Designing Rich Experiences Around Majors (DREAM Kits)
Designing Rich Experiences Around Majors, or DREAM Kits, are presentations where groups engage in academic based activities that relate to a certain college major. In the presentation, our specially trained Access Ambassadors will be ready to answer questions regarding post-secondary options, choosing a major, and support students in learning about their options after high school. DREAM Kit presentations can be scheduled for middle school, high school, after-school, or community college groups.
Our current DREAM Kit Workshops can be focused on the following majors:
If you are interested in requesting a DREAM Kit presentation, please fill out an interest form. We will do our best to accommodate your request.
If your group is ready to take the next step in expanding your college education possibilities and would like to request a DREAM Kit in addition to your UW Tacoma group tour, please contact Admissions at visituwt@uw.edu.

Pathways to Promise



What is Pathways to Promise?
What does your future hold? How can you access college? How can a university education unlock your potential and help strengthen local communities?
The University of Washington Tacoma is dedicated to helping South Puget Sound residents answer these questions. By establishing deep partnerships with school districts, community and military partners, we are creating clear pathways to access the promise of a bright future through a university education.
Resources for K-12 Students
For our participating school districts, specific resources are available to help evaluate career and higher-education options. We work with guidance professionals within each district to support college and career-ready programing, conversations and planning. We tailor our interactions with each school based on the needs of the building and district.
The following school districts are participating in Pathways to Promise: Auburn, Bethel, Chief Leschi, Federal Way, Fife, Franklin Pierce, Kent, Puyallup, Steilacoom, Tacoma and Tahoma.
Resources Through Community
As an urban-serving institution, our goal is to support partners who are developing a college and career-ready culture in the South Puget Sound. These partnerships ensure that potential students, and the organizations that serve them, understand how to prepare for and access post-secondary educational opportunities.
- Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound
- College Success Foundation
Resources
Coloring Sheets
We're happy to share coloring sheets that can be downloaded and used by families and educators to introduce and encourage conversations about college and careers with elementary-age children. Designed by a first-generation college graduate and artist, Cisco Sandoval.
Meet the Team


Marie Perez
Pathways to Promise Programs Specialist
Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education
While I am originally from Wisconsin, I have called the Pacific Northwest home for over twenty years. I have a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, with a Minor in Spanish. The first half of my career was spent in the public school classroom. Over the years I taught grades 6-8, in a middle school setting, focused in the content areas of Reading, Writing, History, and Spanish 1. I am so excited to be a part of the University of Washington family. I look forward to applying my past classroom experience into assisting young, first-generation college students in their preparation of higher education.


Olivia Arnaud
STEM Youth Outreach Coordinator
Junior in Biomedical Sciences
I am a first-generation transfer student at UW Tacoma, and my prospective major is biomedical sciences. After graduating from UW Tacoma, I intend to complete an MD/Ph.D. program. I am passionate about medicine and science, and I am excited to combine those to positively impact the world around me. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, traveling, photography, playing with my dog, and watching movies.