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Kent ISDKent ISD’s Student Leadership Community is made up of students from many districts and a wide variety of educational experiences. Today we talk to a few of them about their aspirations and how what they are learning now will help them achieve their goals -
Kent ISDJonas is getting a jump start as a social media influencer, Flora is using her marketing skills to craft effective messages and Kenny’s photography is a channel for his creativity. All are beginning to build their business dreams while still in high school
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With an interest in healthcare and a love of STEM learning, East Kentwood 12th grader Sifa Mulebinge took a chance on a summer experience to help solve real-world problems and gain college credit between high school semesters at BAMF Health -
When Charlie Vonk created a course called Video Tech Time, he didn’t know he would be inspiring a career that would lead one of his middle school students to join the Olympic Broadcast Team, not once but twice. Jon Greenhoe’s dream is taking him to Paris this summer -
In middle school, Eric Sorensen built himself a computer. By graduation, he completed the Networking & Cyber Security program at Kent Career Tech Center earning an unprecedented 21 certifications and more than 50 credits toward an Associate Degree in IT from Grand Rapids Community College through Launch U. For this Forest Hills Northern grad’s future, the cyber sky has no limit -
Their dreams are as different as they are, ambitions to become police officers, trauma surgeons, psychologists and to travel the world. It can all start with education and the confidence that comes with a belief in being beautiful -
Host Joy Walczak speaks to Caledonia High 11th grader Logan Reimbold, Director of esports at Aquinas College, Will Wolf, and Director of Workforce Development at Kent ISD Ryan Graham. -
Host Joy Walczak speaks with Miriam Ijor-Amachree, GED and CTE Adult Education graduate and Marty Marquardt, GED Instructor, Kent ISD Adult Education -
As they inch closer to graduation, three high school students share their career ambitions and the efforts of educators and school staff to empower them to reach for their dreams. -
Their dreams are as diverse as their backgrounds and experiences, but one thing scholars in Kent ISD’s Student Leadership Community have in common is that their educational experiences are helping them reach their goals beyond high school -
When she’s not in school or studying, you may find Rubi Esquival-Estaban in the kitchen trying out a new recipe or baking a favorite treat for her family. The Grand Rapids UPrep senior is gathering all the ingredients to make her dream of opening her own bakery one day a reality -
Dreams start early for kindergarteners in Rosi Corl’s Central Elementary kindergarten classroom in Grandville. See a gallery of the Dream Drawings young students created as they describe their hopes for the future.
