SEO Scholars is a free eight-year academic program that gets low-income public high school students through college with a 95% college graduation rate. Thousands of applicants from New York City and San Francisco public schools vie for a few hundred seats in the SEO Program.
Even on their Spring Break, the scholars are being kept busy. A third of them are taking their second to last SAT practice
test before they take their first official one on May 2nd.
After they complete the test, they will be participating in a
workshop to begin fundraising for their Summer Enrichment Programs.
During the workshop, each student will be creating a Piggybackr page.
They are
responsible for raising a minimum amount of money depending on which type of
program they are attending ($100 to $350). The amount of money each student raises
goes into a pool to ensure that every Scholar is able to attend an Enrichment Program without
any parent or guardian contribution.The total class goal is $30,000.
Piggybackr
gives the students the option to send out their fundraising accounts to their
networks. As their mentors, we are included in their networks although we were also
advised we were in no way obligated to contribute monetarily to their fundraising
efforts.
Rather, we
are encouraged to share the link with our networks. As it is with us, should
any of our viewers wish to contribute to the class goal, we also ask that you do
not give over $25 each.
The SEO Scholars are ultimately accountable for
their own fundraising efforts.
We are so very proud of them and are sure they succeed admirably!
We are so very proud of them and are sure they succeed admirably!
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