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 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…
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…
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…
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.”…
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.…
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…
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…