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Students at The Urban Assembly Maker Academy are problem solvers! See how these students are advocating for the reopening of the Brooklyn Banks Park:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/students-spearheading-effort-to-get-new-york-city-to-reopen-at-least-part-of-brooklyn-banks-skatepark/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

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This was a huge weekend for basketball! 🏀 No, we’re not talking about the NBA, we’re talking about the annual UA basketball league. Huge congratulations to @ua_performing_arts_org for taking home the title. They were victorious in a very close game against @uasem at the @uaglobalcommerce arena 🏟. Thank you to everyone who makes this incredible league possible!
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Congratulations to the The Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare EMT class for taking home First Place overall at the FDNY Youth EMS Games 🥇! ⁠
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On Thursday, May 26th from 2-3pm the Postsecondary Readiness team at the Urban Assembly is hosting our Equity in PSR Speaker Series titled, Impact Of An Early Career and College Awareness Course As Heard From Students”. Equity in PSR Speaker Series are conversations with experts in the field of education with the intention of highlighting the current inequities that exist in the postsecondary readiness process.

This one hour discussion includes a pre-recorded conversation with current 9th graders from the Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare about the impact that the Early Career and College Awareness (ECCA) course curriculum has had...

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On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous decision to strike down school segregation in Brown V. Board of Ed. Today, the Urban Assembly continues the commitment to education equity. Hear from Urban Assembly CEO David Adams on what this day means to us.
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May is #aapiheritagemonth! This month, we are celebrating and honoring people of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage, and we are starting off with Japanese American Activist Yuri Kochiyama. Yuri was born in San Pedro, California in 1921 to Japanese immigrant parents. In her early twenties, her life would change forever after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced out over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and imprisoned them in various camps across the United States. The time she spent wrongfully incarcerated inspired her to become an activist for AAPI rights, as well as other racial equity...