is an exceptional program just because all the experiences the students get to have as are growing and transitioning and so the other bomb program rise and exceptional experience because with specifically for our program we give them a college experience so when they come here in the summer for about four weeks they'll be living in the dorms living like a college student eating on campus taking classes and they'll get residential evening activities as well so they get a well rounded idea of what college can be like and how fun it can be but the same time they have to still have a balance  is a program where you can get the hands on college experience and for minorities like the students that we have it's hard for them to get that experience because  they just they're not exposed to that as opposed to those who are more fortunate and so what we're expecting for our students to gain from our program is for the new guy has our college experience and it's supposed to encourage them to go to college despite their circumstances of not being able to afford  the upper bound program hires instructors for the summer we usually have the core courses which are english and literature courses and then we have math and science and then we also have a financial literacy piece that we include into our service so for math and science we use ice cube which is a nationally recognized program to work  students to explore so hands and maff in hands on learning experiences for english literature component we usually hire on an english teacher and then literature we will have the group read a book together the scuffs and do activities together as a  group usually we don't check meals for the students we just let them pick whatever they want but this year be found a program that will reimburse us for eating healthy which is great what the program does is it promotes the students to choose healthy choices for food such as greens fruits one hundred percent juice milk things like that and what a lot of students realize that it's so much easier than they thought you know you just got a plate of food and you just have to remember get your genes are here for you pay much good to go so that's something that you know and it's really i really i'm really glad that we brought this program  with leadership time we try to play games that are more team building and give the students a chance to be leaders and try to work together to accomplish that goal so sometimes they have to cross the grass a certain amount of of pages each day and then they read and then the next day they come into class they do an activity and they discuss the book together as a group and the activity it to others a group so this offers th to speak up work out their presentation skills being able to add their own voice and reflect on what they've read the night before  week as a week that the students and after this what we want to teach the students is that even though there's our campus you can also commute from home so commuters make is all about just experiencing what it's like to stay home and still go to college and what we do with the students is we we try to promote community service and we try to get them out to college campus visits i think there are four or five who are really thinking about considering applying when it gets to their senior year so a lot of things were sold on  how to be a leader for the students to be a role model and just letting the students know all about how it's going to be like in college so just princeton's for what their future may be like it's something that really really interesting and engaging that's pretty much like i love engaging of the students and they're all wonderful stories and that's the part as part of this program when i reflect and think about what's important to myself my purpose here living on this earth i think about you know what i could possibly do with students and one story i like to mention is that the story of the boy and the starfish is on the beach so this is a story about a little boy who's walking along the beach and he sees all these starfish is being washed up to the beach and so he picks them up and starts throwing them back into the water as or someone comes along and asses her why are you even bother doing this because they were just washed back up on the beach and so the little boy answers him or as you know the reason why i do this is because if no one else does they won't get a chance and he throws the starfish back in iraq and really relate this story to students because  syrians can be they may feel like they're not being kurdish they feel like giving up but if you continue to incursion to help them as much as you can to your own abilities you don't know what kind of