Hello Donors, Mentors & Friends!
February was an exciting and eventful month filled with inspiring opportunities for our students. We hosted our first Student-Mentor-Parent meeting of the school year, toured the campus of UCLA, held a workshop on majors and minors, and started to provide one-on-one tutoring and homework help to our students. Thank you for the contributions that you have made to make each of these opportunities available to our students!A Beautiful Day at UCLA
Earlier this month our 9th and 10th graders had the opportunity to travel to west Los Angeles to visit the beautiful and historic UCLA campus. On our guided tour of the campus, students received a firsthand look at some of the most important places at the university and learned about the many unique social and academic opportunities that UCLA has to offer. Following the tour, students were able to experience a bit of what life as a UCLA student is like as they enjoyed the amazing all-you-can eat food at Hedrick dining hall.
10th grader Leslie Contreras, who is interested in studying to become a doctor, was excited to learn about UCLA’s biology program and the opportunity medical students have to work at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Learning about these opportunities was inspiring for many of our students like Leslie who concluded during our debrief time, “I really want to attend UCLA and I’ll work really hard to achieve that goal.”
Our First Student-Mentor-Parent Meeting
At JOYA Scholars we believe that parental involvement plays a key role in promoting student accountability, motivation, and academic progress and therefore is essential to fulfilling our mission of inspiring and preparing students to succeed in higher education. In order to facilitate parental involvement in the college preparation process we invite the parents of our students to participate in our meetings on a quarterly basis.This February, we hosted our first Student-Mentor-Parent meeting of the school year, which provided a unique and valuable opportunity for the parents to get to know the mentors in our program and to learn more about what the students have been learning and working on in our past five months together. Mentors talked with the parents about where they attended college, what they studied, and their current occupation. Students then had the opportunity to review their College Ready Plans and College Journey Maps with their parents. Our time together was truly encouraging and impactful as we witnessed the parents’ enthusiasm for our program’s goals and their support of our work.
Announcement
Our goal is to have 100 people donate 100 dollars towards the ongoing support of our Mentoring Program.
Please consider being a part of helping us reach this goal by donating to our program or by creating your own fundraising page to invite those you know to donate to our cause!
Click here to learn more about the 100 Campaign, create your own fundraising page, or donate to JOYA Scholars.
Final Note
Thank you for reading! We trust that you have been encouraged to learn about some of the exciting things that have been happening for the students in our mentoring program. If you'd like to learn more about getting involved with JOYA Scholars please contact Bianca, our Program Director, atbiancapena@joyascholars.org or 714.322.JOYA. Thank you!
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