Grade:   7th-8th grades

Length:  1.5 hours/week
               for 10 wks

Cost:     Negotiable/dependent on 
             grant funding

 Lead-A-Way is a series of ten workshops for girls that focus on women leaders and leadership skills.     Approximately twenty    middle school girls meet in interactive sessions that explore basic leadership skills and in small groups work on projects that examine the lives of several different role model women.  This program takes place in your school and is taught by our trained facilitators.  API will work with you to select participants and coordinate a field trip to Paulsdale as part of the program.   

This program is supported with grants from:

Sponsoring a Fall 2012 Lead-A-Way program at West Deptford Middle School

The Southern New Jersey chapter of eWomen Network is sponsoring a Fall 2012 Lead-A-Way program at Sacred Heart School.

For girls

Girlblazers Summer Camp is a special, grant funded program that takes place in June.  API has a partnership with selected schools who bring their students to camp at Paulsdale. 

At the Girlblazers Summer Camp girls will learn the skills they need to become leaders in their school and community and will meet women who have blazed a trail for them.  This two-week morning camp includes a community service project, field trips, and sports and recreational activities.  The girls will have hands-on leadership experiences in group projects and individual activities.  The camp will begin with an introduction to Alice Paul and basic definitions of leadership.  Following this introduction, each camp session will contain an activity corresponding to both historic and contemporary women leaders.  The girls will take away from the camp an understanding of leadership in action and how that understanding can apply to their own lives.   

Grade:   10th-12th

Length:  1 hour

Cost:   $500 cost share
 (for up to 100 students)

Looking at Careers: Where Do I Go from Here? is an in-school workshop for high school girls and boys which features a panel of women leaders from various professions and offers opportunities for mentoring and on-the-job exposure to their professions.  API provides the panelists, program moderator, and career resources for participants.  Panelists are also available for mentoring opportunities.