Home Sweet Home- Coming back from L.A

Estefanie and I,Anjelica, due to our great attitude and leadership in the Y.A.B just came back from L.A for a Youth Summit. The Y.A.B is a great group of kids that are determined to make a difference. My partner,Estefanie, and I traveled to L.A to participate in the Youth Summit and display our projects to other schools. While we were in L.A we did many things like sight-seeing, youth leadership training games, and making new friends. During our training we focused on communicating,sharing the workload,and the skills a leader needs. We learned these topics by playing interactive games with each other and socializing. Believe me when I say this, the kids at the Summit are the leaders of tomorrow. One thing I learned and would like to share with my fellow peers and students is that no one can tell you if it's wrong or right, it's a matter of opinion. In L.A we also presented our projects like Safe Driving, Healthy Living, and the RBJ Center. Thanks to our hard effort and trip to L.A the Y.A.B feels we made a great impact on the community by awaring them of many things like auto safety and healthy living. We also, feel we made a great impact on the community because we hope that people start caring for the elderly and their own body. Before I say goodbye for now, I would love (not like) to thank NCLR on behalf of the Y.A.B for granting us this great opportunity.

Estefanie & Anjelica Head To Cali!

Recently two of our members have been chosen to go to L.A to present to other schools about Healthy Living and other topics. Thanks to NCLR and  our fantastic leader, Ms.Silva we will show off our skills and progress to other kids. Congrats yabbies, Estefanie and Anjelica! They will leave sunday and spend three days in L.A sight seeing,teaching of healthy living, and learning of topics that others face. We already miss you! Good luck and have fun!

(left) Estefanie F. (right) Anjelica Z.

Dr.Seuss' Green Eggs and Turkey

On March 2, 2013 we the Y.A.B, EAPrep's cheerleaders, and the community came together and celebrated Dr. Seuss and his birthday. Our drama club did different plays including Green Eggs and Ham, Oh The Thinks You Can Think, and Happy Birthday Dr.Seuss! Orchestra played a couple songs. The cheerleaders danced for the audience. Booths were a hit. Some booths included reading,making Seuss hats, creating mud balls, martial arts, game designing, and many more. Oh, and by the way the Y.A.B had a great  number of people at our booth. The booth was called Green Eggs and Turkey and had little egg facts in green eggs and samples of turkey were passed out. "Turkey is way better than ham!" the Y.A.B heard from families and little kids munching on turkey and drinking sweet lemonade. Overall the event was a huge success! Happy Birthday Dr.Seuss and the Y.A.B can't wait till next year. The Dr.Seuss might be an annual thing so if you missed it this time then you'll have plenty of chances to see silly faces and create hats and mud balls!

Healthy Living & Safe Driving Games

Steven Ugalde (YAB Vice President) 

Arlette Flores (YAB President) 

I am not completely finished yet, but what happens in the game is that the player must find the hidden objects, which are healthy and unhealthy foods. When you click on an object nutrition facts should come up, that's the part I am not done with yet. Sometimes when people go to restaurants they don't really know what they are putting in their bodies, that is what I am trying to inform the player.

Jennifer Goinzalez (YAB Member) 

Fun with RBJ

Recently we have gone to RBJ yet again and let me just say, it was a hit! Our school cheerleaders and student council joined us and we helped the residents with origami, coloring, and dancing. They might be old but, they still had moves. We danced to the Cupid Shuffle and chatted amongst one another. Talking about life and how exciting the event is. The residents were filled with giddy and were so excited they even got mad when we were a bit late. In conclusion, the event at RBJ was fantastic and the Y.A.B hope to have another event coming soon!

Join YAB at RBJ!

Hey guys! The Y.A.B (Youth Advisory Board) are planning another trip to  RBJ(Rebekah Baines Johnson Center for the Elderly and Disabled) and are looking for some volunteers! Who's up for a little fun with the elderly. If you come you get to help the residents make origami and other crafts. The residents love to see new young faces, so please if you can come! Enjoy some fun and laughs. We can only have so many people so the first 20 people can come but, if you don't come this time you will automatically be put in our next trip. Comment fast before it's too late! Permission Slips go out on Thursday February 21,2013.

Diversity Leadership Conference

We had such a great time at St. Stephens! We met with people just like us and got the chance to express ourselves. We played games,ate delicious food, and did different workshops. Some of the members cried because we had opened up to people about our life. All the while our supervisor was great when it came to listening to us chatter and brag about our new friends. We planned what we were going to bring to school. We,the Y.A.B, plan to start a mentorship for kids at our school and help them deal with things like school work and home. By creating this mentorship we will be the secret diaries for the kids and we hope to expand to our other campus at Jain Lane.