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# We're Just Getting Started!
- URL: https://rioprogress.org/just-getting-started/
- Published: 2023-03-26T23:45:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-29T05:22:52.000Z
- Description: This is Rio Progress, an organization created to prepare students to embrace the opportunities that lie in education. Our founder Maria Martinez grew up in Brownsville, Texas seeing first hand how students here have unmatched potential to access the nations best institutions, programs, and careers.
- Author: Maria Fernanda Martinez
- Tags: Intro

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This is Rio Progress, an organization created to prepare students to embrace the opportunities that lie in education. Our founder Maria Martinez grew up in Brownsville, Texas seeing first hand how students here have unmatched potential to access the nations best institutions, programs, and careers.

We've already helped students in Brownsville and Los Fresnos Public schools gain access to out of this world internships, scholarships, and universities in the states and overseas.