Valley students from middle school through college attended the 17th annual STEM conference.
The free event is designed as a pipeline for future Valley physicians, nurses, and engineers.
"Foos in Medicine represents that as far as diversity, so want to make sure students here get a taste of what is possible," says Reedley College Dean of Instruction, Juan Bedolla.
The 29-year-olds shared their experience as first-generation Latino college students at UCLA Medical School.
Alexis is a South Central native, and Irvin is the son of Mexican immigrants.
"One of the things that my dad was always doing is he would come out here as a migrant farm worker and he would actually work through the fields of the Central Valley," Garcia said.
Guadalupe Hernandez of Dinuba, resonating with that shared history as her parents labor in those same fields.
"It's something that I think a lot of first-gen students should always carry with them and strive for not just themselves, but their parents as well," she said.
The friends who met in med-school sharing their daily realities as students, hoping to diversify all of higher education.
"We've had students now come up to us and say they're applying to medical school, they're applying to nursing school, they're applying to law school because of us, and that just makes my heart fill like nothing else does," Alemán said.
Together, the "Foos" amass an Instagram following of close to 400,000.
"When we first started, my only objective was to inspire one kid from South Central just because I know that representation matters," Alemán said.
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