TAMIU Names Spring 2018 Service-Learning Expo Winners
Over 150 Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) undergraduate and graduate students presented 40 individual and team projects at the Spring 2018 Service Learning Expo Tuesday, April 17 in the Student Center Ballroom.
Student projects represented 10 TAMIU service-learning courses. Admission was free and open to the public.
Dr. Marcela Uribe, Service Learning Center’s Learning Resources coordinator, said service-learning is an educational experience in which students participate in a TAMIU credit-bearing course paired with an organized community service component.
“Key to service-learning are guided and structured reflections that support learning by enhancing course content comprehension, integrating academic and service concepts, and developing civic/social justice responsibility,” Dr. Uribe said.
Among project community partners this year were the Boys & Girls Club of Laredo, PILLAR, and Bethany House, she said.
Named winners at the concluding Award Ceremony were the following:
The 1st Place Poster Winners Graduate Students
Group Name: Empowering Migrant Families Teaching and Mentoring Communities.
Class: PSYC 5389 Psychology Internship: Dr. Anna Cieslicka.
Group member 1: Valeria Zhang.
1st Place Poster Winners Graduate Students
Group Name: Assessing Literacy and Cognition in the Dominican Republic.
Class: PSYC 5397: Dr. Angelique Blackburn.
Group member 1: Alexandra Reyes
Group member 2: Alejandra Santos.
2nd Place Poster Winners Graduate Students
Group Name: Girl, Interrupted: Empowering women and children who have been victims of human trafficking in the Dominican Republic.
Class: EDGR 5320: Dr. Tonya Huber.
Group member 1: Lorena Cestou.
3rd Place Poster Winner Graduate Students:
Group Name: Teaching English Literacy Volunteers of Laredo.
Class: PSYC 5389 Psychology Internship: Dr. Anna Cieslicka.
Group member 1: Jill Davidson.
1st Place Winners: Undergraduate Students
Group Name: Educating Human Trafficking Victims in the Dominican Republic: Batey Girls.
Class: EDCI 4199: Dr. Tonya Huber.
Group member 1: Sherline Salazar
Group member 2: Felicitas Cavazos
Group member 3: Rosa Salinas.
2nd Place Winners:
Group Name: Boxing Fitness.
Class: UNIV 4390: Cihtlalli Pérez and Dr. Marcela Uribe.
Group member 1: Edwin Guerra.
3rd Place Poster Winners & Student Favorite Poster:
Group Name: An unBelizeable International Service-Learning Experience.
Class: CSDO 4300: Dr. Melissa García.
Group member 1: Erika Martínez
Group member 2: Jazmin Contreras
Group member 3: Paola Garza
Group member 4: Jenapher Canales
Group member 5: Cecilia González
Group member 6: Jacquelyn González
Group member 7: Samantha Garza
Group member 8: Leslie Maldonado
Group member 9: Alejandra Rodríguez
Group member 10: Fabiola Rodríguez
Group member 11: Rebecca Rodríguez
Group member 12: Esmeralda Salazar.
For more information, please contact Dr. Uribe at 956.326.3133, email marcela.uribe@tamiu.eduor visit offices in the Senator Judith Zaffirini Student Success Center, room 223C.
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