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Yardena Gerwin ’23 presents her MiddCORE Innovation Challenge idea of AccommodatED—a platform to help students with disabilities find resources they need in college.
Internship selection and placement conversation for the Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster 2020 summer internship program! It’s not just based on essays and interviews, though—student applicants for the program joined POSSE scholars to help serve and prepare the weekly free Friday Community Dinner held at the Congregational Church in Middlebury as part of the placement process. P&P summer interns will work in seven area organizations this summer, and in five national placements.
Atsuko Kuronuma (Japan Summer Service-Learning Program founding community coordinator) offered her perspective to J-term Japanese language students at a JSSL 2020 info session.
Student leaders met to debrief one another on their recent programs, including the prior Friday’s event, where Anna Wood ’22 distributed beet samples during a Nutrition Outreach and Mentoring (NOM) taste test at Mary Hogan Elementary School. NOM generates excitement for healthy local foods among youth.
Community Friends mentor Emma McMahan ’23 picked out markers with her seven-year-old mentee. The supply closet at the CCE is full of activity ideas for the 130 mentoring pairs who meet weekly!
Hieu Nguyen ’23 and CCE’s Kristen Mullins share ideas and plans at the Language in Motion Youth Citizenship Summit preparatory session. This spring they’ll hold the second annual summit, in partnership with the Addison Central School District. #MiddExperience
Student responses to a Spencer Prize 2020 Davis Library display.
Over 30 student leaders in Service Cluster Board organizations learned civic skills at a training facilitated mostly by their peers, who had prepared their sessions in the CCE’s Civic Leadership Certificate winter term workshop. Here, Viv Merrill ’22.5 and Sophia Johnson ’22 of WildMidd take participants through conversations about different leadership styles.
Middlebury’s Refugee Outreach Club (ROC), founded by Natalie Meyer ’21, accepted 15 students to travel to Ghana to work with global health initiatives for three weeks over J-term. (Student names—not in order of photo: Natalie Meyer ’21.5, Lydia Wiener ’20, Melanie De Jesus ’22, Erica Dean ’20, Hawa Adam ’22, Sophie Cochran ’20, Clara Loftis ’21, Natalie Passarelli ’20, Lexie Massa ’21, Minori Kawano ’21, Stefan Asamoah ’20, Georgina Duenas ’20, Maria Kaouris ’21, Catherine Blizzard ’20, Molly Ockene ’21, Taylor Lovely 21.5, and Anna Rowland)
Winter term EMT course wraps up with EMT-B certification testing.
Zeke Hodkin ’21 and Grace Maley ’21 of MiddVote, a nonpartisan voter engagement student org, registered students to vote in Crossroads Café. MiddVote will host events throughout spring semester to support students in registering to vote and requesting absentee ballots.