2024-2025 Highlights

In this 30th year of operation, 37 students participated in the program, more than ever before! Twenty-six completed the year.
5 students became PADI Open-Water certified divers.
5 students became Water Safety Instructors.
Students learned to geo-track.
On Earth Day 2024, TAP was represented in the Nashville Outdoor Recreation Festival.
Students held a swim-a-thon that raised more than $15,000 for the program.
Students learned in the Collective Approach to Restoring Our Ecosystems (CARES) Program.
Students practiced TAP elevator speeches about the program.
Students took two creative writing classes and some are being featured in a book to be published about Black people and water.
Students volunteered for Swim Across America swim-a-thon to raise money for cancer research.
Students had two sessions about financial literacy.
TAP went skiing in Ohio at the invitation of See You at the Top (SYATT) at Peak and Peek Resort in NY.
TAP completed one phase of Wilderness Survival.
TAP has 1 EarthEcho Ambassador who lead the group in monitoring the water quality of Whites Creek.
TAP received several grants, which it greatly appreciates.
2 students graduated from high school and TAP.
Several divers participated in a YDWP Empowerment Camp in Pelham, AL.
TAP held a 30-year anniversary celebration and honored many of the earliest volunteers and co-founder Willie Sweet.

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