Week 4: 4-H Cultivating Community
This week presented some new challenges as my boss, Rachel, was away. She left me well-prepared to lead the group, but the students and I felt her absence. It made me appreciate everything she ...
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Planting the Seeds of Youth Development
Week 8: Final Week and Presentation
Welcome back everyone! Today will be the final time I’m updating this blog for the summer. It feels slightly bittersweet thinking about everything I have done over the summer. It’s been quite a journey ...
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GBL Week 6: DIY Plant Collars Lesson
This week, I turned my attention to tackling a common garden challenge: cutworms. If you’ve noticed your plants wilting, leaves developing holes, or even some plants mysteriously disappearing, you might be dealing with these ...
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Week 8
Welcome back! For week 8, I’ve been doing a lot of data analysis with descriptives and correlations! This has been a work in progress for a couple of weeks, but it has been nice ...
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WEEK 3: 4-H Cultivating Community
We started out our week at the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. While we were picking up litter, some of the students spoke about their weekend at the carnival and how they couldn’t even ...
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Week 7: Preparing for the CHE NYC Summer Presentation
Welcome back! This week, I focused on working on my summer presentation and wrapping up any last projects I started working on this summer. I finished creating the revised GLTTP evaluation on Qualtrics. Hopefully, ...
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GBL Week 5 Reflection:
This week I had the privilege of meeting with the Master Gardener Volunteer Program Support Lead, who also plays a key role in the Seed to Supper program. Our discussions were enlightening and packed ...
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WEEK 2: 4-H Cultivating Community
This week was our first time at the MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence. It’s such a wonderful place with an incredible staff. What started as a run-down house was turned into a beautiful, warm, ...
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Week 1: 4-H Cultivating Community
My first week of the Cultivating Community program was very exciting. This year, the group is 12 teens ages 14-18. Four of them had participated in the program last year and all the others ...
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GBL Week 4: “Choose Your Tuesday” Activity Reflection
Reflecting on another fulfilling week at the Ithaca Community Gardens. Last week’s Choose Your Tuesday activity was a fantastic opportunity not only to share knowledge but also to connect with new faces within our ...
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Week 6: Week Updates
I’m back! This week wasn’t too eventful. I planned to conduct an interview with four prior participants of the curriculum to get their input and success stories on how the curriculum impacted their lives. ...
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Week 5: Wrapping things Up
Hey guys, I’m back! This week I finished working through my evaluation and curriculum updates. Thankfully, with EFNEP’s more developed evaluation, I was able to use it as a template to work on the ...
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