Students in Service Learning at Kapiʻolani Community College have many options of how to spend their time and add hours to their service learning logs.
Talk Story Sessions about Sustainability, is sponsored by Kapiʻolani Service Learning and Secrets of Success (SOS) and is an official SOS workshops give students, faculty and staff a chance to generate conversation on topics like arts, history and culture, environment, bridging generations, education and more, according to Melisa Vargas, service-learning outreach coordinator.
But, these talk story sessions aren’t only open to KapCC service learning students, they’re open to any students who want to attend. The sessions, again, are meant to stimulate conversations among those on campus, including students, faculty, staff and even community partners, or those who work with service-learning students in the field.
“These sessions are important in helping students to see how their individual contributions to the community play a role in making Hawai‘i and the Earth more sustainable,” Vargas wrote in an email correspondence.
However, students who are in service learning will be able to share their service with others at the session. The topics in these sessions are based on the six service-learning pathways that consider issues and questions that the community has to think about, Vargas explained.
“Since service-learning students have a required reflection assignment,” Vargas wrote. “Participation in these sessions is useful because it gets them to thinking about their service and the larger context of the community.”
Vargas also explained that these sessions are important in helping students recognize and see how their individual contributions play a role in the community and in making Hawai‘i and the Earth more sustainable.
“We all are co-creators in making a better, more sustainable world.”
For more information:
Next Talk Story about Sustainability
Oct. 17 from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. in ʻIliahi 231, ʻeha.