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Daily Schedule:
8:30 am: AEP volunteers gather at Sproul Tournaround and board vans to New Wilmington Arms
9:00 am: Volunteers collect students from the New Wilmington Arms community and travel with the students to Bursch Elementary
10:15 am: Students and volunteers enjoy a breakfast snack and discussion about the previous week's activities, followed by a "Word of the Week" exercise
11:00 am: Students participate in math or English comprehension activities in small groups led by AEP volunteers
12:00 pm: Program participants enjoy lunch provided by AEP
1:00 pm: AEP volunteers or guests entertain students with a cultural presentation
2:00 pm: Volunteers take students home and return to UCLA
"More people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar