Alexandra Crowder wasn’t sure what she had gotten herself into when she arrived at The Putney School, an independent high school focused on sustainability and art in the forests of Vermont.
Ashton Mayo-Beavers felt the same way at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she found herself building and preparing remote-controlled robots to battle in an arena.
2018 PASSPORT SCHOLARS
> Ashton Mayo-Beavers, Chattanooga High Center for Creative Arts, Smith College > Jada Brown, Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester > Alexandra Crowder, Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, The Putney School > Sophia Dozier, Sale Creek Middle/High School, University of Rochester > Winter Hillard, Sale Creek Middle/High School, University of Rochester > Deliyah Ledford, Brainerd High School, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Cook Honors College > Kathryn Parks, Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, Smith College > Kendall Stolpmann, Red Bank High School, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Cook Honors College
Kendall Stolpmann never thought she’d ride an airplane – at least not until she was an adult, and definitely not to a college campus in Pennsylvania while she was a sophomore in high school.
These are three of the eight girls who got to travel to college campuses across the country and step outside of their comfort zones as part of the Public Education Foundation’s Passport Scholars program.