About Omega U

Mission

The mission of Omega U is to partner with Prince William County Public Schools (PWCPS) in mentoring, exposing, and enabling students to develop their confidence and personal skills through pre-collegiate initiatives, career readiness, and community service projects. The Omega U program executes, on average, 25 annual weekend events for students from participating Prince William County (PWC) and the surrounding area’s middle and high school campuses. The program plans and executes over 40 hours of community service within each school calendar year. In addition, Omega U provides tutoring, character development, STEAM projects, reading, SOL preparation, memorization, speaking, writing, career awareness, and readiness for 130+ students who participate in mentoring. Omega U provided SPARK, a PWCPS charitable 501(c)(3) organization, in-kind services of $20,000.

Why Omega U?

We are a premier mentoring program in Prince William County that conducts activities in various middle and high schools. Omega U is free to parents, but we require only participation in the various activities.

Partners

Omega U has a number of partners that assist with providing resources that allow us to provide a world-class experience for the young men in the program.

Omega U Pillars for Excellence

The Omega U program aims to support the Prince William County Schools in providing students World Class Education for participating students in the greater Prince William County and surrounding areas by using 4 pillars of the program. Omega U’s pillars of success are built on the following:

  1. Guidance and general practice in the daily application of Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, and Uplift
  2. Fatherhood Initiative and mentorship to students and fathers of and around the greater Prince William County communities
  3. College readiness & career preparation
  4. Social networking and daily application of soft skills

What are Our Programs

Pre-College Initiative

Omega U program holds a Scholarship Workshop presentation hosted by the PLL Scholarship Committee. The Scholarship Committee formulates a roadmap for the students to follow so they can attend a college of their choosing. We provide those tools to our mentees.

Career Readiness

The objective is to prepare our students for their future goals with the hope that perhaps their road to a career will be less challenging. Topics that are presented and reinforced are the utilization of effective critical thinking, contributing members of society, and self-awareness to understand the various career opportunities and make informed decisions.

Financial Literacy/Wealth Management

Omega U conducts classes on Financial literacy, which is the ability to understand and effectively use various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy can be defined as a combination of financial awareness, knowledge, skills, attitude, and behavior necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve individual financial well-being.

STEAM

Omega U participates in a STEAM program hosted by EduCerc. Leading the charge to educate students in STEAM for Prince William County in Virginia, Omega U partnered with EduSerc to create an innovative experience in STEAM for middle and high school youth in the area of aeronautical engineering. Over the course of one week, students learned about the engineering process to develop requirements, design, build, test, and fly a model airplane from scratch. EduSerc hosts programs all over the country for summer, after-school, and in-school residency-targeted groups for the 5th -12th grades.

Community Service

The objective is to allow the Omega U mentees to perform work in the local area for the benefit and betterment of our community by contributing to a noble cause. This will help them understand the skills and importance of paying forward.

Omega U History

Omega U is an after-school mentoring program founded at Potomac Middle School of Dumfries, Virginia, in 2009. Omega U expanded the after-school program to Potomac High, Freedom High, & George Hampton Middle Schools in 2016, and Henderson Elementary, Osbourne Park, and Colgan High Schools in 2017. Omega U proudly serves students from 5th grade to graduating high school seniors in and around the greater Prince William County community.

The Omega U program provides over 25 joint programs from all participating PWC campuses to include over 50 hours of community service projects within the program. All students in PWC are welcome and encouraged to join the Omega U program. Students and parents within PWC and surrounding school districts are able to join and participate in weekend activities that include community service projects, college campus tours, and lectures.

The support of the George M. Hampton non-profit Foundation and donations from community support and members of Pi Lambda Lambda of Omega Psi Phi Inc., of Dumfries Virginia funds Omega U. There are no costs to students and parents to participate in Omega U. Parents are highly encouraged to participate in Omega U activities when applicable as well as provide fundraiser support to the Omega U programs.

Omega U Visit to the Pentagon and Meeting the Secertary of Defense, Honorable Lloyd Austin.

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