Creator: Alexis Trattler My service-learning partner for the semester was the BCYF Family Gym. The Family Gym is a place for children and their parents to come and play in a safe indoor space with Northeastern students. This is a reflection on my service at the Family Gym. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I completed my service learning at…
Creator: Emily Hurtig This is a reflection post on some observations I made while working at United South End Settlements and how the kids there impacted my life. On my first day volunteering at the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) classroom at United South End Settlements, I walked into the room and, to…
The 826 pieces I was missing Creator: Aanchal Dharmani The community partner organization that I worked with was 826 Boston, a non-profit youth writing organization that empowers traditionally underprivileged students. They essentially help students aged 6-18 to find their voices and enhance communication skills that are integral to succeed in life and academics. My artifact…
Yuyang Wei I decided to write an individual blog to talk about what I learned from the service work. My development through volunteer works I haven’t thought about that I would volunteer in an organization tutoring children age from 6-12, to be honest, at first I was afraid of talking to or teaching children…
Creators: Gabriela Silverio, Luis Garate Marquez, Palak Tyagi, Chia-Hsin Nien This infographic represents our group’s service at the Boys and Girls Club Boston. It is a description of our learning through this community service group. The Boys and Girls Club is a non-profit organization that runs an after school program. This organization has students from…
My Experience at Square Roots Community Center Creator: Erin Choi This is a blog post that recounts my overall experiences during my service at Square Roots Community Center, including any observations I made about the community and its dynamic. The goals of Castle Square Tenants Organization were those that really spoke to me when I…
Creator: Erin Drury This short reflection explores the concepts of community and service through the experience I had serving at Scholar Athletes. It looks deeper into what it means to serve, and describes how I made my time with my Service-Learning partner more meaningful. When I first began my service-learning experience via Dr. Keeling’s First…
Creator: Parker Audette This is a brief glimpse into my time with the Clubhouse (my service partner) where I share the objectives of the location and provide further analytical comparisons between our course readings and class assignments. Weeks of volunteering at the Clubhouse have manifested apparent objectives, one of which is to create an environment…
BTU (826 Boston) Creator: Jee Suh This blogpost involves service done at BTU with 826 Boston as a part of a first-year writing course. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Every time I go to the BTU, I feel like I have a different feeling about it just because of how different it is every single time I’ve been there….
Information Visualization – Boston Latin Academy reflection Creators: Sara Di Bartolomeo, Girik Malik, Prasanth Murali, Laura South, and Uzma Haque Syeda Five PhD students in the Information Visualization course share their personal Reflection Essay about their experience at Boston Latin Academy. They teach Tableau Lessons focused on data visualization to high school students….