Seven Orange County high school seniors received a big surprise from the nonprofit organization, Elevate Orlando--a mentoring program that not only creates relationships with at-risk youth but helps them achieve their goals of going to college and becoming productive citizens. “We teach character development to students that have Elevate as an elective so they come to us every day, and we hire these fabulous teacher mentors and in after school, they mentor them,” Sherry Paramore, president of the organization said.
Elevate Orlando awarded a total of $25,000 in scholarships to students from Jose, Oak Ridge and Evans High schools. News 6 was there when Bryce Chery was surprised with a $2,500 McGill scholarship.