The Washington Tennis & Education Foundation (WTEF), founded in 1955, is a leader in the best practice of providing academic enrichment, supplemented by tennis and life skills instruction, as a means for developing the skills necessary to achieve academic and personal success. Our mission is to improve the life prospects of DC-area youth, particularly those from lower-income communities. We believe in developing minds in the classroom and on the tennis court. The skills our children master through tennis - discipline, self-confidence, goal-setting, self-reliance and teamwork – are the same skills we show them how to use in the classroom to help them succeed academically and lead a positive life path.