Four years ago, Percivierre Whitmore was in his final year at Mott Middle College. He was graduating with both a high school diploma and an associate degree but wasn’t sure what his next step should be. And then he heard about Flint Promise. The scholarship program had just launched, offering students like Whitmore – who […]

Registration is now open for YouthQuest’s summer enrichment program, which provides students in grades K-12 with a unique way to spend summer vacation. “Summer YouthQuest is all about mitigating the ‘summer slide,’ which is a term used to describe the learning loss students experience while they’re out of school,” said Leslie Davis, director of Afterschool […]

One glance at Milton Straham III’s resume is all it takes to see that he’s a go-getter. Since graduating from Genesee Early College in 2014, he’s earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting as well as an MBA. For the last year or so, he’s been working for a major accounting firm, and […]

Each year, Summer Youth Initiative (SYI) connects hundreds of TeenQuest graduates to employers seeking to fill summer job openings. Recently, more than 25 businesses and nonprofit organizations met with local high school students and recent graduates at the SYI Job Fair, held April 30 at Genesee Career Institute. “Our SYI employers play an important role […]

While YouthQuest is continually empowering students to explore science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, or STEAM, the afterschool program believes so much in the importance of these fields that it also offers something called STEAMQuest at least once a year. As part of the weeklong celebration, which was held this year in mid-April, YouthQuest students […]