Sprouting Wings offers at risk children a chance to learn about science, gain social skills, and be impacted by adult volunteers. The volunteers are very important to the success of the program. The more volunteers that are present, the more one on one attention the students receive. Many of these children are not "problem children" in the sense that they are violent. Most of them are asked to be in the program if they have a learning disability or have a family history of quitting school.

Sprouting Wings showed me how much of an impact I could have on a child by simply giving three hours a week. These children have the potential, with added attention and encouragement, to be beneficial to society. Sadly, they also have the potential to be a burden on society. This program identifies these children at an early age and heads them in the right direction. It is an amazing sight to see the pride these children take in their added knowledge of science. Because with this added knowledge they feel that they are on the same level as their peers or even higher, and we all know how important self-esteem is in the development of a child.

While volunteering with this program, I learned from the children as much or as more as they learned from me. Often times I would wonder how some of these children would end up had they not been fortunate enough to participate in this program. And furthermore would they be the ones on the evening news getting arrested? These children taught me how important it is to give back to the community so that we can ensure that our community is safe with our future generations.