalism year scholarship for Integrated Science. CXC Certificate in Business Studies. $VVRFLDWH¶V'HJUHH Ocean Academy’s Aquatic Top CXC grade (1) in Spanish. Tourism Program was Lidy also earned top CXC grade (1) in recognized for developing English A. entrepreneurship skills of ecological ambassadors. This is the ninth award Education Showcase Theme received from Youth Ministry of Education selected OA’s theme, “Our Services over the last five Youth: Innovator’s Today; Changemakers years. Tomorrow” to use across Belize.

Ocean Guardian School with NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Grant to reduce single-use plastics on Caye Caulker by encouraging the use of reusable shopping bags.

U.S. State Department Central American Regional Students accepted the National Youth Award in Belize City. Ocean Security Initiative (CARSI). $95,000 USD grant. Academy competed with schools Three-year grant to support OA’s Aquatic Tourism program.

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