Feb 28, 2025
Featured in Houston Landing, this Q&A highlights Breakthrough Houston’s 30-year legacy of expanding access to rigorous academic enrichment for motivated students across the city. Executive Director Angie Wedlick shares how the organization connects middle and high...
Feb 28, 2023
Reginald DesRoches Dr. Reginald DesRoches, Rice University’s eighth President, speaks on educational equity at Breakthrough’s Cultivating Growth Luncheon. “Education dramatically changed my life. The hard-earned opportunities my siblings and I were able to pursue...
Feb 28, 2023
Linh Nguyen Linh Nguyen, the proud daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, is now a senior at Rice University. She relocates to Manhattan next fall having already accepted a job with Capital One as a software developer. “Without Breakthrough Houston, hundreds of kids –...
Feb 28, 2023
Mahi Tessema Tigi Mekonnen, mother of Breakthrough student, Mahi Tessema, joins her daughter at the Cultivating Growth Luncheon where Tessema shares her Breakthrough experience and talks of attending Dartmouth next fall. “Next fall at Dartmouth, I’ll major in...
Feb 28, 2023
Mahi TessemaTigi Mekonnen, mother of Breakthrough student Mahi Tessema, joins her daughter at the Cultivating Growth Luncheon where Tessema shares her Breakthrough experience and talks of attending Dartmouth next fall. “Next fall at Dartmouth, I’ll major...
Aug 19, 2022
By: Kaela LeBlanc-Palmer Breakthrough Houston Teaching Fellow, SJS Summer 2022 Passion is Non-Negotiable As I began my path toward a career in education, I made a promise to myself, and ultimately to every child I would encounter in my classroom: I would assure them...
