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Lily Schwartz E-Portfolio
Lily Schwartz E-Portfolio
Eastman Leaders are tasked with creating an end of year E-Portfolio if they chose to showcase their projects and work.
Accessible Basketball Showdown: Lily Schwartz
Accessible Basketball Showdown: Lily Schwartz
Aging Wisely: What's Possible In Dementia?
Aging Wisely: What's Possible In Dementia?
Neurodiversity, if it isn’t already in your life, will show up. Are you afraid of dementia, and would you like a chance to understand it better? Do you want to learn how to communicate with people whose brains work differently than yours? This CPS event will give you some practicable skills to do just that.
Beth Nolan, a speaker certified with the dementia care organization, Positive Approach to Care (PAC), will educate us on what dementia is, what differentiates it from Alzheimer's, and how to enjoy a wonderful, fulfilling life while living with dementia. The virtual talk will be followed by an intergenerational panel with opportunities for audience Q&A.
This event is affiliated with Intergenerational Book Club, Eastman Leaders, and ASPEC. An independent donor, Eastman Leaders Scholarship, the Independent and Collaborative Ventures (ICV) Fund, and General Education provided financial support.
Dance For a Change
Dance For a Change
As a part of Emma Rodriguez's Discovery Plan and Paying Eckerd Forward element, she and her Co-President Georgia Cox and future Co-Presidents Julieanna Acevedo Carrasquillo and Gelson Correa Jr. planned and hosted with Dynasty and Face Autism a social dance performance, lessons, and educational talk on the benefits of social dance! This intergenerational dance was a fundraiser supporting Face Autism, which is a Sarasota nonprofit that provides sensory-friendly activities and therapeutic services for children with special needs. Dynasty Dance ballroom hosts over 200 children and adults with special needs in social dance lessons weekly, their team being called the Dynasty Stars. The fundraiser was open to ASPEC, OLLI, Westminster Communities, Dynasty Ballroom Dancers, professors, and all students. The event included an educational presentation that discussed the positive impact of social dance on ones' mental and physical health, something that Emma explores greatly in her discovery plan centered around migrations' impact on ones' overall health. Learning how holistic healthcare and public heath initiatives can be, experiencing how dances from cultures different than our own can help build community, and our health was a really exciting part of Emma's Discovery Plan that she was overjoyed to share with the Eckerd and St. Petersburg Community. After the performance by Dynasty Dance's Dynasty Stars and the Partnership Dance Club heads, attendees were then encouraged to break off into pairs to learn Salsa and Swing! $850 was raised for Face Autism!
Bloody Change CPS Event
Bloody Change CPS Event
As a part of Isobel's Discovery Plan, she planned and hosted a Menstrual education program. It was open to ASPEC members, professors, and all students. The event included an educational presentation that discussed existing media that urges menstruation in silence, menstrual taxes, and limits in public education. Social awareness is crucial to stopping the continuation of these issues. Attendees were then encouraged to break off into intergenerational groups to discuss their experiences of menstruation and how it has affected them. To conclude the event, attendees participated in trivia that reviewed topics discussed and gave everyone facts to ponder about for future discussions.
Alex & Summer's Adventure on the Florida Trail
Alex & Summer's Adventure on the Florida Trail
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Leah's Blog
Leah's Blog
"This is my final dissemination for my 'discovery plan,' which is a process of learning that I embarked on at the beginning of fall semester 2020 (my junior year). In essence, it's a documentation of the process of learning and unlearning and frustration that I have experienced over the course of this program and the seminar class attached to it.
This site is meant to provide me a place to organize myself as I learn what kind of person I want to be in the world. Almost like a stream of consciousness that encapsulates the process of completing various steps of my discovery plan; memorialized for future Eastman leaders. Maybe, hopefully, it might be useful to them. If you're not an Eastman student (or are) and you're still confused, check out my first blog post. It provides somewhat of an introduction."
Cat. 5 Magazine: The Life Issue
Cat. 5 Magazine: The Life Issue
cat 5 volume 1 issue 1.pdfDerived from a conversation over cannolis and tart cakes in the heart of Little Italy, NYC, an idea manifested itself on a napkin to give storytellers a new platform to create. The Cat. 5 emerged as a project for members of The Current to explore different interests and stories around the Eckerd community in new and creative ways. Using the medium of a magazine, students embarked on semester-long stories about love on campus, the climate crisis' impact at Eckerd, life and death, Asian-American beauty perceptions, and much more. Completely student-led, created and published, it was a collaborative experience that gave us all an insight into the process of professional publishing.
-Zach Franco
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