Accelerate Your Dreams Scholarship

Tutoring, Anger Management & Hands-On Skills for Teens

The Accelerate Your Dreams Scholarship is a youth skills scholarship that gives teens access to meaningful tutoring, anger management and communication skills training, and hands-on skill-building that can lead to real career pathways.

This program exists because too many capable young people are stuck — not because they lack intelligence, but because they lack support, structure, and opportunities that pull them away from screens and into real-world learning.

We don’t keep kids busy.
We help them build something real.

What Scholarship Participants Receive Each Week

This scholarship provides multiple layers of support that work together to create real change — academically, behaviorally, and practically.

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📘 Academic Tutoring & School Support Lab

Required for all scholarship recipients, based on academic need:

• Students below a C average in any subject:
  ✅ 2 hours per week

• Students maintaining all C’s or higher:
  ✅ 30-minute weekly 

Tutoring focuses on:

• Closing learning gaps

• Strengthening core skills

• Improving focus, follow-through, and confidence

• Preventing academic backslide before grades drop

This ensures struggling students receive enough time to actually improve, while successful students remain accountable and supported.

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🧠 Anger Management & Communication Skills Training

Required for all scholarship recipients:

• ✅ 1–2 hours per week focused on:

  • Anger management and impulse control

  • Communication skills for school, work, and family

  • Conflict resolution and accountability

  • Managing frustration without shutdowns or outbursts

These are practical, skills-based sessions, not lectures or labels. Teens learn how to respond under pressure — a skill that directly impacts grades, relationships, and long-term success.

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🔧 Hands-On Skill & Career Enrichment

The Game-Changer

This is where everything connects.

Participants engage in hands-on learning that replaces screen time with skill time, including:

• Mechanical and technical skill-building

• Tool use, shop safety, and project completion

• Team-based problem solving

• Learning how things work — and how to fix them

Instead of spending hours on video games, teens are:

• Building

• Creating

• Troubleshooting

• Completing real projects they can see and touch

For many students, this is the first time learning feels relevant — and the first step toward careers in trades, mechanics, media, or technical fields.

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Why This Approach Works

Teens learn best when they can connect effort to outcome.

Hands-on skill-building:

• Improves focus and motivation

• Builds confidence through accomplishment

• Reinforces problem-solving and persistence

• Opens doors to career paths that don’t require traditional classrooms

This approach is supported by respected education and youth development organizations:

• The Harvard Center on the Developing Child explains that building self-regulation and executive function skills strengthens learning and decision-making.
  👉 https://developingchild.harvard.edu

• Edutopia, a trusted education nonprofit, highlights that project-based and hands-on learning increase engagement and long-term retention.
  👉 https://www.edutopia.org

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America emphasizes that structured mentorship combined with skill development improves academic, behavioral, and life outcomes.
  👉 https://www.bbbs.org

These principles are built directly into the Accelerate Your Dreams Scholarship.

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Scholarship Expectations & Accountability

Scholarships are awarded with clear expectations to protect students, families, and donor trust.

Participants agree to:

• Maintain a C average or higher, or participate in required tutoring until improvement

• Attend tutoring, skills training, and hands-on sessions consistently

• Follow safety rules and program expectations

• Participate respectfully with peers, mentors, and staff

• Complete a required safety and responsibility orientation with a parent or guardian

Scholarship support is contingent on effort, participation, and accountability.

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Scholarship Availability & Financial Eligibility

Scholarship assistance is awarded based on financial need, readiness, and available funding.
Applicants must be prepared to provide proof of income.

Apply for our scholarship today and take the first step towards empowering yourself and your family! Please be prepared to show proof of income.

How to Apply

Applying for the Accelerate Your Dreams Scholarship is simple.

• Complete a short application

• Share basic academic information

• Indicate what monthly contribution your family can reasonably afford

• Acknowledge participation expectations

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, based on readiness, availability, and funding.

👉 Apply for the Accelerate Your Dreams Scholarship

What Happens Next

Once a request for an application is submitted:

1. Our team sends an application to the email provided
2. Our team then reviews the application for program fit and readiness
3. Caregivers may be contacted to discuss financial participation options
4. Selected families receive next-step instructions, including orientation details

Income documentation may be requested to finalize scholarship levels.

Why Donors Support This Program

Your support helps provide:

• Multiple hours of tutoring each week
• Anger management and communication skills training
• Hands-on skill-building that replaces screen time with productivity
• Safe, supervised environments where teens learn by doing
• Early intervention before academic or behavioral struggles escalate

This is how potential turns into progress — and how teens discover paths toward meaningful careers.

👉 Together, we accelerate dreams — by building skills, confidence, and opportunity.

Every donation directly supports tutoring hours, skills training, materials, tools, and program supervision.