GEAR UP Meriden currently serves the class of 2025 across the City of Meriden at Francis T. Maloney High School and Orville H. Platt High School.
If you’re a student, parent, guardian or educator, you can increase college and career readiness with GEAR UP Meriden as your partner. A federally funded grant program through the USDOE that helps empower local students to think beyond what they see today. GEAR UP CT provides the tools, resources, and programs to help students starting as early as middle school to increase their success in education.
Together with Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, the Meriden Public School system, and CT State Community College @ Middlesex, GU Meriden supports current 12th graders. With the goal to increase the number of students and families prepared and ready to succeed in their post-secondary goals.
GEAR UP Meriden will be conducting frequent and relevant workshops for students and their families as we travel through senior year. To learn more about which workshops are coming up next, visit the News & Events tab and stay up to date with our ParentSquare communication.
• Academic Coaching
• FAFSA/CSS Profile Completion
• After School Programing
• College & Career Exposure and Readiness
• Social-Emotional Support
• Annual Summer Programs
• Family Engagement
• Rigorous Course Preparation
Scholarship opportunities will be made available upon successful completion of the program & completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). GEAR UP will help you find local, national, and sponsored scholarships based on your individual needs.
GEAR UP Meriden STEM Toolkit Event
What a team at the April 19 media event at Platt High School in Meriden, CT: Scott Burrell, NBA Champion;Christina Lapierre, State Program Director for GearUP CT; Fatima Islam, GEARUP student; Alice Pritchard from CSCU, and NCAA and WNBA Champion Morgan Tuck.
