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High School Students Bring Stem Resources to Their District and Across the World
The Pathways to Progress Club at The Woodlands College Park High School
TH WOODLANDS, TX -- Victoria Velasquez and Adam Siddiqi founded Pathways Toward Progress, a student-led club at The Woodlands College Park, dedicated to academic resources, career advice, mentorship, and STEM opportunities to underserved students locally and abroad.
Founding a Club
At the start of her freshman year in 2022, Victoria Velasquez began to share her passion for math by tutoring English as a Second Language (ESL) students in Algebra. During her teaching of difficult math concepts to these ESL students, she noticed some educational gaps found within them, particularly to their logic and specific calculations. This led to Victoria wanting to sprout a seed of change to inspire and instill educational preservation and close the gaps within her community. Her main focus that year was to tutor dozens of students, which helped them towards the goal of completing and passing the Algebra STAAR.
Fast forward to the fall of 2023, Victoria Velasquez and Adam Siddiqi founded Pathways Toward Progress, a student-led club at The Woodlands College Park, dedicated to provide academic resources, career advice, mentorship, and STEM opportunities to underserved students.
Spreading the Word
After a couple of meetings, Victoria and Adam devised a plan to spread their resources beyond their school’s boundary. By making a variety of materials like STAAR Test explanation keys, videos, Google Slides, and explaining different math tricks, they hoped to disseminate their materials by sending them widely across Conroe ISD schools.
In addition to bi-weekly classes about finance, resume building, career clusters, and math, Victoria and Adam continued tutoring and reached out to McCullough Junior High, teaching ESL students some basic arithmetic and Algebraic logic.
Making Meaningful Connections
In the summer going into their junior year, Victoria and Adam not only wanted to serve their own community, but also aid communities across the world in which education is not as widely accessible and equitable, all with the goal to help and serve. During the summer, exactly one year after its founding, Pathways began reaching out to other organizations internationally in Peru and Mexico. Sure enough, after extensive outreach and coordination, Victoria and Adam partnered up with a Peruvian-British non-profit to provide free virtual coding lessons to over 200 students in a 10-week period.
Maintaining Impact
Now, Pathways Toward Progress is certified as a 501(c) charity dedicated day and night to teaching other students through online platforms and digital creation, and bringing STEM opportunities to all regardless of language, location, or economic status.
Pathways Toward Progress Bridges the Gap One Student at a Time
Founding a Club
At the start of her freshman year in 2022, Victoria Velasquez began to share her passion for math by tutoring English as a Second Language (ESL) students in Algebra. During her teaching of difficult math concepts to these ESL students, she noticed some educational gaps found within them, particularly to their logic and specific calculations. This led to Victoria wanting to sprout a seed of change to inspire and instill educational preservation and close the gaps within her community. Her main focus that year was to tutor dozens of students, which helped them towards the goal of completing and passing the Algebra STAAR.
Fast forward to the fall of 2023, Victoria Velasquez and Adam Siddiqi founded Pathways Toward Progress, a student-led club at The Woodlands College Park, dedicated to provide academic resources, career advice, mentorship, and STEM opportunities to underserved students.
Spreading the Word
After a couple of meetings, Victoria and Adam devised a plan to spread their resources beyond their school’s boundary. By making a variety of materials like STAAR Test explanation keys, videos, Google Slides, and explaining different math tricks, they hoped to disseminate their materials by sending them widely across Conroe ISD schools.
In addition to bi-weekly classes about finance, resume building, career clusters, and math, Victoria and Adam continued tutoring and reached out to McCullough Junior High, teaching ESL students some basic arithmetic and Algebraic logic.
Making Meaningful Connections
In the summer going into their junior year, Victoria and Adam not only wanted to serve their own community, but also aid communities across the world in which education is not as widely accessible and equitable, all with the goal to help and serve. During the summer, exactly one year after its founding, Pathways began reaching out to other organizations internationally in Peru and Mexico. Sure enough, after extensive outreach and coordination, Victoria and Adam partnered up with a Peruvian-British non-profit to provide free virtual coding lessons to over 200 students in a 10-week period.
Maintaining Impact
Now, Pathways Toward Progress is certified as a 501(c) charity dedicated day and night to teaching other students through online platforms and digital creation, and bringing STEM opportunities to all regardless of language, location, or economic status.
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