Project SHINE: Students Helping in Naturalization and English
PROJECT SHINE UPDATE
Applications for the Project Shine leadership team are now open!
Staff position descriptions are here and applications here.
Application timeline:
- April 11th at 11:55pm: Applications are due
- April 15-20th: Interviews for leadership team
- April 22nd: Applicants notified
- April 28th at 7:30pm: Meeting with new and returning SHINE staff members
Site and program descriptions for Spring 2013 can be found here.
Important Dates for the Spring 2013 volunteers:
- January 8th through January 27th at 11:55 pm: Registration open (late registration will not be accepted)
- January 29th: All volunteers receive SHINE assignment
- January 30th (6-7pm) and 31st (7-8pm) in White Hall 206: Attend mandatory training session required for ALL new SHINE volunteers (pick one to attend). Returning volunteers are strongly encouraged to attend (returning volunteers must complete waivers before beginning volunteering for the semester).
- Week of February 4th-9th: Begin SHINE volunteering at assigned community partner site
- March 11th-16th: Spring break, no volunteering
- Week of April 22-27th: Last week of SHINE volunteering
Please email Caitlin Keesee at ckeesee@emory.edu if you have questions regarding Project SHINE.
2012-2013 Project SHINE Student Leadership Team:
SHINE Coordinator: Caitlin Keesee
SHINE Student Coordinator: Gabbie Clark
Attendance Trackers: Doudou Song and Ruoying Xiong
Site Leaders: Amaka Ifeadike (RFS @ Stone Mountain)
Claudia Rowe (abroad Spring 2013)
Evodie Versulien (Montclair ES)
Gabbie Clark (Student Coordinator & GPTC - CEC and Starnes Center/Global Village Project liaison)
Jennifer Lin (CPACS)
Kim Edmunds (Clarkston Community Center)
Leah Dodell (Fugees Family)
Lisa Li (Catholic Charities of Atlanta)
Michael Cranford (RFS @ McLendon)
Xiaoxin Yu (BPSOS)
Yunmeng Wang (Cary Reynolds)
You can check out the SHINE blog at http://emoryprojectshine.wordpress.com/about/! This blog is a place for Emory's Project SHINE volunteers and community partners to share their experiences. Please send your posting to EmorySHINEblog@gmail.com, so that it can be published on the blog.
PROJECT SHINE SUMMARY
Project SHINE (Students Helping in Naturalization and English) is a service-learning program that links Emory students with refugees and immigrants who are trying to learn English, become U.S. citizens or succeed in school. SHINE volunteers function as tutors or teacher's assistants in English as a Second Language classes, citizenship 
preparation classes, or after school programs. SHINE participants select the organization and volunteer times that work with their schedule and commit to volunteer once per week for an entire semester for approximately 2 to 4 hours each week.
Project SHINE partners with different community organizations in Atlanta, and SHINE volunteers are able to select the site and the class time when they would like to volunteer. To learn more about each of our community partners, click on the links to their respective websites below.
Center for Pan Asian Community Services
Georgia Piedmont Technical College
Emory students participate in the SHINE program through one of two ways: 1) they participate in order to obtain credit for one of their classes, or 2) they volunteer on their own time and for their own, diverse purposes. Professors from various departments on Emory's campus have elected to incorporate Project SHINE into their courses. We've had students from several Latin American Studies classes, Educational Studies Classes, Freshman Seminars, and many more. If you are a student or professor who is interested in learning more about designing a course that incorporates Project SHINE, or enrolling in a course which will allow you to participate, please email the Project SHINE Coordinator, Caitlin Keesee, at ckeesee@emory.edu.