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FUTURES Foundation celebrates Take Stock in Children

The event recognized newly selected participants and graduating high school seniors.


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  • | 11:00 a.m. June 27, 2023
TSIC Volusia graduating seniors from East Volusia high schools, left to right: Joseph Maddox, Atlantic High; Angel Methax, New Smyrna Beach High; Aaliyah Schaper, Seabreeze High; Alize Smith, PACE Center for GIrls; TSIC College Success Coach Jim Neill. Courtesy photo
TSIC Volusia graduating seniors from East Volusia high schools, left to right: Joseph Maddox, Atlantic High; Angel Methax, New Smyrna Beach High; Aaliyah Schaper, Seabreeze High; Alize Smith, PACE Center for GIrls; TSIC College Success Coach Jim Neill. Courtesy photo
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Take Stock in Children, a statewide scholarship and mentoring program facilitated locally through FUTURES Foundation for Volusia County Schools, hosted its annual New Student Induction and Senior Recognition Ceremony on May 22 at The Brannon Center in New Smyrna Beach. 

The event recognized newly selected participants and graduating high school seniors and was sponsored by Dr. Michael and Nancy Suah. A total of 28 new students were welcomed into the program.

The following Seabreeze and Mainland high school students will be joining the Volusia TSIC program in the 2023-2024 school year: Mainland students Alexa Duffy, Eva Gibbs, Lilly Gibbs, Yasmin Jimenez-Ventura, Brandon Riddick and Ethan Snider; and Seabreeze students Cheala Mannings and Jillian Trainor.

Sixteen members of the Volusia TSIC Class of 2023 who graduated from Volusia County high schools this year also were recognized.

The following three students from area schools are among 10 who will receive a Florida prepaid four-year college tuition scholarship: Mainland students Destiny Cummings and Jah Mya Hilll; and PACE Center for Girls student Alize Smith.

Aaliyah Schaper, of Seabreeze High School, is one of six who will receive a Florida Prepaid two-year college tuition scholarship.

 

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