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Students Encourage Students to Dream It - Do It

Published 03/18/2014

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HOUSTON -- The Dream It Houston team, including four seniors and five juniors at the entrepreneurial arm of the University of Houston's Bauer School of Business, aim to raise double the money, $20,000, so that they can give back to the Third Ward, the community that neighbors the University of Houston. They are crowd-funding this concept, accepting donations online on their dreamithouston.com web site.

"Only 7 percent of people in the Third Ward will get a bachelor's degree," says Dream It CEO Christopher Wick, a senior at the highly regarded Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship. "The children in the Third Ward are literally growing up in the shadows of our campus. We want them to feel that they can attend University of Houston in their future."

Dream It Houston is teaming with Generation One, a non-profit organization that has spent the last seven years working to transform the Third Ward through education for children and adults, employment and volunteers. The Generation One Academy has been open for the past three years, and guides at-risk students ages 4 to 12 on a path to educational success, offering a 1 to 6 student/teacher ratio.

"Dream It Houston is right on target with what we're building at Generation One," says Tremeka Collins, principal at the Generation One Academy. "We are teaching our students academics, but for them to see college students and to be a part of what they're doing will be so valuable. U of H is right here in their neighborhood. We know this is going to help them focus on the future and know what we mean when we talk about applying academics to the real world."

Dream It Houston's students will host a Dream It, Do It camp this summer, inviting Generation One fifth and sixth graders for a workshop to teach them business skills, culminating in a business competition. Dream It will award a deserving student a scholarship for educational advancement.

For more information or to make a donation go to Dream It Houston at dreamithouston.com or call 832.928.5304; to learn more about Generation One, visit www.generationone.net or call 281-627-1837.

Pictured from left to right in Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship blazers are Paul Musa, Christopher Wick and Robert Rantz. Standing with them are, from left to right, Bill Bash, General Manager for Generation One, and Carlos Winn, Development Director for Generation One. For more information or to make a donation go to Dream It Houston at dreamithouston.com or call 832.928.5304; to learn more about Generation One, visit www.generationone.net or call 281-627-1837.

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