This spring, more than 3,700 Riverbat students are invited to participate in the Austin Community 2026 Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 14, at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of those students is Jasmine Woods, who is graduating high school, way ahead of the game. The 18-year-old Akins Early College High School graduate is earning her General Associates in Arts. Now, as she plans to enroll in a four-year university this fall, she is already halfway to a bachelor’s degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more about his path to graduation below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why did you choose ACC?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I chose ACC because it was a great opportunity to get ahead with college classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What challenge did you overcome on your way to graduation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A challenge I overcame was having to take four ACC classes while trying to maintain a full schedule at my high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Was there a moment you knew you were on the right path?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I knew I was on the right path when it was time to look at degree plans. I saw that from doing all these classes, I had half of my classes done before I went to university. I knew I made the right choice of being an ACC dual-credit student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Any faculty or staff you\u2019d like to recognize?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I would like to recognize Ms. Katie Poe because without her, I would not have been able to get the classes nor the support. She\u2019s been with us since we started high school, and we basically grew up with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are you most proud of from your time here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Something I\u2019m most proud of is just graduating in general. Not everyone can say they graduated from college before high school ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After I graduate from ACC and Akins, I plan to attend the University of Texas at Austin. And try to transfer into UT’s School of Nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What advice would you give someone considering college? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I would say to just go for it. Originally, I was thinking being an ECHS student would be difficult and challenging. It was, but the reward is so much greater in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This spring, more than 3,700 Riverbat students are invited to participate in the Austin Community 2026 Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 14, at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park. One of those students is Jasmine Woods, who is graduating high school, way ahead of the game. The 18-year-old Akins Early College High School graduate is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":52328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1561,489,186,487,1526,1527],"class_list":["post-52327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-stories","tag-akins","tag-early-college-high-school","tag-general-studies","tag-heb-center","tag-spring-2026-commencement","tag-spring-2026-graduation","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52329,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52327\/revisions\/52329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}