7/1/2023 0 Comments Sjw struggle sessionOur group will host three 3-part workshops to discuss Privilege and Civil Discourse. When deciding our project, we wanted to address the pressing issues of social injustice. Ensuring these groups spend quality time together will be the greatest accomplishment of our project and will provide hope for everlasting relationships and a restoration of Boston College values. In order for the group to form personal and communal relationships, we created a program to match like-minded freshmen who will spend time together doing activities they enjoy-whether getting coffee or exploring Boston. By focusing on freshmen, the group most negatively affected by the new state of college, we can reinvigorate the values of Boston College, like attentiveness, intelligence, and responsibility. The goal of our project is to foster a sense of community within the freshman class while simultaneously adhering to the pandemic guidelines at the college, state, and federal levels. We were able to mobilize volunteers from across various University programs to deliver on the Boston College ethos of being “men and women for others.” Creating this relationship and executing this project for the Campus School allowed us to establish the framework, logistics, and proof of concept for future events. We were able to host four different groups in 30-minute waves throughout the event, and in bringing instructors, students, and volunteers together, the joy of community really shone through. Our group collaborated with physical therapists and community representatives to brainstorm inclusive activities for students from across many age groups. Operating within the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, the Campus School strives to “realize the potential of every student.” Given our collective passion for impacting and connecting with youth, we decided to unite artistic creativity, physical activity, and community connection into one event-the Campus School Field Day. We worked with the Campus School to orchestrate an engaging event for their students. Even though the four workshops that we hosted with the Perkins students were small, their curriculum now includes Cubelets, and the students have gained confidence that will inevitably lead to a larger impact on their community. ![]() We learned a lot from the Jenks Leadership Program, especially that impact can come in many different shapes and sizes. Over the course of the four workshops, we each grew individually and as a group in many ways, especially in broadening our cultural horizons by working with the Perkins students, who had different levels of visual impairment. We fulfilled the needs of the Perkins School by implementing block-based coding into their curriculum, giving the students a fun and unique way to learn, and, most importantly, giving them a space to form new friendships. They were presented to students who studied computer science. ![]() ![]() For our project, we worked with the Perkins School for the Blind to plan and execute four workshops using modular robotic blocks called Cubelets that teach important problem-solving skills.
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