2024 - 2025 Events and Activities
College Visits
Participating Schools: Please contact our office if you would like us to schedule and coordinate a campus visit to Western Michigan University or any Michigan college or university of interest at (269) 387-3366 or @email. We can host up to two college visit per GEAR UP high school; preferably one in the fall and one in the spring (Dates to be determined by school).
- October 30, 2024: WMU GEAR UP hosts college visits for MSU GEAR UP participants at Western Michigan University
- October 31, 2024: WMU GEAR UP hosts college visits for MSU GEAR UP participants at Western Michigan University
- December 6, 2024: GEAR UP Fennville High School at Western Michigan University
- February 20, 2025: GEAR UP Hartford High School at Grand Valley State University
- March 21, 2025: GEAR UP Hartford High School at Ferris State University
Tutoring
- Tutoring at Kalamazoo Central High School on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the school library, from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Tutoring sessions will begin Tuesday, September 24, 2024 and will continue until April 2025. Tutoring at Kalamazoo Central is a collaborative effort with the Office of Pre-College Programming and Upward Bound.
In-School Activities
- August 21, 2024: GEAR UP at Hartford HS Back to School Bash
- Week of September 23 - 27, 2024: National GEAR UP Week! GEAR UP at Kalamazoo Central HS
- October 3, 2024: GEAR UP at Hartford HS Parent Teacher Conferences
- October 8, 2024: GEAR UP at Fennville HS Parent Teacher Conferences
- October 9, 2024: GEAR UP at Kalamazoo Central HS Parent Teacher Conferences
- January - April 2025: GEAR UP school drives for senior nominations to Michigan Student AID (SSGO) and Michigan Education Trust (MET) award opportunities
Student Leadership and Career Activities
- February 28, 2025: GEAR UP hosts Schools to Tools Career Mobile Bus at Benton Harbor HS
- March 2025: DAPCEP STEM Day (Collaborative event with DAPCEP and GVSU GEAR UP)
- March 7 - 9, 2025: GEAR UP students at MI-CAPP Student Leadership Summit
- April 11, 2025: GEAR UP students at "Careers Across Hospital" event, Ascension Borgess Hospital (collaborative effort with Western Regional Community Consortium, Michigan Area Health Education Center)
- April 25, 2025: GEAR UP students at "Skilled Hands: Exploring Clinical Careers in Sutures, Casting, and Phlebotomy!" event (collaborative effort with Western Regional Community Consortium, Michigan Area Health Education Center)
Summer Program
- June 23 - 26, 2025: College Tour by charter bus, outside of the state of Michigan.
- July 28 - 31, 2025: College Tour by charter bus, outside of the state of Michigan.
More information coming in December 2024 on our 'Summer Programs' page.