May 15, 2012LearnServe Fellows Graduation Reflectionsby Xiomara Rojas-Asqui, LearnServe Alumni Ambassador…
Good Evening, My name is Xiomara Rojas and I attend School Without Walls. I was a LearnServe Fellow — sitting in your place just one year ago — and have had the pleasure of serving
October 31, 2011
By Henry Altman
I am by no means a good painter, yet this past weekend on the first LearnServe service day I found that that does not mean that I can’t help people by painting.
I arrived at the meeting place for the trip a…
October 11, 2011
By Grace Reichardt, a junior at Richard Montgomery High School
Hello all!
Two Saturday mornings ago, I was really looking forward to the weekend LSI retreat. But despite that, I just couldn’t help but think about the piles of homework that were awaiting me upon…
October 10, 2011
By Chloe Loving, a sophomore at Annandale High School
The LearnServe retreat was one of the most formative couple of days I think I have ever experienced. When we arrived at Chevy Chase High early that Saturday morning, we were mere “acquaintances”. We were not…
October 8, 2011
By Omnia Saed, a sophomore at Annandale High School
It was cold, everyone was tired, and small drops of rain were coming down as I boarded the bus that would take the LSI group to West Virginia- not necessarily the best start to a weekend…
October 4, 2011
By Jessica Sun
Never before have I ever: dead-man dropped off a zip-line, used a compost and dirt outhouse, actually slept in a 20°F sleeping bag in 20°F weather or completed a life-sized ball and holes maze with a team. To say the LSI weekend…
September 26, 2011
By Marwa Eltahir
On September 22nd, excited high school students from all around the metropolitan area entered the library of School Without Walls eager to attend their first meeting as LearnServe International Fellows. The energy about the room was a sort of animated frenzy. Students…
September 12, 2011
“Anna Shchelokova probably couldn’t imagine, growing up in Russia, that she would one day be an American high school student repairing bicycles on a summer trip to Zambia and preparing to use a $1,000 award to start her own teen fitness business venture. But that’s…
August 12, 2011
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…
April 22, 2011
On Thursday, April 14 LearnServe Fellow KP Missana and his Central High School team celebrated Earth Day early, cleaning the Cabin Branch Creek that runs through Central’s campus. ”There’s so much pollution,” KP shared with the Gazette, “erosion, lots of pollution, chairs, oil, tires —…
