Who are the challenge foundation students?

Each year the Challenge Foundation offers thirteen scholarships to students throughout the Denver area. Students attend a college-preparatory middle school and high school at either St. Mary’s Academy or Colorado Academy starting in the 6th grade. Each student receives a mentor for the seven years they are in the program as well as any support, such as tutoring, that would help them be more successful.

Selection of Challenge Foundation Scholars

Students are selected from pockets of poverty with Denver’s highest crime rates, unemployment, gang activity, single-parent families and dropout rates.  Schools located in the most impoverished neighborhoods of the inner city recommend students of all races and all faiths for our scholarships.  Qualifications are as follows.  Students must:

• Be intelligent, ambitious, hard-working students
• Be respectful to adults and peers
• Possess a strong desire to graduate from high school and attend college
• Be willing to make a significant commitment of time and effort
• Have strong parental support for this commitment
• Be economically disadvantaged, unable to afford the education and resources

Requirements of Challenge Foundation Scholars

In order to foster success, the program has specific goals for our students.  We require that they strive to do their best in all aspects of the program.  They must work to their full academic potential, have excellent attendance, meet school discipline requirements, participate in community service projects and be positive role models in their schools - all which will contribute to success in their personal and professional lives.  Students are also required to stay after school one day per week to attend a Challenge Foundation study hall, called WorkWise!

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Apply to be a Challenge Foundation Student

Download the application below and fill it out and mail it to The Challenge Foundation, or hand it to anyone you know in The Challenge Foundation.

• Student Application
• Parent Application for a Student
• Parent Application for a Student in Spanish

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Please mail, fax, or email the application to:
The Challenge Foundation
4545 S. University Blvd.
Englewood, CO 80110
Fax: 303-783-6201