{"id":11600,"date":"2015-04-15T23:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=11600"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:55:30","slug":"service-learning-and-honor-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/04\/15\/service-learning-and-honor-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Service learning and Honor Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinclair will be hosting the Annual Learning and Honors Symposium, directed by David Bodary and Derek Petrey on April 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<br \/>\nDr. David Bodary, a communication professor at Sinclair, is one of the events directors of the Learning and Honors Symposium.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cThe Honors\/Service Learning Symposium is a chance for students to share their honors and service learning projects from the past term,\u201d Bodary said. \u201cMost share their projects via a posterboard presentation. Prizes are given for the best presentations and door prizes are given out in a raffle style to those in attendance.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Learning and Honors Symposium began in 2009 with the goal to bring together two Sinclair programs that showcased students\u2019 achievements. Since its creation, the attendance has doubled from an average of 50 guests to 100, including university representatives, Sinclair students and faculty, and many nonprofit agents in the community.<br \/>\n\u201cArea non-profit partners such as Five Rivers Metroparks, United Way, Hannah\u2019s Treasure Chest and others will be on hand to share service opportunities,\u201d Bodary said. \u201cIn addition, representatives from many area four-year colleges and universities will be on hand to discuss transfer options for students.\u201d<br \/>\nBodary said this is a great opportunity for students.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a great chance for students to learn more about honors and service learning options and to dive deeper into their learning of course-related materials,\u201d Bodary said.<br \/>\nAt noon there will be a speech contest organized by the Communication department.<br \/>\nService learning is an educational method that includes formal instruction with the chance to help the community in order to provide a helpful learning experience. Service learning aims to bridge the gap between traditional classroom learning and real life application.<br \/>\n\u201cThe goal is really to share, learn and mingle with other students, community partners and transfer institution representatives,\u201d Bodary said.<br \/>\nStudents are given the chance to present the works they have accomplished throughout the year to their fellow students and to the community representatives.<br \/>\n\u201cAll are welcome to attend,\u201d Bodary said. \u201cStudents taking courses for honors or completing service learning projects are welcome to share their presentations, but need to contact David Bodary or Derek Petrey to reserve a spot for the morning or afternoon session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Duty<br \/>\n<em>Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinclair will be hosting the Annual Learning and Honors Symposium, directed by David Bodary and Derek Petrey on April 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Dr. David Bodary, a communication professor at Sinclair, is one of the events directors of the Learning and Honors Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2056],"class_list":["post-11600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-james-duty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-316","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11602,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions\/11602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}