My name is Robert Gersony, and I have been with SBC for three years. Summerbridge is a great program. Students and teachers that come here have grasped on to a great thing. It helps students and teachers in a way unique to the program. Teachers get experience in magical world of teaching, giving them the chance to see what it’s like, feel out the problems, and sometimes even make a career out of it. The students get to study academics through a fun new perspective, making a fun but intelligent summer. They will go back to school refreshed, ready to take on the challenges of the upcoming year.

Although I close my journey at Summerbridge this August, there are still plenty of opportunities to keep in touch with the program. I can come to work as a junior teacher or an office assistant. When I’m older, I could actually teach here. Teaching is always an option here. I mean, really, you just have to stay one lesson ahead of the kids. Just kidding.

I’d like to say something to each of the grades in the program. To the sixth graders, may it be a breeze or a challenge to you this summer, I really encourage you to continue with the program. Everything really pays of in the end. Not just with the academics, but with all of the friends you will meet and all of the memories you will make. To the seventh graders, come back for a third summer. It is really worth it for the same reasons that I have mentioned. Force them to make a House H. The third summer is really cool. A lot of the things from your previous summers are twisted up to make it more exciting. For one thing, you have Bridgeblock, which is community service mixed with either science or humanities. Do not be deceived, it’s very fun. To the eighth graders, e-mail me.

To the teachers, you all have done a great job. I always enjoy the staffs’ clever and inventive spins to each summer. For students and teachers that have been here for more then a year, you can really see how every summer presents new joys, new pains, and a new skit at community meeting. In my opinion, memories are the most important thing in life.

I have made a lot of great memories here at Summerbridge Cambridge, from my very first step into the Tobin School of 2003, to the forest lands of the camping trip, to the beaches of Fresh pond, to the Boston Globe in a scorching heat on Career Day, to the light rain falling upon Tufts University during the After-School Program, to the riverside of our beloved Charles, to the great Hancock skyscraper in the winter blizzard, all the way to my very last step out of Tobin School of 2005. All good things come to an end. The students will probably stay in touch after SBC ends. We have to remember that the teachers here are students as well. At the end of every summer, they stop being teachers and become the students that they have been. They all scatter to wherever they must be, remembering that experiences like this come once in a lifetime. I encourage all of you to make the most of the time that we all have together. Remember the good times that we have. And don’t let them fade away. Thank you.