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 If the Class of 2013-14 studied hard, they also played hard through daily team-building games and weekly Ultimate Frisbee matches. With some assistance from EaSEP alum Kevin Biwot, the students staged their own version of Macbeth, complete with witches riding broomsticks (and mops), a murderous king and his ruthless wife, and the ill-fated Banquo.
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 Cherry Kandie and Caroline Kimetto explore their college options. With TOEFL and SAT exams behind them, current EaSEP students are heading home to monitor the college application process and all the electronic paperwork that comes with it. Families of the students gathered at EaSEP’s Nandi Hills camp following the SAT Subject Tests in early November. A big thank you to volunteer tutors including Paige Kouba (Harvard), Benjamin Letting (Harvard), and EaSEP alums Johnstone Kipyator (Stanford), Mercy Kiprotich (Cornell), Winsome Toroitich (St. Lawrence), and Kevin Biwot (University of Nairobi Law School). EaSEP board members Erik Heinonen (One Acre Fund, Burundi) and Janet Heinonen (Oregon) also helped tutor this year and worked with Paige to set up the curriculum. Erik, Kevin and Faith Laboso (EaSEP, Egerton University School of Medicine) assisted EaSEP chair Lillian Boit in recruitment and selection of students. Cornellius Metto (EaSEP, Princeton) helped trouble shoot internet access issues at the Nandi Hills camp.  EaSEP students meet with Michigan State's Patty Croom. Representatives from four MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program schools (Wellesley, Michigan State, Duke and Cal-Berkeley) visited Eldoret in September at the invitation of EaSEP founder and chair Lillian Boit. The four representatives first met with Uasin Gishu County Governor Jackson Mandago then with students from EaSEP and the Kenya Scholar-Athlete Project at Moi Girls High School. The Governor hosted a lunch for both students and school officials. A second session was held at Moi Girls with invited students from high schools around the region.
EaSEP has three freshmen in the MasterCard program this year: Beatrice Kemboi and Abigael Metto at Michigan State and Martha Aywa at Wellesley. The latter two attended Moi Girls. |
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