AGE UP News & Updates

Dear AGE UP Family, We are completely blown away by the support you showed us on GiveBIG. For real, we all happy-cried. The dust has settled and we want to thank you. Together with your help, we raised over $12,000 dollars in less than 24 hours to support young Ultimate players in South Seattle. To the 120 people who…

  Hi AGE UP family, So much has happened in the last six months! This winter, we completed another successful year for our girls program, filled with learning, laughter and delicious food. AGE UP also ran our first-ever cycle of programming for boys – ten weeks of workshops culminating in one incredible retreat. Last but not…

Yo what up lovely readers!!! This is Miko reporting live on the AGE UP blog!!! Yeah, so just a little background this was the first retreat with the AGE UP boys! It was held at Camp Long from March 1st to March 2nd. It was an amazing experience! It was a super nourishing in all…

This is Sam T-H. and Devin C. bringing you the events from last week’s AGE UP session. Friday, 2/28, we had Emilio Garza come to us to give some information about politics and The Washington Bus program. He started us off with a video of a politician forum, but one like no other, called the…

On February 14, 2014 – Valentine’s Day (!) during our AGE UP session we talked and discussed about sexuality and gender. We had guest speakers Sonny, Gabe and Jhanelle come in to our session. We started with the basic introduction of each other using name, pronoun and musical guilty pleasure. The activities we started with…

Hey it’s Yee and Sam! Today we had an awesome session where we talked about capitalism and poverty. We had some yummy Filipino food made by Kendra and Jhanelle. We had sinagang- a sour soup filled with shrimp, cabbage, tomatoes, and bitter melon. We also had bilo-bilo, a sweet dessert with ube, rice balls, coconut…

This is our third blog and Cyril is here to talk about what we did in today’s session. Today we had a session about relationships and dating. In this session we had a special guest, Shannon, from Northwest Network, who helped talk about some healthy and unhealthy relationships. We started off the session with a…

Hi, our names are Rose and Lizzy. This is our first blog post! Today’s session was led by Jhanelle and Gabriella. During the check-in, they introduced public speaking by asking us what our worst public speaking scenario was. Mine (Lizzy’s) was during finals week when I had to present a debate with my partner in…

Hello my name’s Marc and I’m Yu Wen. This is our second blog and we are going to tell you guys about how our AGE UP went today. We started off eating food that the girls AGE UP left and got Top Pot donuts from Sam TH. The boys had a special session taught by…

What’s up everyone! I’m guessing you have heard of AGE UP (which is an acronym for All Girl Everything Ultimate Program), which has been going on for a few years.  Just recently we gave it a little twist and made an AGE UP for guys – my name is Ray Santos and I am part…