June 3rd the Connecticut region celebrated its first Annual Peer Leader Awards Ceremony. 

The ceremony took place at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale.  The keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid, President of Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, CT.  The theme for the awards ceremony was “The Power of Leadership.”  While celebrating our first class of peer leaders, we acknowledged students, educators and schools for their hard work throughout the school year in promoting a college-going culture in their buildings.  Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School in New Haven was the recipient of the $5,000 Deloitte award for “Creating a College-Going Culture”.  The winners of the $1,000 scholarship for “Peer Leader of the Year” were two students from Bridgeport; Kimberly Cruz from Bassick High School and Rogette Mighty from Harding High School.