🪐️ Albert Sanchez Jr. · From Earth to Orbit · Orbital Systems Architect 🚀
🪶 Teacher Tribal Visionary, Founder of 1ARC ✨

Albert Sanchez Jr. · Founder, Teacher, Tribal Innovator

“From barrio roots to tribal resonance — a journey of purpose, service, and spirit.”

📍 Early Life & Education

I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in La Puente, California, in a barrio called Little Basset. This area, even to this day, is the most gang-infested suburb in Los Angeles County. In spite of my environment, my parents were able to provide positive surroundings, which gave me the drive to start my first business at the age of eight. Three paper routes, Cub and Boy Scouts, Piano at the San Gabriel Valley Conservatory of Music, and Little League kept me going during those younger years up until High School.

During High School at West Covina, I developed an understanding of electronics while assisting my teachers and serving as head technician at California Electronic Service. I spent some time pumping gas at my friend’s Texaco station. I acquired several photography awards as a freelance press photographer for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, publishing (7) front-page photos.

At seventeen years of age, I enrolled in the Electrical/Electronic Engineering (EEE) Program at California Polytechnic University in Pomona. During that time, I had the opportunity to play baseball under the direction of a great coach, Anthony Scalinos, who coached the l984 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team. The University of Tulsa offered me a full sports scholarship in baseball, which I turned down in order to continue playing for coach Scalinos and attend my hometown University, Cal Poly.

Soon I became more interested in my business classes and I let my baseball future go. The following year I was afforded an opportunity to work for Hughes Aircraft Company, Ground Systems Group, in Orange County, California. I worked for the aerospace giant for nearly twenty years.

My last position as a Government Property Administrator allowed me to learn about the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), which covered procurement and property requirements for over one hundred multi-million dollar programs and projects. All of that responsibility brought on a commensurate annual salary, nice homes, and fancy cars, but also brought on extraordinary stress and a sick feeling due to being caught up in a material world rather than a spiritual one.

- Early Life & Education - Aerospace Career - Tribal Reconnection - Adobe Innovation - Youth Empowerment - Later Legacy

🌀 Spiritual Journey & Tribal Reconnection

With the restructuring of Hughes by General Motors, I requested a layoff and began my own quest seeking guidance and strength from the Creator toward a new direction and lifestyle change. I followed my intuition. The Creator led me to an Indian reservation; the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Tucson, Arizona.

I lived with my people on the reservation in an Airstream travel trailer for nearly three years and was eventually adopted by an original O’odham family member. My great-grandmother on my mother’s side was a Cabazon and Cahuilla Indian. There were questions regarding the heritage of my birth mother. It wasn’t until sometime later that my birth Mom told me that I was correct—I am part Pascua Yaqui. She had discovered that, according to old family records, her Great Grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Rogue, was a Pascua Yaqui Indian.

🏠 Adobe Innovation & Tribal Housing

While living on the Rez in Tucson, I conducted additional research in the field of low-cost home building, using a special adobe formula. My knowledge of adobe and its characteristics were received from a Yaqui elder, Mr. Fernando Orozco, who was instrumental in assisting Habitat for Humanity in the Tucson and South Tucson areas. Before Mr. Orozco passed on, I promised to pass his techniques and accomplishments on to the world.

💡 ALECTRONICS & Youth Empowerment

In 1996, while still on the Rez in Tucson, I founded another Division of ALECTRONICS a non-profit Scientific Research Foundation. ALECTRONICS is an acronym for: A Learning Environment Created To Revitalize Our Natural Intuitive Creator-like Subconscious simultaneous knowingness.

As CEO and Founder of ALECTRONICS, I donated my services to the First Annual Tohono O’odham Youth Conference in San Simon, AZ helping students in grades 3 to 8 read and learn mathematics and science. I was also involved in contracting the C-SPAN School bus to visit two schools in South Tucson.

🌿 Later Work & Legacy

In 1997, I left Arizona and moved back to Southern California. My journey continued as I assisted some 2nd grade students at Alvin Dunn Elementary School in San Marcos, California. Talking with the students about technology and showing them my inventions seemed to stimulate a lot of interest and participation. I love working with the inner creativeness of people, especially kids.

I followed my intuition. Just before leaving Hughes Aircraft, I entered a logo design contest for a satellite program and won. That moment affirmed the creative pathway and symbolic guidance that helped shape the founding of 1ARC. From that point forward, I began my own quest, seeking guidance and strength from the Creator.

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