At an orientation dinner for a Knoxville summer program for aspiring finance students, two sets of parents meet before saying goodbye to their children for a week. They discuss the project that Lausanne Collegiate School student Christian Love (11) is working on. After dinner, Tre Suggs (11) learns of the website Love has set out to create through his parents. Interested, he gets to know Love over the course of the week. They find that despite being total strangers, they have a lot in common. They are both Memphians, they have mutual friends and they share the goal of making opportunities for high school students more available and publicized. Together, armed with shared ideals, they flesh out the idea of Opportunity Bridge 901.
Opportunity Bridge 901 is a website designed and run by Love and Suggs to make experiences such as competitions, internships and volunteer opportunities more easily accessible to students.
“Opportunity Bridge is a website for all students,” Suggs said. “They can go on there and see different opportunities like leadership. If there’s a leadership [opportunity] or summer experiences or different clubs that might be outside of school things, they can see that on one platform. So no matter what school they go to or how their counselors send out information, they can see it.”…