Reach for the Stars ATX, an organization that provides workshops for children, will begin offering an after-school enrichment program for elementary school students at Lake Travis ISD this fall. The program was founded by Barbara Achilles Minardi in late 2022, who has spent time as a substitute teacher in the school district.
In her time working at LTISD, Achilles Minardi noticed the number of enrichment programs offered after school for students. She set up a meeting with the district and pitched Reach for the Stars ATX.
“I’ve worked with children pretty much my whole life,” Achilles Minardi said. “When I was in high school, I was an etiquette [assistant] coach. ... That gave me the background, [and] maybe something would work where I’m living now, but I wanted to tweak it a little bit. I didn’t want it to be super old fashioned.”
A lot of the programming at Reach for the Stars ATX is centered around education-based workshops that deal with a range of topics from social etiquette to communication skills and resiliency.
