By Michael Crenshaw Staff Writer
Giving students inspiration, hope and opportunities to expand their learning beyond the classroom, the Future Project has helped students by giving them tools to do things that will get them to accomplish their dreams.
The Future Project is a nonprofit organization meant to transform schools by allowing students to express their dreams and passions then enact plans in their communities and school that will help them toward that goal. The Future Project and its director Toni Jones has supported Renaissance through many projects.
The Stentor has reported on Future Project since the beginning of the school year. As it ends, students are becoming aware and are being positively affected by it.
“I feel like the Future Project has made an impact to those who are involved. I think it will have an even much greater impact if the Future Project grows with the freshman of this year,” said Sophomore Cydney Gardner-Brown
Students involved in Future Project believe that it really is beneficial if you get involved in it. To them it was eye opening.
“I will never forget the Future Project first coming to Renaissance and wondering what it was all about, and all I would hear is ‘it's the organization that makes dreams come true,” said senior Kyla Wright. “As elementary as this sounded to me at the time, that really is what the Future Project is but so much more.”
Starting in the beginning of the school year, the Future Project have completed several projects to unite the school such as a freshman scavenger hunt and starting a blog to encourage students to express their own style.
“The Future Project, to me, is a sign of new hope,” said senior Julius Hurst. “It has affected me by allowing me to do my own project and help students around the school in more ways than just talking.
Just recently, Future Project hosted an event in the lunchroom called UnClique the Clique, a scheme used to break up students grouped together in cliques.
