At first, Nehemiah Edwards wasn’t buying it.
Sitting in a room of eighth-graders five years ago, the middle schooler was told the sky is the limit for his education and success – he could be whatever he wanted to be, live wherever he wanted to live and have complete control over his destiny.
“They had big plans for us,” said Edwards, who was extremely skeptical during his first encounter with Dream Chasing, a program that takes the dreams of children and places them within reach.
“I didn’t know what to make of the program, but I decided to stick with it,” Edwards said. “I dreamed of going to college, but I didn’t think I was going to get there. As we got further with the program and hearing them talk, I started to believe it.”
In less than a month, he will graduate from Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School with honors and is heading to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall, where he will study computer engineering.