{"id":143845,"date":"2024-11-05T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//?p=143845"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:44:25","slug":"trio-at-ucf-empowering-first-gen-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//trio-at-ucf-empowering-first-gen-knights/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//","title":{"rendered":"TRiO at UCF: Empowering First-gen Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Giuliano Lobos /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201919, college once felt like an impossible dream. Growing up in an undocumented family of three, survival came first./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201cThere was a lot of uncertainty,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201d says the Argentinian immigrant, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201c[which made it] kind of hard to focus on school./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n

But Lobos was determined to change his path./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n

He became the first male in his family to graduate from high school /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u2014 and the first ever to attend college /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u2014 earning a full-ride scholarship to UCF in 2015./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201cI had just got into UCF [and] had no idea what to do,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201d Lobos says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201cI met with one of the [admissions] counselors … [and] she led me to [PRIME STEM]./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n

First-Generation Student Awareness Week is Nov. 4-8, celebrating the success and achievements of first-generation college students./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n

Housed on UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/u2019s main campus, PRIME STEM Project/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//Student Support Services stands for Purpose + Reach = Individuals Measured for Excellence (PRIME). It supports first-generation in college students who demonstrate financial need and/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845//or have a documented disability while pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees. Program participants benefit from resources such as priority registration, one-on-one tutoring, peer mentoring, help with financial aid and scholarship applications, research opportunities and more./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/143845/n