Since graduating from Carmen Ainsworth High School in 2010, Clyde Bell II hasn’t stopped moving forward. He left his hometown at 18 and moved Georgia to attend Clark Atlanta University where he completed his Bachelor of Arts in business marketing. Bell has been moving forward ever since, but he says without TeenQuest, he may not […]

BUILDING CITIES Fourth and fifth grade students at Freeman Elementary participated in the club Box City. Tasked with building their own city out of boxes, students planned and sketched out the location of important city buildings. They then drew roads and discussed important terms used in city planning such as rural, urban or suburban areas. […]

Image Credit: Gavin Whitner, MusicOomph.com   What can hip-hop teach us about history? Quite a bit! By putting rhyme schemes over beats, the music genre provides a creative way to tell the stories of our country’s past. “We are tying this month’s theme into Black History Month,” says Rhetta Hunyady, Vice President of Education & […]

A graduate of Carman-Ainsworth High School, Maxwell Montney says he can thank the TeenQuest program for helping him land his current position as a Co-op Credit Analyst at Financial Plus Credit Union. “Taking initiative was one of the biggest lessons I learned,” says Montney. “I was the first person to put in my application for […]

During a recent visit to Northwestern High School, Kevin Collins brought along one of the cellphone’s earliest predecessors: the drum. As he explained the drum’s origins and history, students learned that the musical instrument once served as a form of communication in West Africa. This is one of many lessons that YouthQuest students have learned […]