ADVANCE STUDENT RESOURCE SYSTEMS
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Mission Statement
Vision: Advance Student Resource Systems, Inc. encourages community funding engagement to enrich, develop, educate, and uplift young students by giving them the tools to become productive stewards of society. Mission: The mission of Advance Student Resource Systems, Inc. is to provide enrichment and resource opportunities to students who attend schools in underfunded zip codes.
About This Cause
HISTORY Advance Student Resource Systems, Inc. (ASRS) was founded in September 2017 by A. Maurice Etheredge. The idea for the organization emerged after he spoke with several teachers in Syracuse, NY, and New York City. The discussions identified that funding for city schools did not always include enough for teachers to provide students with enrichment opportunities such as field trips to museums, theatrical productions, cultural activities or other events and activities. In addition, teachers did not have funding for students to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs. Therefore, in 2017, ASRS took a gradual approach to provide support and assistance by supplying one teacher’s class with basic school supplies to ensure that students had pens, pencils, notebooks, and drawstring book bags. This initiative sparked the idea that a community and/or organization can assist with the development of students who attend schools in certain zip code areas in our communities. Since then, ASRS has aggressively and successfully sought ways to continue to help students be fully engaged with their education. On July 31, 2018, ASRS achieved Non Profit 501c3 status with the Internal Revenue Service and the organization was formally adopted. ASRS has a New York state tax-exempt status. In mid-2018, ASRS provided “sponsor branded” Academic and Attendance award for the seventh grade English, Language, and Arts (ELA) class. In addition, ASRS’ current STEM coordinator, Kevin Robinson, developed a LEGO Robotics program with Syracuse University’s College Science Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) and the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). ASRS added this as an initiative and decided to support a robotics program. In 2018, ASRS identified an opportunity to support the Syracuse Soapbox Derby by sponsoring cars for the pilot school, Danforth middle school, which has been renamed Brighton Academy. This initiative introduces students to STEM related techniques on friction/drag characteristics, assembling, testing, and racing a soapbox derby car. In 2019, through increased donations, ASRS provided additional support for the Soapbox Derby that included food, beverages, sponsorships, and volunteer time. That year, through a Saab Inc. grant, ASRS also provided both Achievement Awards and Attendance Awards to the Brighton Academy sixth, seventh and eighth-grade ELA classes. Recently, this awards initiative has expanded to the eighth-grade at Syracuse STEM at Blodgett middle school. ASRS proudly issued our inaugural Bags2School initiative for 300 students attending Brighton Academy. This initiative will expand into the fall 2020 school term for the sixth-grade at Syracuse STEM at Blodgett. In the past two years, we are not supporting an annual Sigma Gamma Rho, Inc - ASRS Awards Program, Fowler School Modified Track and Field Team, and Amazon Damage Product Refactoring Distribution Overall, the ASRS mission to promote Enrichment and Resource Opportunities of young students and, more importantly, to achieve and excel in school is expanding and growing. Student success is ASRS success!