LOOKING BACK AS WE MOVE AHEAD

As we prepare to begin the 2020-2021 school year, we take a look back at 2019-2020 school year – no doubt, one for the history books. No proms. No graduation ceremonies. No senior carnivals, No senior skip day. Instead of our last day in the classroom being in June, it was in March.

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Elisabeth Hinckley
JAMAH + AMBITION = CAUSE + COMMERCE

A new year. A new decade. 2020 marks a significant milestone for Nancy Gale, JAMAH and AMBITION. On January 20, 2000, Gale founded JAMAH with the goal of becoming known as the first true American luxury handbag brand. Ten years later, on February 22, 2010, she established AMBITION, an entrepreneurial, school-based non-profit with the goal of aiding disadvantaged youth.

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REFLECTING ON DAY ONE | FALL 2019

7:58 am. ‘Good-bye’ and ‘I love you’ are echoing from numerous car windows. The sound of footsteps as the students make their way to their classrooms. The voices and laughter bouncing off the walls of the buildings before the 8 AM bell. The soundtrack to Wednesday morning. A morning anticipated by many… for a variety of reasons.

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Elisabeth Hinckley
LET THE NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN

Bob Deemer wasn’t using the ambition.org domain name. He was just holding on to it, or cybersquatting, as some might call it. And why not? A Web Developer at ESPN, Deemer was at the forefront of the dot com boom. He knew he would find buyers ready to spend upwards of $25,000 for ambition and some of the other words he had scooped up at a time when they could be bought for less than $50.

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