In 2020, Ajiah Wilson-Bronson was scrolling through Instagram and noticed a lot of women and girls wearing jewelry – something she didn’t have much of herself. “Instead of just saying, ‘Oh, I want that,’ I asked myself, ‘How can I make that?’” says Wilson-Bronson, a 17-year-old student who is about to enter her senior year at International Academy of Flint.… Read More 

Currently, at Harvest Theatre Company, a group of young people are preparing for a showing of “Othello: The Remix” later this month. They’re running lines, taking costume measurements, learning how to DJ – basically everything it takes to bring a musical to life on stage. And, because these students are TeenQuest graduates participating in the Summer Youth Initiative, or SYI,… Read More 

For Jordan Johnson, her career path started during Summer Youth Initiative, when she worked for Michigan Community Services Inc., or MCSI. There, she supported the agency’s day and respite care programs serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “I loved the work and the environment,” says Johnson, who graduated from Genesee Early College in 2015. “I thought, ‘This is good… Read More 

And the award goes to… To celebrate the end of the school year, YouthQuest hosted a “Hello, Summer” event at Eisenhower Elementary School. Leading up to the event, YouthQuest staff were asked to think about and identify some of the special characteristics and gifts that each student exemplifies. That brainstorming was used to create more than 30 individual awards that… Read More