PAWS: Postsecondary Awareness with Success
PAWS is a comprehensive early collegiate awareness program for children ages 8-10.
The Program began in October 2007 and currently serves fourth and fifth grader students annually from Brown Academy Elementary School.
Our mission:
Increase the number of elementary students attending postsecondary education institutions.
Improve the understanding and importance of postsecondary education for elementary students.
Help elementary children achieve their dreams of a post secondary education.
Our passion:
We are a program with a mission to mentor children to achieve their dreams by being better students, friends, and citizens so that they can successfully graduate from any postsecondary institution to lead the future of our communities, country, and world.
Goals for PAWS:
The Program began in October 2007 and currently serves fourth and fifth grader students annually from Brown Academy Elementary School.
Our mission:
Increase the number of elementary students attending postsecondary education institutions.
Improve the understanding and importance of postsecondary education for elementary students.
Help elementary children achieve their dreams of a post secondary education.
Our passion:
We are a program with a mission to mentor children to achieve their dreams by being better students, friends, and citizens so that they can successfully graduate from any postsecondary institution to lead the future of our communities, country, and world.
Goals for PAWS:
- Successful mentor/ mentee matching.
- High quality mentor/ mentee relationship.
- Prepare elementary age students for college through UTC student mentor interaction and college exposure.