{"id":345,"date":"2022-05-05T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:38:12","slug":"looking-forward-pace-girls-share-their-aspirations-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacecenter.org\/stories\/looking-forward-pace-girls-share-their-aspirations-for-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward: Pace Girls Share Their Aspirations for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At Pace, we celebrate all our girls\u2019 successes as they look towards the future! College Signing Day is celebrated on May 7, an initiative presented by Better Make Room that aims to inspire students to reach higher. This day celebrates all students committed to pursuing an education past high school, whether at a professional training program, the military, a community college or a four-year college or university.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We sat down with three Pace girls who shared their interests and aspirations for the future:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cComing to Pace really helped me. I learned that if the people around you aren\u2019t helping you grow, they shouldn\u2019t be in your life,\u201d said Karimah from Pace Palm Beach. \u201cAfter Pace, I want to go to college. I like psychology and criminology a lot. I like thinking about what people think, and why they’re thinking it. I also love writing \u2014 it\u2019s so fun to me. If I could do anything in the world without any constraints, I would be a writer. I\u2019m not sure career-wise, but there are so many opportunities.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n

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Quinn from Pace Escambia-Santa Rosa shared: \u201cMy passion is music, music theory, and teaching others what\u2019s fun about music. My love of music came from my dad. He had a little area in our house where he had all his instruments. He taught me to play so many things on the guitar, and really finding how much I loved it came from him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Pace, I didn\u2019t accept help for a long time. I was in denial. Finally, I decided to go into a GED program, and I graduated with really good scores in about a month. I\u2019m focused on [applying to] Pensacola State College because my dad\u2019s old music teacher is still there. I want to learn under him and eventually teach students music theory.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idali, also from Pace Palm Beach, explained: \u201cAfter Pace, I want to go to college. Currently, I work at Starbucks, and they have this program where they pay for tuition for Arizona State online. I want to take advantage of free college. I want to learn something in psychology or sociology. Growing up, I watched a lot of shows on law enforcement, which gave me a passion to be a profiler and to study how humans think and behave. I\u2019m interested in joining law enforcement, and that\u2019s my dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1985, Pace has supported more than 40,000 girls with our personalized approach, empowering girls to reach their highest potential and showing them that a life of love, success and happiness is possible. At Pace, seven out of 10 teen girls graduate from high school, pursue higher education or secure employment, and nine out of 10 have experienced overall academic improvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Pace\u2019s academic progra<\/a>ms.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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