DATE: Booker T. Day is Friday, February 26th from 9:15 to 10:15am.  

PLEASE PARTICIPATE: Please complete the form below to participate in Booker T. Day.

WHAT IS BOOKER T. DAY? Booker T. Day is traditionally an enrichment day in which students have an opportunity to take advantage of some of the special human, geographical, culinary, experiential, and resources in New York City. Thanks to a cadre of parents, friends, connections, relatives, alumni, and sometimes celebrities, we get hosts to welcome students to their place of work, take them behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Opera or on stage at Carnegie Hall, on the set of CNN or NBC, on a walking tour of Harlem or Central Park. We have had volunteers welcome students to their offices at big firms, banks, software development companies, hospitals, research labs, an off Broadway theatre, and to a construction site. And, the list goes on and on. We’ve used Booker T. Day to open students’ eyes and give them a one-of-a-kind experience. This year, Booker T Day will go virtual but will still involve the same wide-range of experiences.

ABOUT BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL: Booker T. Washington Middle School (also known as MS54) is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Drawing its 840 middle-schoolers from District 3, the school is made up of grades six, seven and eight. The traditional program focuses on teaching students to be strong students, equipped with excellent writing, reading and reasoning skills. Graduates go on to the city’s strongest high schools.

WHO WAS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African American political leader, educator and author. He was one of the dominant figures in African American history in the United States from 1890 to 1915.