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Expanding access to hUGO mentorshipS

Support our scholarship program, Hugo Scholars, to provide transformative experiences for historically excluded students and make a difference in narrowing the achievement gap.

Help us provide fully-funded scholarships for bright and motivated high school students to work 1:1 with academic experts from leading universities around their interest areas.

Students gain skills as well as confidence, clarity, and connections to help them succeed in college and life.

For the past 5 summers, we have operated a self-funded scholarship program that has garnered the highest feedback scores from students.

Hugo partners with schools and organizations such as Prep for Prep for our scholarship program. Read about their experience here.

Contribute today

Make a secure donation today and help narrow the achievement gap.

Hugo Scholars, our scholarship program, is fiscally sponsored by the Goodnation Foundation, which works to make philanthropy more effective and meaningful while creating an impact on our country's and communities’ toughest challenges. Your secure donation through the Goodnation Foundation is fully tax-deductible and will support Hugo’s scholarships.

Interested in supporting our program with a challenge match, endowed mentorship or want to discuss other types of giving opportunities? Please email us at info@hugomentors.com

Sample mentorships

Our students explore topics built around their interests and develop projects that can have an impact on their communities and shape their future trajectories. Below are some examples of past mentorships.

A paper and presentation proposing a new framework for civic engagement at the high-school level

Foldable solar cell that was designed using mathematical principles of symplectic geometry through origami

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Engineering
Engineering
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Sustainability
Sustainability
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Original website sharing historical, political and economical information on the global refugee crisis with resources encouraging advocacy

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Global Affairs
Global Affairs
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History
History
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Public Policy
Public Policy
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Political Science
Political Science
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Read more about our approach

I LOVED working with my mentor because she was both extremely helpful in guiding my research and pushed me to come up with my own ideas and find my own resources. I had such stimulating conversations with her that helped me develop my interests and challenge some of my preconceptions.

Maya
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I LOVED working with my mentor because she was both extremely helpful in guiding my research and pushed me to come up with my own ideas and find my own resources. I had such stimulating conversations with her that helped me develop my interests and challenge some of my preconceptions.

Maya
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"It was a transformative experience...it has inspired me greatly to continue understanding civic engagement in the upcoming years of my life...I will remember my time with her as a period where I learned just as much about myself as I did the material."

Sebastian
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