AH: For those that don’t know what Upward Bound is, can you explain it?
RA: Upward Bound is a program that prepares you for college and your future.
AH: Is that a College of Charleston program?
RA: Yes
AH: And who runs that?
RA: Mr. [Larry] Lewis
AH: And is there a local contact at, here at St. John’s [High School]
RA: Yes
AH: What is her name?
RA: You can contact Ms. Smith I guess, if you cannot contact him, you can contact her I guess
AH: Okay, how did you get involved in Upward Bound?
RA: You have to be, not referred, what is the word? I am going to use referred. You have to be referred to, by a person who sees potential, who sees potential in the student in the future.
AH: Okay, so what kinds of activities do you guys do?
RA: We have tutoring; we have volunteer work around downtown, around the College of Charleston. We also stay on campus, one whole month to have the college experience, for free, it is free. And we also travel to places such as New York, Florida, DC, Georgia, and we also have international visits like go to France, Italy, and Japan, sometimes and also we went on a five day cruise to the Bahamas. That was fun and to Newport [Rhode Island], that was awesome and that’s it.
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