AWC celebrates 50 years of Trio Keys Student Support Services

Trio Student Support Services is currently celebrating 50 years of helping students achieve their academic goals.

SSS works with students from families with incomes under 36,900 in which neither parent graduated from college. The program helps students better understand their educational opportunities and to persist in college until they earn their baccalaureate degrees.

Undergraduates receive tutoring, counseling, and remedial instruction. Some SSS programs target students with disabilities, students interested in STEM, those interested in teaching, students for whom English is a second language, and military veterans.

AWC’s Trio Keys Program is kicking off local anniversary festivities with an Open House on Thursday, Feb. 22, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The community is invited to attend the event, which will be held in the Keys building at AWC Yuma Campus, located at 2020 S. Ave. 8E.

A reception will also take place on March 24, for all alumni of the program, which was first implemented at AWC in 1991.

The event will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Cocopah Casino Sports Bar and Grill located at 15318 S. Ave. B, Somerton, Ariz.