Creator: Andrés Gorbea This is a presentation done by Andrés about his service with Mujeres Unidas Avanzando….
Mujeres Unidas Avanzando
College: College of Social Sciences & Humanities
The Need for Access
Creator: Savita Maharaj This reflection represents the service our class did, tutoring in 826 Boston’s John D. O’Bryant Writers’ Room. It highlights the experiece of Service-Learning and its importance, in addition to connecting the service itself to our course discussions about Black Boston in literature….
Rose, Bud, Thorn of S-L
Creator: Mackenzie Breen This semester in our First Year Writing Service-Learning class, students submitted weekly reflections of their Rose, Bud and Thorns of the week prior. For this activity, the rose of service is meant to be the best part of service, the bud is something to look forward to next week and the thorn…
John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science: My Service-Learning Experience
Creator: Amanda Mangano This blog post explains one of the experiences I had working with the students at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in the Northeastern Writer’s Room. This was the first time I realized the impact of my service on the students at O’bryant, which is why it is my…
Growth from Service-Learning
Creators: Bryce Parazin, Dean Frame, Elaina Comia, Gabriel Lind, Gabriel Vordick, James McManus, Marguerite Yee, MinSoo Kang This artifact is a video of the students from the First-Year Writing Honors class taught by Carolyn Sirois. The class participated in a discussion about how the semester went with Service-Learning and how they progressed from start to…
Music Play
Creators: Taylor Whittaker, Haley Fogelson, Chloe Kwan, Georgia Xenakis After volunteering with Peace Through Play for the semester, this group of students worked with the organization here on campus to create a curriculum to introduce music play into the schools that Peace Through Play works with! They focus on why music play is so important…
Chinese Immersion Program Service-Learning
Creator: Charlotte Alexin The Martin Luther King Jr. school located in Cambridge has a unique program – a Chinese immersion school. Elementary school students enrolled in this program receive Chinese instruction in classes like science, social studies, maths, and Chinese, for 3-4 hours per day. Students of the two advanced Chinese classes at Northeastern University,…
Advocacy Poster on Democratic Education of Latin American Immigrant Population
Creators: Sophie Esteves Varvella Vicente, Valeria Aguiar Ortega We created this poster in order to advocate for education about democracy and Human Rights among a marginalized population, Latin Americans in the United States. We hope to get people to understand the importance of democracy everywhere and actively join in promoting more democratic states and practices….
How Chinese students help empty nesters in China
Creator: Xiaoqi Yuan Empty nesters became a serious phenomenon in China. Since their children leave home because of work, study, marriage, and other reasons, alone “empty nest” middle-aged and elderly produce psychological disorders, known as the family “empty nest” syndrome. Despite appeals from society and the government to care for the elderly, most young people…
Equity in City Services
Creators: Emily Keith, Omar Sindi, Maxcy Grosso This project was aimed towards understanding the reasons for the distribution service requests made through the Boston’s 311 app, and what could be done to promote greater equity in the usage and deployment of city services….