On January 25, TEDx Pleasant Grove hosted speakers from Dallas and beyond on the theme “Open.” Among them were established professionals and changemakers such as Caryoln Coker Ross, an eating disorder and addiction expert, Poonam Patel, founder of Urban Loop Studio, and Thomas Palmer, BOMLA alumnus and aspiring lawyer and senator. Modeled after the popular […]
9,361. That’s how many miles BOMLA sophomore Francisco Cantu is hoping to travel to study wildlife conservation in Australia this summer. To help fund his trip, Cantu has already designed and sold 86 wildlife-inspired t-shirts as well as 60 homemade carrot cakes, baked alongside his mom, Angelica. “Fundraising was going to be the only way […]
A common piece of advice from personal and professional life coaches is to visualize success, with the idea being if you can see it, you can achieve it. But what happens when young people have nowhere to look? For New York Jets offensive tackle and BOMLA FRIEND Kelvin Beachum Jr., creating opportunities for the next […]
It’s not every day you meet a middle-schooler with a rising talent for debate, but that’s exactly what you’ll find in BOMLA seventh grader Leroy Tamfu. Tamfu, who says he became interested in debate through politics, recently placed fifth out of fifty competitors at a local tournament. Tamfu said he trained with his classmates, teacher […]
BOMLA alumnus Bryan Flores is currently a junior at Texas A&M University studying industrial distribution, but he has a greater calling. “The most rewarding part of college so far has been the opportunity to strengthen my faith,” he said. “[After graduation] I want to first and foremost work in ministry, where I can take all […]
Every educator, administrator and student at BOMLA values and pursues success in its many different forms. This year, we invite you to celebrate the opportunities ahead of this year’s graduating class at our 2020 Senior Signing Day and Brunch on May 19. To date, BOMLA has achieved a 100% college acceptance rate among our seniors. The […]
Imagine visiting Oprah Winfrey’s Instagram page and seeing a video of your son presenting the media-mogul with a rose as a thank-you for a scholarship. For John Thompson and his son Zachary, this was a reality made possible through FRIENDS donations. In his first semester at Morehouse College, Thompson made the Dean’s List. His father, […]
Even though it wasn’t opposite day, Oct. 10 sure felt like it! BOMLA hosted Maureen Tarantello as our principal for Dallas Independent School District’s (DISD) annual Principal for a Day project. In collaboration with the Dallas Regional Chamber and Capital One Bank, DISD hosts Principal for a Day (PFAD) as an opportunity for community leaders […]
At BOMLA, the notion of service and giving back is built into our hallways. Similarly, FRIENDS founding Board Member Lyria Howland has intersected her professional work with her passion for advocating for young people. Recently, Howland was awarded the Change Agency Award from the Marcus Graham Project because of her contribution to increased diversity in […]
BOMLA students continue to make impressions with industry leaders, like film producer Lisa Cortes who toured campus after the Dallas Screening of her latest documentary. At the start of November, a group of students from the BOMLA Jazz Band performed at the Dallas premiere of HBO’s newest documentary, The Apollo, before the film aired nationwide. […]