Volunteer with Apex in Brooklyn!
Exciting news! Apex is expanding our middle school mentoring program to a new Brooklyn site and we need your help. The majority of the students who attend our partner school in Bensonhurst (Brooklyn) are recent immigrants from China. They would benefit greatly from having a mentor to guide them through this transition. We’re looking for new […]
Opening Day 2016
We kicked off the new school year for our Mentoring Program with our annual Opening Day, where many of our mentees and mentors from the Middle School Mentoring Program (MSMP) and High School Mentoring Program (HSMP) met for the first time. This year, we celebrated Opening day at Fink’s Country Farm in Long Island; because […]
Career Day at Estée Lauder Companies
One of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of skin care, makeup, and fragrance products located on 5th Avenue, the Estée Lauder Companies, invited our Apex for Youth mentors and mentees to Career Day on Friday, April 29. Not many of us were familiar with the beauty industry and its marketing, so the panelists introduced […]
Adventures in Snow Tubing
We revived a past mentoring group activity last Saturday: snow tubing! The day started with a pizza lunch at P.S 1 in Chinatown before we ventured out to DropZone Snow Tubing Park at Mountain Creek in New Jersey. Upon arrival, our 86 mentors and mentees immediately hit the park, ascending up the hill on a […]