New college graduates celebrate

This story appeared in the Summit Daily News on May 4, 2024.

By Kit Geary

Sylvaking Addo has long had aspirations to work in the culinary industry. By the end of his senior year, the former Gateway High School (Aurora) student started looking into what opportunities exist in the field.

At that time, Addo had only been in the U.S. for around seven years. No one in his family of Ghanian immigrants had ever gone to college before – college applications were a completely foreign concept.

Addo said luckily a teacher at his school took him under their wing and began helping him with the college process. The price of school was astonishing, and Addo feared he would be in debt for decades if he chose the college route.

Addo’s teacher was on an email list for Colorado Mountain College and one day got a news blast about the culinary program at the college’s Breckenridge campus, and this changed everything.

Read the complete story in the Summit Daily News.