On the road to success.

Sam Pacheco, Professor of Chicano Studies, CSUMB and a Talent Search Coordinator for the University, was the keynote speaker at Saturday's conference for migrant middle schoolers at CSUMB. About 100 migrant youth learned about what it takes to avoid drugs, gangs, and getting pregnant at a young age.

What was unique about this conference was the organizing committee, which was made-up of local high school migrant students.
Last summer, these high school students participated in a one-week leadership and civics educational field trip to Washington, D.C., and part of the commitment the students made before going on the trip was to serve on the planning committee for this middle school conference. The high school students developed their leadership skills as they selected the workshops’ topics and conducted the planning of the event. At the conference, the high school students served as facilitators, ran the conference and co-presented in the workshops.