AGBM, Inc. sponsors The Legacy of Excellence Program and The Legacy of Excellence Awards Celebration. The Legacy of Excellence Program consists of two learning modules that incorporate the organization's mission. Both Modules offer activities that are of interest to young people; concentrate on "learner-centered" education (as opposed to theoretical or didactic based); and bear practical application to and in the lives of young African-American men that will firmly set their feet on the road to personal and societal success.

Young men learn (and/or enhance existing) marketable skills; strengthen their critical reasoning and thinking abilities; and discover and incorporate a sense of appropriate "public selves" into who they are currently as individuals and who they will grow into being as responsible community members. In addition - and just as importantly - they begin to see, plan for, and acclimate into a positive future with a support system of like-minded peers who are also committed to making positive choices and a foundation that supports and encourages good choices.

MODULE ONE: LIFE SKILLS

The overall objective of this program module is to help participants develop a clear sense of their attributes, talents, goals, and attitudes to enhance their employability. In the process, participants create individual plans for self-improvement, and obtain skills for job searching, job retention and career management.

MODULE TWO: COMPUTER LITERACY TRAINING

Through the use of technological tools, PCs, software, scanners, and digital cameras high school participants will be actively engaged in creating a digital diary that demonstrate an appreciation of the historical strength of the African American family as well as reflect the positive contributions of their families, friends, and the community in which they live. Participants will acquire the skills necessary to document stories of their families or community's history.

These stories shared online will become a vital piece of the patchwork quilt of their personal identity and history. Through collaboration with other high school participants, the stories can be woven together into a living history of their culture as a whole by linking the past to the present.

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