Tag: Seattle

  • Summer GOOD Grant & Graduation!

    Hello AGE UP participants, coaches, friends, family & followers! We are excited to announce that we are entering another voting competition with GOOD Maker – but this time there is $5,000 at stake! This means we need you more than every to help us fund the next cycle of AGE UP. Please go to http://maker.good.is/projects/AGEUP2012…

  • Laughin’ it Up at Age-UP.

    Last Tuesday, we started off the session with eating SUSHI! Thanks to the cooking team who made massive amounts of ’em: ones with spam & others with tofu. I’ve never seen so much sushi in my life, it was very filling. As we all got sushi, we made a ‘squircle’ with the tables and came…

  • Fried Rice and Self Awareness

    Hello world! It’s Sophie again. So on Friday we started our session with a wonderful fried rice with soy beans, eggs and other tasty stuff. It was delicious! Thank you, cooking team. Great job as always. Our guest speaker was unfortunately delayed in traffic so our discussion started later than planned. But! Our wonderful guest finally…

  • Second Years Get Personal

    Hello, hello, readers. It’s Amanda, again. This week, the Top Chef group (with the addition of yours truly), graced us with homemade, whole-wheat pizzas! We’re not talking Hawaiian, pepperoni, or Canadian bacon, either. There were a total of five pizzas topped with ingredients ranging from broccoli, green bell peppers, mushrooms, and olives, to squash and…

  • 2nd Years Tackle Racism

    2nd Years Tackle Racism

    There are millions of problems happening throughout the world but one of them has proven that it is able to make or break our society for good and for bad: racism. It has traveled all throughout the world as a horrific memory from the past to an ungrateful “gift” in our present. If you were…

  • The AGE-UP Family Gets A Little Bigger

    Greetings everyone, I’m Amanda, also an AGE UP second year. This past Friday marked the beginning of our winter sessions for first years (new participants). We kicked off the program with introductions within a HUGE circle (I’m talking a total of 50+ coaches, first years, and second years) to allow everyone to get familiar with…