Programs

This 10-week Afro-American Art curriculum introduces students to the rich legacy of Black artists in the United States, exploring how art reflects cultural identity, historical experience, and social change.

Program Summary (S.T.E.A.M. Program): Participants will study influential movements—from the Harlem Renaissance to Afrofuturism—and engage with iconic artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald and more. Each week includes hands-on artmaking activities and thoughtful discussions designed to inspire creativity, critical thinking, and personal expression.

Weekly Curriculum Outline:

Week 1: Introduction to Afro-American Art
Students explore key moments in Afro-American art history and create a timeline highlighting artists and movements that shaped the cultural narrative.

Week 2: African Roots and Influence
Students examine traditional African art and create sculptures or masks inspired by African heritage and spiritual themes.

Week 3: Harlem Renaissance
Through research and presentations, students learn how Harlem Renaissance artists used art to define a new cultural identity.

Week 4: Civil Rights Era
Students create protest posters while learning how artists used their work to support civil rights and advancement of equality for all.

Week 5: Black Feminist Art
Students analyze themes of identity, race, and gender through the work of pioneering Black women artists and create personal self-portraits.

Week 6: Contemporary Afro-American Art
Students study modern artists and contribute to a collaborative mural that reflects current themes of representation and empowerment.

Week 7: Art and Social Justice
Students plan and implement a small-scale community art project focused on activism and change.

Week 8: Afrofuturism
Through multimedia art, students explore futuristic visions of Black identity and create their own Afrofuturist works.

Week 9: Community Engagement and Art
Students learn about the role of art in community empowerment and visit a local community-based art initiative.

Week 10: Culminating Project and Exhibition
Students complete a final project and present their artwork in a community showcase celebrating their growth and creative voice.

The Drone Education Program meets two days a week for ninety minutes. This hands-on program runs for 12 weeks to 6 months, teaching students to build, code, and fly drones.

(S.T.E.A.M. Program) The Education Drone Program is an After School Program and Summer Camp. The Program would be most effective if it is at least a 12 week program, but it can go on as long as being a six month program depending on what the objective/outcome is desired.

Each week, we provide training involving:

• Research
• Drone activity
• Building a drone
• Science of flight
• Flight safety
• Flight safety research

Introduction to programming, coding activities, advanced coding, have the students create a course, practice piloting, showcase, and drone activity.

The influence of the Education Drone Program should awaken interest in Aviation, Coding Engineering, Technology, Robotics & Mathematics through drones. Our goal is to enhance the STEM teaching and learning experience through technology and competition.

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S.T.E.A.M. Ahead Drone Introduction

Program Components:

Introduction

• Why drones?
• Drone research activity
• Learn about the drone components
• Activity

Build

• Build and update the drones
• Science of flight

Fly

• Science of flight
• Flight safety & flight safety research activity
• Connect the drones with "free flight mini"
• Flight activity

Code

• Intro to Programming
• Coding activities
• Advanced coding challenges

Preliminary

• Have students create a course practicing piloting and coding skills
• Prepare for the showcase

Showcase and Drone Olympics

• Relay race
• Drone programming challenge
• Drone build off
• Engineering notebook
• Drone Design
• Live presentation
• Video presentation

Each participant will receive the FAA Trust Training through an authorized testing administrator for Trust. The Recreational UAS Safety Test of completion will be given to each participant who passes 100% of the test. The TRUST Certification is only permitted for recreational flyers operating under the exception for limited recreational operations of unmanned aircraft (Title 49 of the United States Code (49 U.S.C.) § 44809).

COPE 4 LIFE is a cognitive behavioral program designed around the Trans-Theoretical Approach Model which uses variables to help change behaviors by measuring the processes or stages that a person moves through life.

The George L Cannon II House of H.O.P.E. has a 12-week workshop for youth ages 13-19 yrs old using the COPE 4 LIFE curriculum that encourages and empowers our girls through workshops featuring:

• The newest proven techniques to modify deviant behavior
• Cognitive Therapeutic groups in lesson plan format
• Proven problem-solving skills/techniques
• Qualified caring and dedicated staff
• Family Development Plan / After Care Plan
• Screens for Possible Cognitive Processing and Mental Health Problems
• Human trafficking awareness
• Finance
• Domestic Violence

Cyber Security Pre-Apprentice Program aims to enhance diversity and representation of minorities within the tech industry.

The George L Cannon House of H.O.P.E. (GLC-HOPE) Cyber Security Pre-Apprentice Program aims to enhance diversity and representation of minorities within the tech industry.

This initiative focuses on Philadelphia students that matriculate from the Philadelphia School District who desire to embark a non-traditional path aside from college, providing them with hands-on-training, mentorship, and industry recognized certifications.

Through a combination of classroom instruction and on-the-job experience, participants will gain critical skills that will prepare them for a lucrative career in Cyber Security.

The program also emphasizes support services, such as career counseling and networking opportunities, to ensure participants successfully transition into the workforce and contribution to a more inclusive tech community.

Stephanie teaches our youth to have good manners and excellent interpersonal skills that will allow them to be successful in life. Our youth will leave with the ability to handle themselves in any social setting with confidence, poise, and grace.

GLC II House of H.O.P.E. Etiquette and Leadership Training with Stephanie Daniels is amazing! Stephanie teaches our youth to have good manners and great interpersonal skills that will allow them to be successful in life.

This character education and personal development program provides social etiquette training which helps build self-confidence and respect for others. Our teen classes are designed to be both fun and educational. Our youth will leave with the ability to handle themselves in any social setting with confidence, poise and grace.

We believe implementing proper etiquette skills in everyday life should be a habit for everyone—including adolescents.

Teen Etiquette and Leadership Training

3 weeks on Saturday training program:

• Introducing Yourself to Others
• Good Conversational Skills
• Proper Table Manners
• Dining Skills Formal & Informal
• Table Setting
• Fashion/Looking your Best/Skin Care
• Poise, Posture & Body Language
• Telephone Etiquette – Cell Phone Manners
• Good Manners at Home and in Public and more…

Certificate of Completion Award and Dinner

Job Readiness Program teaches teenagers how to complete cover letters, resumes, and a variety of other must-have skills that they will need to succeed at whatever career path they choose.

Participants will complete:

• A cover letter
• A resume
• Develop an elevator Pitch
• Career Assessment
• Mock Interview

Learning Objectives

At the end of the program participants will:

• Have an opportunity to learn about various career paths that may be of interest to them
• Develop a strategy for their own job search
• Learn what the soft skills that employers are looking for and ways to develop those soft skills

The (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely) S.M.A.R.T Girls Program teaches young women self-reliance, helping them avoid detrimental behaviors and improve lifestyle choices through weekly two-hour sessions over ten weeks.

Program Summary: The S.M.A.R.T Girls Program teaches young women self-reliance, how to avoid detrimental behaviors and improve lifestyle choices. Each topic is one day a week 90 minute session for ten weeks. The program will provide workshops with hands-on activities and discussions.

Program Topics:

• Financial Literacy
• Health & Wellness
• College Prep
• Gun Violence
• Entrepreneurship
• Bullying and Sexuality

The goal of the program is to build confidence, courage, character and respect for others.

Steam is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking.

STEAM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math, is an interdisciplinary approach that helps students succeed in their future careers.

STEAM programs aim to teach students innovation, critical thinking, and the application of engineering or technology in imaginative designs or creative approaches to real-world problems, while building on students' mathematical and scientific foundations.

35 weeks of hands-on STEAM activities

Module 1 – Introduction to STEM/STEAM (science & methods)

Goals:
Apply and document an engineering design process measured by identifying criteria and constraints, making representations, testing and evaluation, and refining the design as needed to construct a product or system that solves a problem.

Deliverables:

• Students will apply the scientific method and solve a problem
• Students will describe the different STEAM disciplines

Module 2 – The Future & Career Opportunities In Transportation

Goals:

• Students will learn about transportation management and the job of a traffic manager
• Students will learn about distribution centers, warehouses, and plant locations, and how things happen before packages are delivered to the consumer
• Students will explore how various current issues affect the future of transportation
• Students will explore a career in transportation

Module 3 – Road Trip

Goals:

• Students will learn what map legends are used for
• Students will learn how to locate information to plan a trip via car, bus, plane, or train
• Students will learn to measure mileage using the key given on the map
• Students will learn to work cooperatively with team members to complete a task
• Students will learn what goes into planning a road
• Students will learn how to develop a logical, reasonable itinerary
• Students will learn to communicate thoughts clearly and effectively
• Students will learn to create graphs or charts displaying the cost of travel and embed graphs in a written presentation
• Students will learn to write a persuasive essay

Module 4 – Product & Delivery

Goals:

• Students will learn how to understand different modes of transportation
• Students will explore geospatial technology using interactive maps
• Students will explore fuel-consumption data
• Students will learn to describe intermodal transportation
• Students will learn to create a map showing the route of a product from origin to final destination
• Students will learn to determine whether a route using the right turn philosophy is fuel-efficient
• Students will learn to identify factors contributing to variations in fuel consumption
• Students will explore the use of geospatial technologies for route planning
• Students will learn how to identify factors involved in efficient urban route planning
• Students will explore the use of geospatial technologies, a rapidly growing sector with numerous employment opportunities
• Students will develop interstate routes for trucks delivering goods to distribution centers
• Students will learn to identify factors involved in interstate route planning

Module 5 – Movement of International Shipments

Goals:

• Students will learn to analyze the consequences of an economic decision
• Students will learn to find the best economic decision by evaluating the alternatives
• Students will learn to describe the influence of market economies through cost savings
• Students will learn to analyze economic decisions and risks when selling internationally
• Students will explore the role of financial institutions related to transactions
• Students will learn to analyze information and identify the use of documents in a transaction
• Students will learn to analyze economic decisions made when shipping
• Students will learn to analyze the economic consequences for each mode as they interact with one another
• Students will learn to identify cause-and-effect relationships in the shipping and warehousing industries
• Students will learn from the customer's viewpoint, compare and contrast the needs of the customer
• Students will be aware of government rules and regulations, among other things