TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On Tuesday morning, dozens of Tampa elementary school students hit the road to Orlando to visit the University of Central Florida.

The goal of the trip is to motivate IDEA Victory Academy’s third through fifth graders, that are part of a tutoring program, to get good grades.

The Academy’s message is that it is never too early to start thinking about your future, and students in the tutoring program are taking these words to heart.

“I think it will encourage me to go to college, so I can accomplish my dreams of being a doctor,” said fourth grader, Chaleriany Juarez.

For a lot of these students, they would be the first ones in their family to go to college.

“I’m so happy that we’re going, because when we go, when I grow older and I go to college, I can probably go to that college. I think, I’m going to work hard and get good grades and go to college,” said Lilyian Williams, a third grader.

“I will be the first one to go to college because my mom didn’t finish studying, so she didn’t get to go,” Juarez said.

“I tell her every day, ‘Mama couldn’t do it, it’s okay, there’s a long life, honey, and if I didn’t get to do it, I want you to do it’,” said Kashera JuarezGarrasteguy, Juarez’s mother.

Precious Daniels is the teacher behind creating the tutoring program.

“After speaking to a lot of my scholars, a lot of them have never been to a university or heard of one. So, this is a wonderful opportunity to start them early,” she said.

The third-grade teacher said she wants her students to dream bigger.

“So, instead of passing the next grade, I want them to say, ‘I want to pass all of these grades to get to wherever I need to attend the university I want to go to’,” Daniels said.

The program now has a dozen teachers across ten classrooms, and everyone is seeing improvements when it comes to the students’ grades.

“It’s been helping me a lot, because, at first, I was getting level 1s, now, since I’ve been in tutoring, I’ve been getting level 2s, level 3s, and in my reading class, I had got a level 4,” Williams said.

“I used to get level 1s, level 2s on my test, but now I get level 3s, level 4s, and level 5s on my tests,” Juarez said.

“She’s been doing great, she’s actually been scoring higher levels, doing better in her math and reading,” said JuarezGarrasteguy.

The tutoring program is also helping students with their confidence. All of the kids that get to go on the trip are getting rewarded for all of their hard work.