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Everest Academy's Service Program Challenges Students to Make a Difference

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Everest Academy's Service Program Challenges Students to Make a Difference

Everest Academy in Lemont, an independent Roman Catholic school in Lemont, helps its students develop a ‘heart for service’ by offering a robust program of community outreach projects.

The extensive outreach program at Everest complements the rigorous academic curriculum, helping the school achieve its goal of a well-rounded education for leadership. Each grade at Everest, including the preschool, takes on an age-appropriate service-related project during the course of the academic year. These so-called “apostolic projects,” named for the Catholic term “apostolic” which signifies helping others out of love for God, help awaken in the students a sense of social responsibility and a desire to help those in situations of suffering or injustice.

This year the projects taken on by each grade included outreach to the needy or lonely of the community for the middle school students (grades 5 – 8), while the lower school (K – 4) took on projects to show appreciation to those in our community who dedicate their lives to serve and protect others both locally and abroad. The middle school’s outreach projects included visiting the elderly residents at Alvernia Manor, a retirement community in Lemont; Zacchaeus House, a not-for-profit home for disadvantaged men in Chicago; and “Feed My Starving Children,” an international non-profit Christian organization with a shelter in Aurora that offers free meals to those in need. The lower school took on projects such as adopting the Lemont police officers, fire-fighters, service men and women, and veterans, and sending cards and treats to show gratitude for their service. The Kindergarten is currently collecting toys and books for the new Children’s Memorial hospital, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Hospital of Chicago, to open in June 2012.




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Everest Academy Lemont, founded in 1995 as White Pines Academy, is a private Catholic school offering a Pre-K through grade 8 program.

Our goal is to offer each child the highest quality education through Integral Formation®, the pedagogical method developed by the Legionaries of Christ. Through Integral Formation®, each student benefits from a personalized approach that develops the whole person, from intellect and character to spiritual life and apostolic responsibility. The result: intelligent, responsible, and positive leaders who will transform society with the Gospel values.

Here at Everest Academy, with our brand new campus opened for the fall 2009 school year, we are poised for growth and ready to give our students a Catholic educational experience that will last them a lifetime. Find out more by taking a tour of our campus.

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