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Students of Color Achieving and Pursuing Excellence (SCAPE) club was founded at CCHS in 2019 with a mission to academically and socially support students of color in rigorous classes.
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tudent-led and striving for success, the Students of Color Achieving and Pursuing Excellence (SCAPE) club provides a space where students of BY LUCAS DONNELLY color can collaborate with and support one another Photographer socially and academically. BY EMILY COUCH The club was founded during the 2019-20 school Variety Staffer year by 2021 CCHS alumnus Kurali Grantham, a juBY CADENCE SCHAPKER nior at the time, and 2020 CCHS alumna Rosie Sykes, News Staffer who was a senior. The club was created with the help of the club's sponsor at the time, former CCHS school counselor Dr. Ashlee Holsey, and with help from math department teacher Nicole George, who is a current co-sponsor along with math department teacher Lashanda Young. "My reasoning behind founding SCAPE was to create a community of competition and support for students of color," Grantham said. "Especially (for) Black BY MAYA CLEMENT Beat Editor
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students, like myself, who have the potential to take and succeed in high rigor (Advanced Placement) and advanced courses at Clarke Central High School, but didn't feel the systemic support to take that risk, to step outside of their comfort zone and enroll in those classes." Upon Grantham’s graduation, he and Sykes reached out to current co-presidents of SCAPE, Makenna Mincey and Mckenna Ezekiel, CCHS juniors, about leading the club. "I'm proud of (Mincey and Ezekiel) for tapping into their own excellence and being motivated with all the other stuff that they do because they're very involved students. (They are) very passionate and very intelligent," Grantham said. SCAPE club meets on the first and fourth Thursday of every month in Young’s classroom for student-led discussions on various topics. According to George, SCAPE aims to give students of color access and support in furthering their academic achievements in advanced classes.
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