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Past Events

ANNUAL Career Sparks Summit

On March 23, 2024, at McKinney was the first annual Career Sparks Summit. This was organized and brought to life by a McKinney Alumni, Eyewitness news reporter Phil Tait who through his organization, Dream Reach Inspire, wanted to provide an opportunity for students from the community to learn about many different careers through a hands on experience.

McKinney featured on Channel 7 for the Dream, Reach, Inspire- Career Sparks Summit!

Brooklyn Becomes...BKNY

In the Spring 2026, Mckinney Visual Art students were asked to create artwork responding to the theme of "Brooklyn Becomes..." trying to imagine the future of what might Brooklyn be. Select artworks were chosen and are on view across from McKinney on Flushing from June to November 2026

Real Talk @McKinney speaker series

Real Talk at McKinney is a speaker series where we bring artists/ actors and activist from NYC to speak with our students about real life experience growing up in NYC, how art school changed them and how their experiences in education shaped their careers today. Past guests have included Tristan "Mack" Wilds, A$AP Ferg and Raymond Santana from the Exonerated 5.

Basquiat Project @Barclays

In September 2023, a select group of student artists from grades 8 to 11 had their artwork displayed for The Basquiat Project exhibition at the Barclay's Center.

Each work is a self portrait of the artists and touched upon different social themes such as body image, societal pressures and responsibilities.

McKinney On Broadway

This school year McKinney juniors participated in the #EDUHAM program, a partnership between the NYC DOE, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Students took part in a Founding Fathers and Revolutionary War curriculum, analyzed our nation's founding documents, wrote their own performance pieces based on the period and paid just $10.00 (#Ham4Ham) to see the Tony Award winning show Hamilton.

One group of our students was chosen from schools around the city to perform on Hamilton's Broadway stage at the Richard Rogers Theater in front of nearly 1,300 of their peers.

Head to our Instagram to see their performance!

Pink Day/ Breast Cancer Walk

Students and staff participated in the American Cancer Society Making Strides Breast Cancer Walk to raise awareness and funds for Breast Cancer research. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and McKinney is always honored to walk for the cause.

In recognition on Breast Cancer Months, McKinney's staff and students joined UFT to acknowledged the awareness of Breast Cancer and the importance of early detection and research to fight the disease .

PAST EVENTS FROM 2024-25

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