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For many students at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, Rhode Island, winter recreation was once out of reach. Now, thanks to the Mount Pleasant Ski Club, students are not only learning to ski and snowboard but also improving their attendance and academics in the process.

A Massachusetts-raised, Jackson, New Hampshire-based lifelong skier who also happens to be a high school music director has secured a prestigious Share Winter Foundation (https://sharewinterfoundation.org/) grant to introduce dozens of the inner city high school students she works with to the mountain sports life.

OTIS, Mass. (WPRI) — Students at Mount Pleasant High School were given a second opportunity at an activity that may only be once in a lifetime. Inspired by the story of students of color from Mount Pleasant High School hitting the slopes of Yawgoo Valley, another anonymous donor gave the school $1,500 to fund second trip.

EXETER, R.I. (WPRI) — Most New Englanders can remember their first time skiing or snowboarding. But for a handful of Mount Pleasant High School students of color, they’ve never had the chance to before Thursday.