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Ruth Berggren: Many of our service learning projects get started through a mini-grant application.
So we have a program where our students can apply for $200-500 for a CSL project.
It's a very powerful tool because it's our initial way of providing some structure to the service learning experience.
And whenever a student sits down and has to write out what they plan to accomplish,
what their measurable outcomes are going to be, then you're much more likely to have a successful project.
Pablo Tovar: Project Sunshine provided me with the opportunity to provide service learning for children with disabilities.
In the end, I realized that I gained as much, if not more from the children than I provided for them.
Their selflessness, their joy for life, is just something that's very hard to describe. And very humbling.
Martha Medrano: Because CSL is very much student-driven, those projects,
the concepts, the engagement with the community can, in fact, look very different.
But I think that with it being student-driven that's where you tap into the passion.
Daniel De los Santos: You've impacted someone's life in a way that's not easily done.
You've changed their lives and you've changed your life.
Lee Jones: Keeping people isolated in classrooms in controlled environments that's not what medicine's about,
it's not what physical therapy is about, it's not what nursing is about. It's about being out there.
I think we do a disservice to our students, our future health care givers by not putting them in a situation where they can work through the emotional part of it.
Ashley L. Garcia: As a medical student you are stuck in a classroom,
trying to learn this enormous amount of information in the classroom for actually two years.
You don't even get to see patients till the third year.
So one of the biggest benefits of this project was actually getting to reconnect with the community,
to remember why you came to medical school, what your motivation is.
It was a time that we were able to become remotivated, become re-energized.