Project GRAD’s annual Celebration of Stars took place at the Knoxville Convention Center on Sunday, April 14. Families, community members, elected officials, GRAD staff and Board and GRAD partners gathered to celebrate the hard work and achievements of the graduating GRAD scholarship recipients from Austin-East and Fulton high schools. Beautiful decorations adorned the ballroom. Flowers, […]

Again, a very generous Knoxville regional community responded to the invitation to be part of the 2019 WATE Laptops for GRAD Scholars Telethon. Long a dream of news anchor and youth advocate Lori Tucker, the goal of the station’s telethon is to raise funds to provide a laptop computer to every Project GRAD Knoxville Scholarship […]

This month Project GRAD and Pellissippi State Community College partnered to bring our Early College Awareness Program (ECAP) to members of our K-8 family. ECAP provides an opportunity for young people to experience some of the available postsecondary pathways. This event took place on Pellissippi State’s Magnolia Avenue campus. Scholars from Spring Hill, Christenberry, and […]

I recently moved to Tennessee after living in Louisiana my whole life. It was a scary and uncertain future for my family and myself, but we knew it was time for a change. We have loved Tennessee, specifically Gatlinburg, as a vacation destination for many years so we decided to make Tennessee our home. It […]

An Overview of the Day by Day Experience Day 1: March 1 Eager students were excited about their first Interact Conference. After loading the vehicles and packing down my suburban with enough clothes to last a week, we were off to Pigeon Forge. The first order of business was lunch. We stopped at “Steak and […]

The Project GRAD Knoxville College/Career Success Coaches work diligently to support GRAD scholars through their post-secondary experience. We provide intentional layers of support for freshmen navigating their first semester and those in need of academic intervention. Each scholar’s journey is unique and we are here to boost all of them towards graduation! The Success Coaches […]

Project GRAD is thrilled about our second season of recruiting and training students for Hands on the Future paid summer internships. This competitive opportunity is available to qualified juniors and seniors from Austin-East and Fulton High Schools. Fourteen local businesses have committed to hosting a total of 23 interns during the upcoming summer. A vital […]

Select students from Project GRAD’s Austin-East feeder recently participated in an event called “My Sister’s Keeper.” The event took place at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy and involved a very special group of fifth grade girls. The group activities were designed to encourage strong self-esteem and teambuilding. “My Sisters Keeper” focused on self-love and love […]

This work that we do is vital in the lives of the students that we serve. It is very fast-paced, often challenging, and most certainly rewarding. Picture this: you’re a teenager again. You’re very skilled at science. You have dreams, aspirations and ambitions. You also have a reality. You have quite possibly never left the […]

SCHOLARS, DON’T FORGET TO CLAIM YOUR PROJECT GRAD SCHOLARSHIP VIEWERS, WE NEED YOUR HELP. IF YOU KNOW OF A GRAD SCHOLAR, PLEASE CHECK IN WITH THEM AND MAKE SURE THEY HAVE CLAIMED THEIR GRAD SCHOLARSHIP. Each semester (except summer semester) the scholars must submit their “unofficial transcript” to receive their GRAD scholarship disbursement for that […]