PAIR - Pauma American Indian Reservation
The Pauma Band of Luiseño (Mission) Indians is located in the northeastern corner of San Diego County, in the foothills of Mount Palomar about 65 miles from downtown San Diego. The reservation itself feeds into the Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District, a rural district in North San Diego County, which is heavily agricultural in nature. The PAIR project opened in the Spring 2002 and is available to the approximately 295 students enrolled at Pauma in grades K – 8, with a high Hispanic and American Indian composition of 60.7% and 32.5%, respectively (California Department of Education, 2000). The project has initiated with youth at the elementary level to supplement existing after school homework-based programs with computer-mediated activities adapted from La Clase Mágica’s curriculum. We expect the computer equipment to be significantly increased and/or upgraded through the Tribal Digital Village project funded by a Hewlett-Packard Digital Village grant. Equipment to support remote tutoring and mentoring using web-cams and electronic whiteboards will also be installed. CASA will provide the educational content for the infrastructure provided by the Digital Village grant.

Site Activities & Population Served
Due to the distance between the site and UCSD, the number of undergraduate students that can travel the long distance to assist in the activities is limited while we form partnerships between the local colleges/ or universities. Despite the shortage in undergraduate students, this site has been operating with the assistance of 2 CASA staff, and community volunteers.