AGES Foundation is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation founded to elicit donations to support Panajachel Colegio Internacional, (panajachelcolegio.org).
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Panajachel Colegio Internacional (PCI) is a unique and important non-profit school in the Lake Atitlan region of the western highlands of Guatemala. I have had the pleasure of serving as the board president of this wonderful school for the past eleven months. My partner Dan previously worked at the school for over four years, teaching math, science, and technology, including robotics and Advanced Placement Physics and Calculus.
PCI is the best junior and senior high school in the Lake Atitlan area. When PCI started seven years ago, it served mainly expat families who could pay full tuition. Now almost 95% of the 70-student population is Guatemalan, and more than 75% of these are indigenous.
PCI provides a trilingual (English, Spanish, and Kaqchikel) education. For those entering without sufficient English, PCI has a full-time ten-month English Language Learning program. Core classes (English, math, science and social studies) are co-taught by a native English-speaking teacher and a Guatemalan teacher. Students receive extra help as needed after school. The student:faculty ratio is less than 6:1. Class size is from 5 to 15 students. (Most Guatemalan schools have classes of 35-55 students.) The school day is from 8:30am-4pm, compared to the standard five-hour Guatemalan school day.
PCI graduates attend universities in Guatemala, other countries in Central America, Europe, Canada and the U.S. They study medicine, law, engineering, environmental sciences, biochemistry, public health, astrophysics, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, finance, economics, and more.
