{"id":53395,"date":"2016-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/?p=53395"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:04:20","slug":"alexis-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/2016\/01\/alexis-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis: Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, Summer Search became a proud\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/In-run-up-to-Super-Bowl-50-hosts-give-2-5-6106281.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recipient of the Super Bowl 50 Fund\u2019s \u201cGame Changer\u201d Award<\/a>, a $500,000 grant over three years to support our Bay Area students. As the name suggests, this grant is a real\u00a0<em>game changer <\/em>for our Bay Area sites, as it will allow us to serve even more students who are, in turn, changing the game and the status quo for their own lives and their communities.<\/p>\n<h4>One such game changer is Alexis Flores.<\/h4>\n<p>When we first met Alexis, he was as a self-conscious 15 year-old who was buried in his schoolwork and chores, unaware of the opportunities around him and unsure of his own leadership potential.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Summer Search North Bay and working with\u00a0<strong>his mentor Molly<\/strong>, Alexis went on his first\u00a0<strong>summer trip<\/strong>, (which is a\u00a0challenging wilderness experience\u00a0\u2014 one of the cornerstones of our program model). He embarked on a three-week backpacking and rock-climbing adventure with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierranevadajourneys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viajes a Sierra Nevada<\/a>. That trip proved to be a pivotal (dare we say\u00a0<strong><em>game-changing<\/em><\/strong>) event in his life and for his future.|In 2015, Summer Search became a proud\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/In-run-up-to-Super-Bowl-50-hosts-give-2-5-6106281.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recipient of the Super Bowl 50 Fund\u2019s \u201cGame Changer\u201d Award<\/a>, a $500,000 grant over three years to support our Bay Area students. As the name suggests, this grant is a real\u00a0<em>game changer <\/em>for our Bay Area sites, as it will allow us to serve even more students who are, in turn, changing the game and the status quo for their own lives and their communities.<\/p>\n<h4>One such game changer is Alexis Flores.<\/h4>\n<p>When we first met Alexis, he was as a self-conscious 15 year-old who was buried in his schoolwork and chores, unaware of the opportunities around him and unsure of his own leadership potential.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Summer Search North Bay and working with\u00a0<strong>his mentor Molly<\/strong>, Alexis went on his first\u00a0<strong>summer trip<\/strong>, (which is a\u00a0challenging wilderness experience\u00a0\u2014 one of the cornerstones of our program model). He embarked on a three-week backpacking and rock-climbing adventure with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierranevadajourneys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viajes a Sierra Nevada<\/a>. That trip proved to be a pivotal (dare we say\u00a0<strong><em>game-changing<\/em><\/strong>) event in his life and for his future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, Summer Search became a proud\u00a0recipient of the Super Bowl 50 Fund\u2019s \u201cGame Changer\u201d Award, a $500,000 grant over three years to support our Bay&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23,24,25,29],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-53395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summersearchermade","category-mentoring","category-experiential","category-partners","category-summersearchers","tag-bay-area"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/summersearch-blog-alexis_game_changer-02-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/summersearch-blog-alexis_game_changer-02-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brendan Hill","author_link":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/author\/brendanhill\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summersearch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}