Our students need the opportunity go on college tours and expand their horizons. Please help us go on a tour to UNC, USC, SCSU and CCU!

Our Students

Did you go to college? Help my students get there too! Many of my students will be first generation college students - the first in their families to go to college. Our students at Howard, which qualifies as a high-needs, Title I School with over 70% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, are motivated to go to college. They have joined CAP - the College Access Program and/or National Honor Society to help them reach their dreams. Can you help them too?

Through this project, we are hoping to increase our students' college awareness, while also exposing them to colleges outside our tiny state.

Completing college successfully can unlock limitless potential. One factor essential to student success is the “fit” of the student and the college. College is challenging under the best circumstances, but the proper fit can make the difference that allows the student to persevere through the experience and graduate. Unfortunately, the cost of visiting and touring colleges is prohibitive for many of our students. The students in our groups are already high-achieving. They can and will be successful in college, but they do not always see the opportunities available to them beyond our small state, limiting their perspective and options. Our mission is to provide our students with an experience that will increase their awareness, in order to help them make the best possible decisions related to college admissions.

Our Fundraising Project

By supporting our fundraiser, you are allowing more than 40 of our students to reach higher. As part of our four-day trip, we will be visiting the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, University of South Carolina – Columbia, South Carolina State University, and Coastal Carolina University. You are supporting not just a trip, but a sense of hope, increased knowledge, and a better future for our students. While only a few of the students may end up attending the colleges on this trip, the experience, combined with the exposure to new cities and knowledge about college, will undoubtedly live on in each the students.

Our Costs

Our primary costs in this fundraiser are bussing and lodging. Taking a bus from Delaware to North and South Carolina, while by far the most cost efficient method, is quite expensive. With more than 40 students plus 4 chaperones, the estimate for our bus alone was nearly $10,000. We plan to take the trip starting on a Thursday morning - Sunday evening, so we will need lodging for 3 nights. Our preliminary estimate is that the costs for hotels for 3 nights will be around $4,000/night, or $12,000 total. We have a limited amount of money available from a grant to help pay for the cost of this trip, but we know that investments from sponsors like you will bring us within reach of our goal! 

For many people, attending and graduating from college is a given.

Thank you for considering sponsoring our students. Through this trip, we hope to engage our whole school community in the importance of college and planning for life after high school. In the city where we live, work and teach, only 4% of students in last year's graduating class were considered "college and career ready". Our students know the odds facing them, and they cannot wait to show what they are made of. Your donation to this project will help our students reach higher, achieve their dreams, and prove that we are not a statistic.

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