On a brisk, early Saturday morning, Migrant Education Program students sit in front of laptops and notebooks. Poised with pens in hand and fingers above keys, the students find themselves surrounded by brightly colored paper, each page describing a different component of a successful personal essay.

Parents in Albion, Orleans County and Lockport, Niagara County could see and talk to each other using video conferencing technology about a very important topic last weekend.

Damaris Hernandez is an 18 year old Out of School Youth student originally from Nacagdoches County, Texas. Damaris, her two sisters, and her father lived in Texas for much of her life and traveled back and forth from Mexico.