Simon Youth Foundation grants help at-risk students see their collegiate potential

Often, life experiences and what is taken from them are more valuable to learning than any lessons provided in a classroom. This is why a component of the Simon Youth Foundation mission emphasizes opportunities for students to build life-skills and explore career paths.

In the video below, we introduce you SYF students who successfully completed the 2012 Summer Camp at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing on the university's Bloomington, Ind., campus. Zeb Davis and Joshua Kerney, who appear in the video, were joined at the week-long camp by Ryan Castle and Cameron Smith.

All of the students were at-risk for dropping out of high school when they arrived at their Simon Youth Academies in Florida and Massachusetts. After their camp experiences, the students are energized to not only finish high school but pursue enrollment at the college of their choice.