This summer, Isabelle Musmanno served as the SLS Global Student Ambassador for the Nature, Governance, and Sustainability in Costa Rica study abroad program. For her project, she created and ran an Instagram site for the program. Click here for a glimpse of the Costa Rican experience!
Interested in a study abroad experience that embraces the economic, environmental, social, and cultural aspects of creating sustainable communities? SLS partners with ten GT Study Abroad programs - visit our Study Abroad page to check out our study abroad partners.
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In AY 18-29, SLS sponsored its third Global Student Ambassador Program, partnering with ten Study Abroad programs at Georgia Tech. The Global Student Ambassador Program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to meet each other and learn cross cultural perspectives on sustainable communities and share their experiences with other students. As part of sharing those experiences, we are pleased to provide a blog post from Anna Montgomery, SLS Global Student Ambassador with the Leadership for Social Good (Central and Eastern Europe) program. Anna writes about her internship experience with No Bad Kid, a non-profit in Hungary that works to provide resources and training for schools across the country to better equip and encourage children who face behavioral problems.
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History and Sociology Assistant Professor Allen Hyde writes in the Atlanta Studies online journal about an oral history project conducted in 2018 in his Urban Sociology classes (HTS 3012). Students in these classes interviewed residents of Grove Park about changes in their neighborhood and their hopes and concerns for the future of the area. The interviews have been uploaded to the StoryCorps App and are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Urban Sociology is an SLS Affiliated Course and is part of our Linked Courses Signature Program under the Equitable and Sustainable Development theme…
This spring marks the first semester that the Computer Science Capstone Design program is offering an “SLS Section.” This section’s curated partnerships give CS majors an opportunity to engage with local nonprofits, social impact entrepreneurs, and community organizations as their project partners. The students of the SLS section had their own Introduction to SLS session in the beginning of the term and were required to attend SLS’s Service Learning and Community Engagement Orientation. (Should you want to watch/use the video of the SLS SLCE Orientation, please just contact SLS’s Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist, Ruthie Yow.) With these foundations, students in the course are encouraged to see themselves as co-learners and co-producers of their design, drawing on their partners’ expertise just as the partners draw on theirs. They are also urged to view their project as just one part of a broader relationship; for example,…
This winter break, I spent 9 days leading thirteen of my Georgia Tech peers on a medical outreach service trip to San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala through Georgia Tech’s student organization, Volunteers Around the World (VAW). San Pedro is a beautiful community about four hours west of Guatemala City, situated on Lake Atitlan, in the mountains. The objective of our days was to run pop-up medical clinics in rural nearby villages, taking care of patient needs through four main stations: intake, vitals, consultation, and pharmacy. At night, we stayed with host families, who provided home cooked Guatemalan meals. As my team’s selected Team Lead, I had extra responsibilities such as planning trip logistics, organizing clinic days, regulating flow of patients, solving problems as they arose, and mediating group dynamic.
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ISyE major Julianne McCallum reflects on her participation in the Fall 2018 Liam's Legacy Symposium and her attendance at the Just Energy Summit. Our Spring Liam's Legacy Symposium, Local to Global: Perspectives on Community Health, is THIS THURSDAY, March 14th. Registration is required and we only have a few spots left! Liam's Legacy is presented by Serve-Learn-Sustain in partnership with the School of History and Sociology (through a grant from the Gertrude and William C. Wardlaw fund in support of the Conference on Human Rights, Changes, and Challenges).
Most people don’t give much thought to energy on a daily basis: when you get up to make your coffee, you don’t think about the power plant down the road that was just called online to meet the surge in demand caused by…
SLS is excited to announce our first cohort of SLS SDG Faculty Fellows – eight faculty from four colleges and seven schools, who will work with SLS during 2019 to advance their teaching and research related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and help us increase faculty engagement in our regional sustainability network, RCE Greater Atlanta, officially acknowledged by the United Nations University:
| First Name | Last Name | College | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | Best | Computing/Ivan Allen | Interactive Computing/International Affairs |
| Shatakshee… We hope you enjoy this first post in a series of posts about the work of RCE Greater Atlanta, leading up to the 2019 Atlanta Global Studies Symposium: The UN Sustainable Development Goals in Education, Research, and Community Engagement (April 25 - 27, 2019), featuring a parallel session focused on capacity building through RCE Greater Atlanta. Brittany Foutz is an International Conflict Management Ph.D. Candidate at Kennesaw State University. She is writing her dissertation on a transitional justice topic, focusing on the victims that have received reparations from two International Criminal Court Cases. Ms. Foutz’s research interests include international law, education through the SDGs, human rights advancement and the rule of law, and peacekeeping and peacebuilding. She has presented in over thirty conferences, been awarded twenty grants, and has developed fluency in four… Considering an Alternative Service Break? Read about one student's experience traveling to Belize to build a community health center.
Interested in a summer internship experience that offers the opportunity to gain real-world experience in sustainability and community engagement, while supporting solutions for sustainable communities? Apply for the SLS 2019 Summer Internship Program! Applications are now open. Read about the experience of one of our 2018 interns, working with SLS partner Transformation Alliance. I can say without a doubt that my two-and-a-half months working with Odetta for the TransFormation Alliance last summer was (pun intended) transformative. For those of you who do not know me, my name is Michael Bryan II, and I served as TFA's Programs Intern; I am a third-year, International Affairs major from Georgia Tech with a minor in pre-law, and a concentration in urban development—try saying that three times fast. From Stone Mountain (yes, the home of Donald Glover), I have been in the Metro… |
The first week of my summer was one of the most transformative of my life. I never would have guessed that the best week of my summer would be spent on a service trip with a group of Georgia Tech students I had never met before. Belize is home to the second largest barrier reef in the world, the world’s only jaguar preserve, wonderful people, and a host of magical memories. Spending a week doing service in Belize taught me not only about the culture of the Mayan people we lived with, but also a lot of new things about myself.