LearnServe Alum Yoni Kalin, founder of Fishing 4 Success and Color My World, is recognized for raising more than $2,000 in scholarship funds for college-bound teens from the Gulf Coast.
Read more in this week’s “Washington Jewish Week.”
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Youth Service Symposium featured on WUSA9
Check out the WUSA9.com profile of the Big Idea Youth Service Symposium, hosted by LearnServe International and the Ron Brown Scholar Program.
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Faces of Leadership
LearnServe International joined the Ron Brown Scholar Program in welcoming 90 student leaders from more than 40 area high schools last Friday to the 2011 Faces of Leadership Conference, held at Georgetown University.
Workshop leaders included LearnServe alumni Mary Sun and Sameen Yusuf, founders of NextGen Policy; Jessica Yang, founder of Kids Are Scientists Too; Melanie Barlow, founder of MicroMiracles; and Chandra Christmas-Rouse and Chinyere Ukaegbu, participants in Operation Understanding DC.
Participating high school students developed actions plans around the issues they plan to address in their schools and communities this coming year.
Creativity, Action, and Service
LearnServe Alum Jake Sorrells (Rockville), LearnServe Advisor and IB Coordinator Deborah Wilchek (Rockville), and Scott Rechler offered a new take on the International Baccalaureate’s “CAS” requirement at the Mid-Atlantic IB Conference in Annapolis, MD on August 11.
The IB program encourages students to explore life beyond scholarship through activities that blend creativity, action, and service — known as CAS projects. During their junior and senior years, IB students should be involved in at least one project involving teamwork that integrates two or more of these areas.
Jake shared how his venture, Young Changemakers, challenges teams of high school students to design their own social action campaigns — bringing the core elements of LearnServe’s Fellows Program further into the school. Deborah highlighted how Rockville High School’s participation in Young Changemakers and the LearnServe Fellows Program reinforces the values of the IB Program’s CAS requirement, offering students team leadership experience and fostering a more vibrant, community-oriented school culture. For more information, contact info@learn-serve.org.