WTOC, Savannah, Georgia, news, weather and sports | AASU and AT&T team up to help at risk students
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By WTOC Staff
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Armstrong Atlantic State University and the AT&T Foundation have teamed up to help at risk students in our area.
The $75,000 partnership will expose under achieving students with technology in hopes of keeping them in school.
Students will use a program called "Let the Games Begin".
Organizers hope the program will help these at risk students complete high school and go on to some form of higher education.
"This is a marvelous joining of public and private expertise and funding and we know that it will result in some great potential for students in our area and in our state," said AASU president Linda Bleicken.
The program will start in January of 2010.
Twenty students will be chosen from 3 local neighborhoods and they will be trained at the Woodville-Thompkins Technical Institute.
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