All posts pertaining to Rainier Scholars Tacoma
Each year, our fifth graders hike Rattlesnake Ledge together as a cohort. The hike is strenuous for 10–11-year-olds. Together, they cover over a thousand feet of elevation [..]
A tattered notebook that represents resilience. A dumbbell symbolic of three years of effort. A teddy bear to provide comfort and support. One by one, each person around the [..]
Copper Strategic Co-Founder Sara Morris interviews Jennifer Ward, Executive Director of Rainier Scholars – Tacoma.
Jennifer Ward, Tacoma Executive Director, sits down with CityLine to discuss Rainier Scholars – Tacoma and the work its doing in the community to support students of color [..]
This summer, Dr. James McLurkin has been leading Rainier Scholars’ Mini College engineering class at the University of Washington Tacoma campus. Armed with degrees from UC [..]
You’ve now been with Rainier Scholars for 15 years in total. How did you first learn about the organization? In 2003, I graduated from the University of Washington w[..]
Rainier Scholars – Tacoma has launched a new partnership with Degrees of Change, a not-for-profit organization that prepares diverse, homegrown leaders to succeed in colleg[..]
On a sunny Wednesday in early July, Rainier Scholars – Tacoma welcomed its second cohort of students to Summer Stretch at First Creek Middle School with excitement and [..]
It was the perfect day for a ribbon cutting as families and students gathered in the early summer sunshine on June 20 to welcome Rainier Scholars to University Place. Located[..]
