The EVOLUTIONS After School Program
at the Yale Peabody Museum

For Students

What Is EVOLUTIONS?

• It’s a “club” for students interested in science, serious about school and headed to college. Watch the EVO movie! CLICK HERE
  
• It’s a place where you’ll learn how to make yourself competitive for college, explore what you want to do with your life and make a bunch of great friends from other schools — students as serious as you are. 
  
• • It’s an opportunity to get paid as an intern in a Yale professor’s lab and work at the Peabody Museum teaching exhibits to visitors.
  

Download the Application Packet for 2008–2009 [436KB PDF]
Or apply online! Go to http://www.evoasp.org/apply/

Worried that it might not be fun? Check it out: 

We mix it up with projects, games and field trips.  In fact, in 2007 and 2008 we visited the Boston Museum of Science and 6 universities around Washington, DC (overnighter!), including the University of Delaware, Johns Hopkins University, Catholic University, Georgetown University, the University of Maryland and Howard University.

Still skeptical?  Listen to what students from last year had to say:

“At EVOLUTIONS it’s more like a big family…”

“I've noticed that almost all [EVOLUTIONS students] talk about colleges they're thinking about applying to, or they think a lot about SAT prep. I gather that these are the serious students that will be successful...”

“The kids at EVO are passionate about what they do, and why they're here.”

“We think different.”

“All of my top freshmen experiences have come from working in EVOLUTIONS. I wouldn’t trade a second of my time in EVO for anything in the world.”

Who Is EVOLUTIONS?

The EVOLUTIONS After School Program is for high school students in the New Haven Public School System* and it’s totally 100% guaranteed FREE!

Slackers Need Not Apply!  You don’t need to have good grades to be in EVOLUTIONS but you do need to be mature and responsible enough to make a commitment to the program and the other members of your team. 

In 2007–2008, students were recruited from the following schools:

• Hill Regional Career High School
  
• Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School
  
• New Haven Academy
  
• Sound School
  
• Wilbur Cross High School
  
• Common Ground High School
  
• Metropolitan Business Academy
  
• Connecticut Cross Scholars High School
  
• High School in the Community
  
• Hyde Leadership Academy
  

*For logistical reasons, we only recruit from schools that release students by 3:00 p.m.


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How Does It Work?

EVOLUTIONS members meet at the Yale Peabody Museum from after school to 5:30 p.m., 1 to 2 times every week during the school year.  Worried about how you’re going to get here?  Gotcha covered (mostly)!  Members typically get to the Museum in 1 of 3 ways:

• Walk, if your school is close enough.
  
• Catch the Yale shuttle bus, if your school is on the shuttle route (FREE).
  
• Ride a New Haven city bus; we will give you passes (FREE).
  

Though some students use public transportation to get home, most are picked up by their parents at 5:30 p.m. 

Why Should I Join?

Lots of reasons!  First, and most of all, this program exists to help you get where you want to go — period, end of story. Need more?

All members who successfully complete the EVOLUTIONS After School Program receive some form of academic credit at their schools. High school students have received independent study credit, community service credit and/or supervised occupational credit (SOE credit; Sound School only). 

Students who join and stay with the program eventually have the opportunity to join SCI.CORPS (Science Career Orientation & Readiness Program for Students), a program for older EVOLUTIONS veterans that trains you to work in the Yale Peabody Museum teaching exhibits to visitors (called interpretation) in addition to providing you the opportunity to intern in a Yale professor’s laboratory. The best part? We pay you!


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The Specs

Meeting Location and Days

All meetings will be held at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The day you meet at the Peabody will depend on what grade you are in:

• New students meet on Tuesdays OR Wednesdays (note: in 2008–2009, West Haven students will meet on Tuesdays);
  
• 2nd year students meet on Thursdays;
  
• 3rd and 4th year students involved in SCI.CORPS meet on Fridays
  

Mondays are free days at EVOLUTIONS where all students in all classes are invited to hang out. We have 12 laptops and a printer you can use for school work and a Yale undergrad whom we’ve hired to help you with math and other homework.

OR you can just hang out!

Hours

We meet from right after school until 5:30 pm (the official meeting starts at 3:00–3:30pm depending on when everyone arrives).

The EVOLUTIONS Podcast | The EVOLUTIONS Newsletter

The 2008–2009 Staff

Supreme Ruler in Charge of All Things EVO:
Jamie Alonzo
(aka Dr. EVO, program director)

Evil Henchmen / Henchwomen:
(Yale undergraduates)

• Jen Hernandez
  (EVOLUTIONS Fellow; Tuesday and Wednesday instructor)
  
• Alex Weinstein
  (EVOLUTIONS Fellow; Thursday instructor)
  
• Rafa “Hoffa” Kern and Julia Blum
  (SCI.CORPS Fellows; Friday instructors)
  
• Leah Jones
  (Academic Mentor; Monday tutor)
  

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