LearnServe News/Announcements

Running for a Cause

September 19, 2011 Early on Sunday morning, September 18, more than 100 runners — and a handful of walkers — gathered at Meadowbrook Park in Maryland for the first annual 5K Run for the C&O Canal. The race, organized by LearnServe alum Greg Picard (Fellows ’11) and his…

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Fixing bicycles in Zambia

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…

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MBAs on a Mission

September 7, 2011 LearnServe Director Scott Rechler — also an MBA candidate at the George Washington University School of Business — was featured in the September 7, 2011 Washington Post education supplement on “Students With A Cause.” The article highlights a growing trend towards public and community service…

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Fishing 4 Success: Yoni Kalin featured in Washington Jewish Week

August 26, 2011 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.”…

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Youth Service Symposium featured on WUSA9

August 19, 2011 Check out the WUSA9.com profile of the Big Idea Youth Service Symposium, hosted by LearnServe International and the Ron Brown Scholar Program. For the full story click here.…

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Faces of Leadership

August 15, 2011 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…

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Creativity, Action, and Service

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…

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LearnServe Jamaica, Day 15: Snapshots of our Adventure

July 10, 2011 Heart racing, head thumping, and legs panging. He pointed to me, singling me out from the crowd. I froze with a panicked expression clearly stamped across my face while my sweaty hand tightly clutched the trusty walking stick. “But I’m slow,” I muttered in a…

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LearnServe Jamaica, Day 14: Tourists for a day

July 9, 2011   Hello peoples! Today we went shopping !!!!! Let me tell you, shopping in Jamaica is very different from shopping in America. It was a totally new experience for me, because I had to bargain and I have never bargained for anything before. I messed…

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LearnServe Jamaica, Day 12: Memories

July 7, 2011 Where has time gone? Day thirteen? I remember when we were all just anticipating to meet our pillows on day ten, the Sunday of the hike to the Blue Mountain peak. When we finally arrived back to Penlyne Castle, each one of us did not…

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