{"id":77544,"date":"2017-05-18T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=77544"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:34:12","slug":"ucf-hosts-evans-high-school-students-at-youth-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-hosts-evans-high-school-students-at-youth-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Hosts Evans High School Students at Youth Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaders from Evans High School and University of Central Florida came together for a day of service, networking and award recognition.<\/p>\n

Forty juniors and seniors from Evans participated in the inaugural Leadership for Educational Attainment Developed through Service Youth Summit May 2 at UCF.<\/p>\n

LEADS is a collaborative leadership program between the Center for Community Partnerships<\/a> and Evans High School, A Community Partnership School in Pine Hills. The program allows middle and high school students to develop leadership skills through service-learning projects to help address social issues in the community that are important to the students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese programs are essential \u2026 because we want these students to know there are opportunities to continue to do things they are engaged in now when they move to a campus community,\u201d said Jarrad Plante<\/a>, Ed.D., CNP, program coordinator for the Center for Community Partnerships in the College of Health and Public Affairs at UCF.<\/p>\n

Plante managed the program while working at the University of Massachusetts. The program has three major goals: increase school and civic engagement; increase leadership knowledge, skills and abilities; and further develop student appreciation for and understanding of the importance of educational attainment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students are learning, through either articles or brainstorming, about different service needs in their community,\u201d he said. \u201cSo they are learning the social topic and learning skills to execute a plan of action.\u201d<\/p>\n

LEADS worked with two classes from Evans this year: the Student Government Association and the Minority Leadership Scholars. The SGA class focused on respect, while the MLS class focused on career exploration.<\/p>\n

The all-day summit included a service project with Goodwill\u2019s \u201cGood Soap\u201d program, sorting donations and packing 935 hygiene bags to deliver to the Homeless Network of Central Florida. Evans students also got to meet with adult and student UCF leaders and participate in a scavenger hunt tour of the campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 95 percent of the students, this is their first time at UCF,\u201d said Jennifer Eubanks, senior administrator of The Hub at Evans High School, at the summit.<\/p>\n

Senior Kimani Binder had been to UCF before as a basketball player, but this trip gave him a chance to think about his past and future.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the bus ride here, we (the seniors) reflected on the past four years at Evans,\u201d Binder said. \u201cI\u2019ll be going to Valencia College after I graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the high school students who benefitted from the program; Elif Kelly, a UCF junior and LEADS coordinator at UCF, grew with the students from Evans.<\/p>\n

Kelly worked with the students as they brought community members into the high school to connect and talk to the students, while building and fostering personal relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m 22 and close in age to the Evans students I work with,\u201d she said. \u201cI connect students with the community. You get each other. I love these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

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