Talent Connections

Talent Connections is a blog and monthly newsletter sharing updates and highlights from Flint & Genesee Education & Talent programs including TeenQuest, Summer Youth Initiative (SYI) and Flint Promise. Readers can also learn about local employers, find out where TeenQuest students are today, talent programs in the area, and find job openings.

Living Up to the Promise: Tyena Neely

April 15, 2025 | Talent Connections, Flint Promise

Tyena Neely has known she wanted to be a teacher her whole life. “I knew I wanted to be a teacher since I was 3,” says Neely. “I love kids. […]

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Living Up to the Promise: Cristian Rodriguez

December 17, 2024 | Talent Connections, Flint Promise

Cristian Rodriguez is on a mission. The 2018 Powers High School graduate wasn’t certain what he wanted to do when he went off to college, but he was full of […]

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Kettering University Welcomes Its First Flint Promise Scholar graduates

April 8, 2024 | Talent Connections, Flint Promise

For Michael Young and Blase Haynes, college was a hope but not a surety. Both aspired to go to college and had dreams beyond that, but neither was sure they […]

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Take advantage of these scholarship opportunities

April 8, 2024 | Talent Connections, Education & Training, Flint Promise

With the 2024 school year ending, high school students might be wondering about their next steps. Those considering going to a college, university, or trade school will want to pay […]

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On the Job: Briana Scott

January 8, 2024 | Talent Connections, Education & Training, Flint Promise, Summer Youth Initiative (SYI), TeenQuest

Briana Scott is driven to work with area youth. Scott is a 2019 graduate of Genesee Early College (GEC) and learned about TeenQuest in 2015 through a friend who was […]

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Flint Promise Scholars Share Why Women’s History Month is Important

March 6, 2023 | Talent Connections, Flint Promise

Women’s History Month began as a weeklong celebration of women in 1982, but over the years slowly evolved into a month-long focus on the powerful contributions of women beginning in […]

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Two teenage girls wear black graduation gowns and caps stand on both side of a blue metal sign that spells out the word Flint

Executive Perspective: National Scholarship Month

October 31, 2022 | Talent Connections, Education & Training, Flint Promise

By Dr. Kimberly Leverette November is an exciting time during the school year. Students are getting into the thick of learning without looking forward too far to holiday break; diving […]

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The future is bright for Flint Promise graduates

June 7, 2022 | Talent Connections, Flint Promise

Four years ago, Percivierre Whitmore was in his final year at Mott Middle College. He was graduating with both a high school diploma and an associate degree but wasn’t sure […]

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