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John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy The John V. Lindsay Wildcat Charter School is an alternative high school
founded in 1993 for students who have dropped out of traditional public schools. JVL Wildcat's student body of around 500 students on two campuses,
one in lower Manhattan and one in the Bronx, is 99% minority, with 78% classified as Economically Disadvantaged.
Wildcat's work with its unique student body is grounded in the three related themes of alternative education: (1) a strong academic focus,
(2) clear expectations concerning behavior, and (3) alternative learning options.
As a "last opportunity" school, students who have been failed by their previous school settings and whose past behaviors
and life experiences have prevented them from success, are given the opportunity to overcome their issues and
move forward with their lives in a community that supports high academic rigor and personal responsibility. JVL Wildcat was recently awarded a Bronze rating
in the 2015 US News & World Report high school rankings for New York – an exceptional achievement for a school with these demographics.
A unique feature of JVL Wildcat is its STEM program, which meets for 2-1/2 hours each day with selected students.
The FESIRSE project is working with the STEM teacher to expand and modernize this program around an environmental focus, including building environmental
monitoring equipment and using Arduino microcontrollers to collect and record data.
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