Get Real Academy

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Anne Terese “Terry” Comiskey Anne Terese “Terry” Comiskey (Abbatemarco) passed away peacefully on Saturday May 11th, 2024. Terry was born in Brooklyn, to the late John Abbatemarco and Anne McCaffrey and grew up in …

Our Get Real Academy (GRA) Planning Committee had to put our “out-of-the-box” thinking caps on this year.

Our March 4, 2021 event went VIRTUAL using Zoom!

We had quality speakers providing workshops that were once again well received by the female students & their counselors.

Please read further in the article written by our District Director, Bev Gomer. It can be found on pages 12 & 13 of the attached Soroptimist Founder Region Newsletter.

Check out the March issue of the Founder Region Newsletter. There are lots of conference reminders inside!

https://mcusercontent.com/bf14608c92b1b7e058bc1219f/files/b484af2a-c7ff-4fdf-92b5-140156ca6937/ApprovedNewsletterMarchkc.pdf

The Get Real Academy (GRA) planning committee held our wrap up meeting using Zoom. The 2020 event was very successful with 200 female high school students and 50+ volunteers 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

We’re now planning for future Get Real Academies!

“If she can dream it - she can be it!" is the motto of Soroptimist International's Dream It, Be It program known as the “Get Real Academy” in Contra Costa County, California.

Today we had our 2020 “Get Real Academy (GRA).”

Our day-long life skills conference for senior high school girls is organized and funded by the following Soroptimist Clubs: 24-680 (Walnut Creek), Antioch, Diablo Vista, Martinez, Pittsburg, and The Delta.

These six Soroptimist Clubs raise approximately $25,000 every year in order to provide 200 senior high school girls with this day-long conference which includes breakfast & lunch. There is no cost to students or to the high schools they attend.

Workshop subjects include: Preparing for a Job Interview, Mock Job Interviews, Resiliency, Money Management, Women’s Health, and Violence Awareness. Local business women and Soroptimist members donate their time and talent to lead these life-skills workshops.

We had two lunchtime speakers this year. Christine Loscalzo, Special Agent with the FBI whose presentation is well received every year and Delphine Metcalfe Foster, Past National Commander, Disabled American Veterans.

Here are pictures from our Get Real Academy held today, March 5, 2020 at the Concord Hilton, Concord, California.

Soroptimist members from SI Antioch and SI The Delta busy assembling binders for the “Get Real Academy” (GRA) set for next Thursday, March 5, 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at the Concord Hilton.

Soroptimist Planning Committee started working out details for our March 5, 2020 Get Real Academy, a Dream It Be It program.

Fun times getting the work done!

Soroptimist International of 24-680
Soroptimist International of Antioch
Soroptimist International of Diablo Vista
Soroptimist International of Martinez
Soroptimist International of Pittsburg
Soroptimist International of the Delta

Soroptimist International of Antioch

“If she can dream it - she can be it!" is the motto of Soroptimist International's Dream It, Be It program known as the “Get Real Academy” in Contra Costa County, California.

The Get Real Academy (GRA) is a day-long life skills conference for senior high school girls. GRA is an annual event normally held the first week in March. It is organized and funded by the following Soroptimist Clubs: 24-680 (Walnut Creek), Antioch, Diablo Vista, Martinez, Pittsburg, and The Delta.

These six Soroptimist Clubs raise approximately $25,000 every year in order to provide 200 senior high school girls with this day-long conference which includes breakfast & lunch. There is no cost to students or to the high schools they attend.

Workshop subjects include: Before & After a Job Interview, Mock Job Interviews, Getting a Job & Keeping It, Money Management, Women’s Health, and Violence Awareness. Local business women and Soroptimist members donate their time and talent to lead these life-skills workshops. Our lunchtime speaker is a female Special Agent with the FBI whose presentation is well received every year!

Here are pictures from our Get Real Academy held March 7, 2019 at the Concord Hilton, Concord, California.

We are counting down to GET REAL ACADEMY 2019 at 47 days and counting until Thursday, March 7, 2019! If you are a high school senior girl in Central and East Contra Costa County check with your school counselor for up to date information.

Today is International Girls Day!