2011 with SPACE

Another year of unforgettable moments with SPACE.

Winter Field Trip

Spring Conference

End of the [School] Year Banquet

SPACE Staff 2010-2011 & 2011-2012

Transition of Admin 

New Staff!

Summer 2011

Family Day

Summer Training

Summer Retreat

Fall 2011

Mid-Year Hiring

Fall Field Trip

SPACE Internship: Fall 2011

SPACE Chrisgiving

SPACE Staff wishes you all a very happy new year!

See you soon!

SPACE Internship & Volunteer Apps Out Now!

We are hiring for SPACE Internship FALL 2011 & for hiring for yearlong volunteers!

Internship consists of weekly internship meetings where we will discuss various topics regarding access. You can attend each of our 3 sites: Belmont High School, Marshall High School, and El Camino Community College. You can kick it with SPACE staff, we’re pretty cool people. And more than anything, I promise you it’ll be a …great learning experience.
Due date is Friday of 2nd week at 5pm.

On-Call Volunteering is a yearlong volunteer position. You will be expected to attend site each quarter and also help us out in our quarterly conferences and field trips. It’s a great way to get involved community service and you will enjoy it meeting our students and staff.

Both positions are open, we are taking in as many applications as possible.

If you have ANY QUESTIONS at all contact Joshua Alegado, Kim Sazon, or any SPACE staff member. Message us, twitter us (@joshyyAYY & @kimsteez), ask for our digits.

Internship Application: CLICK HERE


Volunteer Application: CLICK HERE

Staff Blog: Annalou Lingat

Full Name: Annalou Lingat
Year at UCLA: 2nd year
Major: Psychobiology
SPACE Site: Belmont High School
Position in SPACE: 1st year Peer Tutor

The moment I always think of when I look back at how I became involved in SPACE is when I volunteered for PREP’s (Pilipino Recruitment and Enrichment Program’s)  DIAL (“Day in a Life” of a College Student) conference.  The PREP leaders assigned me to help facilitate a workshop about the different California college systems with a SPACE staff member.   I really enjoyed talking to high school students about college and topics revelant to them.  My experience at DIAL and the push of a SPACE staff member persuaded me to join SPACE staff support (last year’s SPACE internship).  That’s how I got hooked. 

I really enjoyed the fact that I started to get involved with the community and helping others.  Every time I went to site, I loved talking with high school students about their interests, school life, and life in general.  These were topics that I definitely connected to because I was a high school student, myself not too long ago.  But what makes SPACE different from any other peer tutoring and peer advising program is how it challenged me to think beyond what I knew before and question why things are the way they are. 

To say it simply, I love the topics that we discuss during staff meetings, at site, with our students, and with each other.  SPACE  provides a space in which to explore more critically who you are as a person and how you connect with the world and community. 

And even now as a current SPACE staff member, I still feel like my mind is expanding.  I truly appreciate the countless conversations that I have had with SPACE staff members and students that have added to my own growth as a person.  SPACE has helped me become more open-minded about issues and the community. 

 I volunteer for SPACE because I truly believe in the potential of all students and love to learn and listen about their own personal experiences and beliefs.  As a high school peer tutor, I strive to be a form of personal support to everyone in my community.  We don’t just push students to do their homework or score high on their SATs.  We do more than that.  As SPACE staff, we work towards learning about our students’ interests and they can connect their interests to school and the community.

Staff Blog: Anthony Arce

Full Name: Anthony Allen Cubos Arce
Year at UCLA: 2nd year
Major: Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG)
SPACE Site: El Camino College
Position in SPACE: 1st year Peer Advisor

SPACE didn’t pop for me when I was first introduced to the project. I was impressed by the work SPACE staff did, but I knew that this level of structure required a lot of time, effort, and care. Being a microbiology major on the pre-med path, I already had a full schedule. Additionally, I was primarily interested in other organizations that would help me on my way to medicine. However, through observing myself in class, interviews, and presentations and the talks with my mentor and my counselor, I found that I needed to work on my communication and interpersonal skills as well as my confidence. I was coming to this realization during spring quarter, which was around the time that SPACE Staff Support (now SPACE Internship) applications were going around. My mentor suggested this to me as possible avenue for building those desired skills. I decided to go for it because it’d only be a quarter commitment. Why not, right?  Then, that first day of site came. It was so daunting: I had to outreach to students passing by, help make a class presentation, and engage students at site. At the end of that day, I was all tense and fatigued. However, with that, I was also pumped to take on the challenges and step out of my comfort zone. The more days I went to site, the more my approach and skills improved and the more I enjoyed site. The more all of this happened, the faster time flew.

SPACE site was cool. SPACE site was awesome. As my days in staff support dwindled down, I started to think further, deeper and value what SPACE brings to the different sites. When I talked to the students, I hear their stories and the struggles they have faced and will face because of who they are and where they’re coming from. Through the different staff support readings, I have also gained critical thinking skills and a different perception of the world. Sure, I have found countless connections of my future goals to what SPACE does: the access of medicine and the access to education, the control and thus power over certain knowledge and resources, etc. However, more importantly, I realize that these issues are all around us and affect us no matter what field we may choose to pursue. Being aware and knowledgeable, utilizing critical thinking skills, and taking action are prevalent, vital assets.  And despite having learning so much about myself and the world around me from staff support, there was so much more to learn. 

Staff Blog: Kim Sazon

Full Name: Kim Sazon
Year at UCLA: 2nd year
Major: Economics
SPACE Site: Marshall High School
Position in SPACE: 1st year Peer Tutor

When I first joined SPACE, I thought I was going into a normal tutoring program that helped high school students. I was totally wrong. I remember volunteering for the Spring 2010 SPACE Conference not knowing what to expect. At the conference I met many of the students and got to know one in particular. That day was a life changing experience because after we got to know each other she told me her story and I felt a connection with her immediately. Being a recent graduate of high school, I had gone through similar struggles and challenges like her. Now, she is a student at Mount St. Mary’s in the nursing program. I am truly proud of her because she informs me once in a while about her achievements and how she is in college.

She told that because of SPACE helped her grow as a person and as a student. She said she wouldn’t have succeeded in her first semester without SPACE. She tells me every so often that she uses the knowledge she learned from SPACE and is spreading the skills and information.

The sense of community she found in SPACE was something she was able to use for her college experience. She told me that when she entered college she was able to find a sense of community among the other girls because that was something she also found in SPACE.

Looking back I remember struggling trying to find why I put myself through balancing academics as a UCLA student and a member of SPACE, and it’s because when I go to site I see the faces of students who I find a sense of community with. I find a connection with the students I probably couldn’t find anywhere else. I wouldn’t be who I am today without SPACE in my college career. Now as a peer tutor at Marshall, I know that SPACE is not just a tutoring program, but a program that builds community.

Staff Blog: Emilie Tumale

Full Name: Emilie Tumale
Year at UCLA: 2nd year
Major: Asian American Studies
SPACE Site: Marshall High School
Position in SPACE: 1st year Peer Tutor

I first became involved in SPACE through their Staff Support program during Winter Quarter of my first year, which is technically almost a year ago! I first heard of it when I met my mentor and I asked him why I never saw him during Pilipinos in Engineering (PIE) general meetings—turned out he had site on Wednesdays. 

As I was introduced to SPACE, I wanted to learn more about it. In addition, I wanted to do something more than just pure academics—I wanted to give back to my community. So that was why I applied for Staff Support last year. Going to site at Belmont High School and working with SPACE Staff 2009-10 was what got me fully invested in SPACE. I fell in love with the work I was doing both inside and outside of site.  In addition tutoring students, I also participated in the Tracking and Marketing workgroup as a part of SPACE Staff Support (which is now called SPACE Internship). 

Even after my experience with being a part of Staff Support, I continued to attend staff meetings.  Now I am an official part of SPACE Staff, and I love what I do here.  I thank SPACE for not only putting me out of my comfort zone at times, but for also giving me the opportunity to learn so much and have fun at the same time. When I mention being put out of my comfort zone, I refer to a lot of real-life experiences I endure as a part of staff.   

SPACE has helped me work on my communication and leadership skills, both of which are important to any career.  

I’m glad I’ve become more aware of political issues pertaining to my community thanks to SPACE and Samahang Pilipino in general; I will definitely take what I have learned to heart.

This is the SOUL of LA.

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Photographs from SPACE Winter Field Trip 2011! Pictures taken around LA and USC!

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