Thank You 2020!


 
Thank you to Horizon Stars Toastmasters Club for sponsoring Black Homeschoolers of Central Florida, Inc. for 10 weeks of public speaking and leadership classes! 






Thank you to Goodera for partnering with Black Homeschoolers of Central Florida, Inc. to provide opportunities for companies and their employees to volunteer to share their careers as guest speakers and make motivational and teaching aids for our youth. 




Thank you to Junior Achievement for providing virtual lessons for our youth to continue their studies in financial literacy! 





Thank you to Walmart Giving for supporting our BHCFL Tutoring and College Preparatory Program with a $500 donation! 



Thank you to UPchieve for providing FREE live STEM tutoring and college counseling support for our students and students under our umbrella.








Thank you to Education Revolution for providing such wonderful service in live lesson instruction and learning aids for our students K-12th in the BHCFL Tutoring and College Preparatory Program. 





We are so thankful to our Community Partner, Microsoft, for taking such great care of our homeschooling families as we participated in Computer Science Week!

They drove us. They fed us. They taught us. Thank you Microsoft for three wonderful days of learning experiences for our children! It was phenomenal! 

As our children attended coding workshops,   Microsoft had live streams with four women astronauts,and planned a special visit from an amazing woman from Microsoft that inputs codes for satellites in orbit! So awesome! 




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