Our students are incredibly engaged and are interested in more opportunities. By allowing our program to expand to more activities, to more hours, other sites, and to include both entrepreneurial, 21st century skill building along with outlets for creative expression; our students will be able to build on their successes as well as have the agency and opportunities to do so. By allowing students to connect with open studio time, we develop young artists who work hard at their craft. By having the studio time supervised and at a community center, we create opportunities for personal and artistic mentorship and community involvement to occur. By offering paid gigs to our students, we light the entrepreneurial fire within them. By allowing them to be paid, they learn self presentation skills, financial skills, work decorum and good habits, and it isn’t a small thing that they bring the money to their home incomes, which can also have an impact on self efficacy and feelings of economic empowerment.