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For 10 days Sinclair students will be going to Guatemala for a service-learning trip to build clean cookstoves and to supplement their classroom learning.<\/p>\n

The students will learn the culture, while helping the communities in which they will be staying.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are partnering with Transformational Journey, which is an organization that does service,\u201d said Heidi McGrew, chair of the communication department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This year\u2019s trip includes faculty and primarily communication students, who have completed certain requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWere trying to take students who have taken interpersonal communication and intercultural communication,\u201d McGrew said.<\/p>\n

She said that the goal is to give students a hands on learning experience that relates to what they are learning in the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we went with Kathy Rowell, and she was doing a global poverty class. She needed more faculty to support the students… the idea of getting it to be a yearly thing, kind of happened last year,\u201d McGrew said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said that students have to pay for the trip to Guatemala.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do have to pay for the trip and we are trying to do some fundraising to offset that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

McGrew said that there are many fundraisers happening to help raise\u00a0the necessary funds for students to be able to attend the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing another fundraiser at Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers this Sunday. PTK [Phi Theta Kappa] is also doing some things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

McGrew said that they sell bracelets from Guatemala to help raise funds for the students.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery little bit helps,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Casey Sherman, a nursing major who is going on the trip to Guatemala is looking forward to learn something new.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] really excited\u2026 We are going to be building fuel efficient stoves,\u201d she said. \u201cIt helps you apply what you are actually learning and apply it to real world experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sherman said that many members of the community have issues with their current method of cooking, and it is a hazard to them.<\/p>\n

There is a GoFundme page set up by Sherman to try and raise funds for the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny little bit helps, but its something to go on the trip,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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