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September 08, 2025
What does it take to thrive in a high-pressure operating room or help patients recover? High school scholars found out from Van, Kate, Sasha, and Michaela, four hero MetroHealth nurses. Scholars practiced CPR, learned how to...
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June 17, 2025
Summer camp for ODA scholars is a season filled with growth, new experiences, collaboration, and creativity. Our 2025 Cleveland Summer Camp kicked off with the kind of energy only a group of curious, motivated scholars can...
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June 10, 2025
What does it look like to prepare a young person for life after high school – not just academically, but personally and professionally? In late May, a group of ODA high school scholars found answers during...
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June 10, 2025
For Jemier Johnson, an Open Doors Academy alumnus and current staff member, ODA has been a place where potential was nurtured, goals took shape, and giving back became part of his future. Jemier recently shared his...
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June 09, 2025
As the 2024-2025 school year ended, ODA families, staff, and board members came together for the Hunger Network’s 37th Annual Walk for Hunger & 5k Run. The 30 members of Team Open Doors Academy showed...
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May 20, 2025
For ODA scholars at Max S. Hayes, hearing from Tyler Wadsworth — an HVAC industry leader with four generations of experience in his family — was more than just a career talk. His message was...
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May 20, 2025
Scholars across our partner schools have been turning big ideas into bold inventions as part of Open Doors Academy’s largest-ever Pitch Challenge. Since March, scholars have been researching, designing, refining, and practicing their presentations with...
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May 20, 2025
“Free speech is an important topic because everybody has the right to free speech,” said LaMarcus Idom, a senior at Max S. Hayes High School and proud Open Doors Academy scholar. This spring, LaMarcus entered the...
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May 20, 2025
As a fifth grader at ODA Sandusky, Finnley Jaunzemis is discovering her strengths and passions in exciting new ways. A two-year participant in ODA’s afterschool programming, Finnley attends two days a week and makes the...
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April 28, 2025
For Tekia Lawson, Open Doors Academy has been part of her daughter Ki'Yanni McCall’s life since kindergarten. Now in sixth grade at Breakthrough’s Glenville Campus, Ki'Yanni continues to thrive in a program where she finds...
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