If you are taking the bus from METCO HQ, please arrive at our offices located at 11 Roxbury St. by 8 am.

The State House will not allow anyone in before 9 am, so please bear with us as we set up once their doors open.

Agenda

9:15 am – Registration, Breakfast, & Mingling

10:00 am – Start of Speaking Program, Great Hall

10:00 am – Welcoming Remarks – Milly Arbaje-Thomas, President & CEO of METCO Headquarters

10:05 am – METCO Champions (Rep. Chris Worrell, Rep. Dave Linsky, Sen. Liz Miranda) 

10:20 am – Ken Gordon, Education Chair

10:25 am – Wendy Tanahashi-Works, Teacher, Bedford

10:30 am – METCO Student Speakers: Iyana Cedeno & Moses Sibley, Lincoln-Sudbury

10:40 am – Elijah Evans, CEO, Bikes Not Bombs, Brookline Alumni

10:45 am – Glavia Smith, Wakefield METCO Director, Representing the MDA

10:50 am – METCO Student Speaker: Mariama Bangoura, Melrose

10:55 am – METCO Superintendent – Tom Milaschewski, Superintendent, Reading

11:15 am – Group Photo at Grand Staircase

11:30 am – Regional Breakouts

12:30 pm – Pizza and Water Available in Great Hall

1:30 pm – Bus leaves to return to METCO HQ

Regional Breakout Sessions

11:30 am to 12:30 pm