U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) will be the featured speaker at the 10th Anniversary of the Odyssey Charter School in Wilmington on Saturday.
The celebration begins with a “Parade of Nations” by students of the Odyssey Charter School at 10 a.m. A brief documentary of the preparatory events will debut followed by the arrival of Greek Olympians bringing the Olympic Flame and wreaths to the campus.
The official dedication of the Barley Mill Campus and the formal implementation of the “twinning” of the Odyssey Charter School with its sister schools in Greece will cap off the celebration.
Education has been important to Senator Coons since his college days. As a law student at Yale, he founded the first Delaware chapter of the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, which helps low-income students move from elementary school through college.
Shortly after receiving his law degree and clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, he began working at the organization’s national office, where he launched and ran its AmeriCorps program in fifteen cities.
In this program, AmeriCorps members help recruit and train volunteers to mentor students participating in the foundation’s college-attainment program.
Odessey was one of the state’s first charter schools. It is Delaware’s first mathematics focused elementary education charter school, with Greek taught as a second language.
Current enrollment is more than 1,000 students in grades K-8 from five different school districts.
