Eagle Academy Archives - Momentum Golf and Education

A Holiday Message to Our Supporters

Sustaining Our Momentum

Sports-based youth development programs like ours play a significant role in fostering the social and emotional skills necessary to succeed in school, careers and life.

Through your support, Momentum has been able to provide programming in golf, workforce development, academic and career readiness, and financial literacy for underserved youth populations in New York City and Westchester County.

We hope that you’re as proud of our students as we are.

In January, Alexander Ciriaco will enter Binghamton University, where he plans to study economics and finance. For the last three summers, Ciriaco was in our Quaker Ridge Golf Club Fellowship Program, where he blossomed into a young man and citizen of the world. He is heading to college armed with a range of skills and contacts that will ensure his future growth and success.

“Through the program, I learned much about golf, tennis, the world of business, and most noticeably, myself,” he said in an essay about his experiences in the program.

Our students from Eagle Academy who are participating in America’s Water Education Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, are doing some important research in data science and water security.

With Eagle Academy high school faculty, students are researching topics such as Building Student Autonomy in Understanding Climate and Water Concerns through Governmental Data Platforms and encouraging middle school and high school students to pursue career pathways in data science and water security.

This December, students from the program attended the American Geological Union’s annual conference in San Francisco, where 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries convened to share research and network.

In 2024, we will continue this important work and will help new partners, such as DREAM Charter High School in the Bronx, bring the game of golf to hundreds of students. In Harlem, we’re going to relaunch the high school golf program at Eagle Academy.

Yes, we’re ambitious, but we can’t do it alone. Your support will help us grow and sustain our work, which is designed to address some of the most pressing problems facing our world, from climate change to water security to closing the racial wealth gap.

Happy Holidays,

Farrell Evans, Sam Weiss and Bill Holmes
Momentum Golf and Education Founders

Momentum 2022: Our Year in Review

Quaker Ridge Fellows

This summer we completed another successful Quaker Ridge Fellows Program with eight students from New Rochelle High School. The highlight of each week was “Momentum Wednesday,” when students learned about STEM, financial literacy, writing, and public speaking and attended “career lunches” with club members from a variety of industries.

On their other days at the club, the students interned with the general manager, golf course maintenance, golf operations, tennis operations, the kitchen, and food and beverage. You can read about their summers here, and watch Nyah Rosado’s video report below.

Ways You Can Help

Donate. Support Momentum by making a donation.
Tell Your Friends! Spread the word to your friends, colleagues, and family, and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Get Involved. Reach out to learn more about our programming and volunteer opportunities.

Stay Tuned

We have several other projects in the works, including:

Eagle Academy Harlem: Restarting the middle school and high school golf program in the 2023-24 academic year.
LifeScience Cares: Potential partnership with this nonprofit that would benefit hundreds of students from two NYC-based public high schools.
Diversity and Inclusion Programming at Golf Clubs: We are in discussions with a private golf club in New Jersey and a public 9-hole course in upstate New York.
The National Science Foundation, America’s Water Education Program: Our work with the NSF is progressing, and the Water Exhibition is scheduled for May 2023!

2021 in Review: End-of-Year Letter to Our Supporters

Hello friends,

We hope you and your loved ones are all healthy, happy, and enjoying the holiday season. We are thrilled to update you on Momentum. It’s been an incredibly successful year, and we are excited for what’s next. Without your support, we could not have accomplished any of this and we are so grateful. We hope you will consider renewing your support with a year-end gift to allow us to sustain and expand our program empowering youth through golf and education.

As a reminder, Momentum’s mission is to use the power of golf and education to help children reach their fullest potential. We are a nimble, collaborative group, and we feel very fortunate to be doing this important work. This year has been a great testament of our ability to deliver impactful programming that introduces young people to the game of golf and provides resources, networks and experiences that will help enrich society with a more diverse group of future leaders.

Momentum and Columbia Water Center Are Bringing Data Science Into Eagle Academy Classrooms

Momentum and the Columbia Water Center at Columbia University have teamed up to bring a grant program funded by the National Science Foundation to the Eagle Academies of Harlem and Southeast Queens.

The grant program – America’s Water Education Project to Engage Young Black and Latino Men in Data Science through Water Security, or AWE – is designed to break through persistent barriers faced by Black and Latino men in STEM education and careers. Working with 8th through 11th grade students and their teachers from the Eagle Academies of Harlem and Southeast Queens, AWE will integrate data science into math and science curricula to test, among other things, the effect on STEM competency and the likelihood of students’ choosing a data science career, especially one related to water security.