Students
5 Green Dot Students Take Part in Prestigious Summer Youth Fellows Program
This summer, five Green Dot students took part in the Coro Southern California Youth Fellows Program.
Read More >>HBCU-Bound Senior Shares Motivation, Wisdom in College Decisions
A graduating senior at Ánimo Jackie Robinson Charter High School will be the first in her family to attend college—2000 miles away from home.
Read More >>UCLA-Bound Locke Senior Reflects on High School, Road Ahead
As Keiry Valle’s path to college becomes clearer, she has taken a moment to reflect on how her high school experiences prepared her for success.
Read More >>Meet Ruby Esparza, Dell Scholar
Ánimo Watts College Preparatory Academy Senior Ruby Esparza is one of 13 Green Dot students to receive the prestigious Dell Scholarship award in 2021.
Read More >>Berkeley Dreams for Inglewood Student Come True
“No one told me how hard it was to get into Berkeley, I never knew until I got in and people would say ‘You got into Berkeley? You know how hard it is to get there.’”
Read More >>Angelenos Help Cheer on Green Dot Graduates
We invited Angelenos to send messages of support to a 2021 high school graduate.
Read More >>Bluff City High School Celebrates First Graduating Class
This spring, Bluff City High School in Memphis, celebrated our first graduating class. This event signified the ending of a special era and the beginning of a new adventure.
Read More >>This Student Wrote a Poem about Zoom School
In the move away from physical classrooms, many students have experienced distance-learning—but few have published a competition winning poem about it.
Read More >>8th Grade Student Celebrates First Place in Ánimo Voices Writing Competition
Akira Alamin, an Ánimo Westside Charter Middle School student, won first place through her experimental storytelling, tenacity, and skill.
Read More >>Ivy-Bound Senior Reflects on Ánimo Inglewood Experiences
“Coming from parents who only attended the sixth grade, I think it’s crazy just in the fact that I am even graduating high school,” reflected Antonio Preciado.
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