As an Early College High School, Alameda Science and Technology Institute is unique in its approach to secondary education. One of the very first Early College High Schools in California to receive funding through a catalytic “start-up” grant made available by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, ASTI’s funding intermediaries are the Foundation for California Community Colleges and Jobs for the Future. Students at ASTI are provided a rigorous college preparatory curriculum in grades 9 and 10 before then enrolling full-time at the College of Alameda in a prescribed ASTI Course of Study that configures dual enrollment in such a manner as to satisfy California and AUSD high school graduation requirements while simultaneously allowing ASTI students to earn up to two years of community college transfer credits, thus saving students and their families up to two years of college time and college costs.Tumblr (3.0; @asti-network-branch)http://asti-network-branch.tumblr.com/