The Hall Pass Tour traveled to five Oregon schools, leading workshops on discovering passions and setting goals, and ending with an energy-packed concert and pep rally.
Elizabeth Gonzalez, a graduate of Madras High School studying at OSU, will head to Washington D.C. to learn advocacy and leadership skills to be used to tell the GEAR UP story.
Nearly 50 percent of all Hispanic graduates at Hermiston High School were enrolled in college by fall term, all but closing the Hispanic to Caucasian college-attending achievement gap.
"This first year of college has opened my eyes a lot to what I can become," says John Cheney, a freshman at Willamette University and a graduate of Central High School in Independence.