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As a student at DU, I had the opportunity

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to lead a civic-minded project in the community of Maywood,

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in which we focused a group of volunteer students

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on revitalizing a house for an elderly homeowner couple.

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I think that students get out of it an opportunity to go

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beyond the classroom

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and to actually see that

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what they're learning in school such as leadership, 

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project management, stuff like that,

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they can actually have an opportunity to apply

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that elsewhere and see

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that all the skills they're learning will lead them

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to something greater down the road.

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Our Arthur J. Schmitt Scholar Foundation,

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it's a scholarship and it's a one year program

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and students can go into it

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and they can create their own social justice project.

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So I chose to work

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with a specific group here at school all three years,

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and my first year was with high schoolers

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and bringing them to Dominican

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to show them the resources that they have.

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A bunch of my other friends they did, for example,

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Joy of the Diaspora this year, which is highlighting Black joy

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and making sure that Black students are

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seen and heard on campus.

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And in terms of civic internships,

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it's such a valuable learning experience.

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I've taken every single civic internship

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that I've had the opportunity to take

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because the experiences

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and the things that you learn during those internships,

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they carry on tremendously throughout not only your academic

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years, but also your future careers.

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A lot of the skills that I've learned, for example,

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from my Civic Willenborg internship, though,

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I use those every single day, which are skills

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that are definitely gonna be carrying through in my future

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and in my future career.