Meet Paula Chantana!
Paula is a senior Integrated Studies major with a concentration in Early Childhood Education. Paula has been a Connect2Complete Advocate at Miami Hamilton since our first semester, Fall 2013. Which means this is Paula's 4th semester as C2CA!!
Her desired career is as a school social worker or sign language interpreter. She chose to become an advocate to be able to interact with new students and to help them feel welcome. Her favorite things about being an Advocate are meeting people in her community and helping students with the resources available at Miami.
Her advice to an incoming student is: "When you feel overwhelmed just take a deep breath and count backwards from 10 while saying to yourself 'I can do this because I am a successful student'. "
Paula's favorite foods are seafood and pizza and her favorite sweets are ice cream, brownies, and cookies! She often brings cookies to our Advocate meetings on Fridays.Her favorite colors are blue and pink and her favorite quote is from John F. Kennedy "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.
In the community Paula volunteers with YWCA's Girls Inc. program and works with Kindercare, Child Day Care center!
Paula is currently serving as a Connect2Complete Advocate in Laura Metz's Art181 Concepts in Art class on Tuesday nights. She has previously served in Karen Blount's ABLE Writing class (Fall 2013 & Spring 2014) and Lois Brown's EDT002 (Fall 2014) College Reading.
Civic Engagement Projects:
During the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters, Paula's classes volunteered at Animal Adoption Foundation (AAF)! At the shelter students had an opportunity to social with cats or walk dogs in their "Walk a Hound" program. Students also learned about adoption policies and that AAF is a no-kill shelter. You can read more about their trips in these blogs: AAF & Fundamentals of Writing and Animal Adoption Foundation!
During our third semester of the Connect2Complete program Paula served in EDT002, College Reading with Lois Brown. This class volunteered at Booker T. Washington Community Center. The class reorganized the books in the library and moved one of the shelves to create more study space in the room! Pictures below!!
This semester, Spring 2015, Paula's class will be engaging with the community by sponsoring an art show! Art181 is a Miami Plan art class and while most of the students are not artist they do create art pieces throughout the semester. We're excited for the students to have an opportunity to share their art with the community!
Pictures from Booker T. Washington, Fall 2014
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| Taking all of the books off the shelves |
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| Organizing the books in the hallway by size |
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| Moving the shelf across the room. |
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| Fixing the shelf that broke in the move! |
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| Class picture! |
Connect2Complete at Miami Hamilton wants to give Paula a huge THANK YOU for serving with our program of the past 2 years!!
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