The annual 3-day, 2-night program at the UC Santa Cruz campus brings up Asian & Pacific Islander high school students to help motivate them in their journey towards graduation and higher education.

MC is a non-yield program, meaning none of the participants have been accepted as students to the University of California, Santa Cruz. With this, MC focuses on bringing participants who come from underprivileged, under-resourced, and under-represented communities so we can show them that, despite the obstacles, higher education is a possibility for them. We do this by hosting a series of workshops surrounding their identity, culture, education, and self-expression in order to find their own self-agency to succeed in the education system.

The communities MC targets are Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander youth, because these communities are often overshadowed by the dominant East Asian narrative under the "AA/PI" umbrella. We hope that MC participants leave the space feeling empowered and ready to firmly grasp the education that they deserve.