The Education Foundation of Sarasota County: Comitmment to Community

Authors

Eric Kallas, University of Central FloridaFollow
Gabriel Cordero Arrieche, University of Central FloridaFollow
Quinn Fitzgibbons, University of Central FloridaFollow
Julissa Medina, University of Central FloridaFollow
Karl Johnson, University of Central FloridaFollow
John McMahon, University of Central FloridaFollow

Streaming Media

Files

Course Code

LDR

Course Number

2002

Faculty/Instructor

Dr. Haley Winston

Faculty/Instructor Email

haley.winston@ucf.edu

About the Author

We are LEAD Scholars students who got the amazing opportunity to work with the Education Foundation of Sarasota County. We are all Freshman at UCF in various majors. Most of us are engineering majors and one of us is a business major. The Education Foundation was an incredible partner to work with. We would like to thank all of the board members of the Education Foundation for all of their help and their willingness to participate in our project.

Abstract, Summary, or Creative Statement

We are working with the Education Foundation of Sarasota County to assist them in getting students prepared for a future at college; while the organization has many other objectives and activities, this is the one we are focused on. We chiefly do this by acting as a volunteer for online workshops, as we are too far away to reliably provide in-house assistance. Our assistance was built upon providing students advice on what colleges are looking for in potential applicants, and to how to get into them as part of one workshop, and assisted with general ACT and SAT prep in another. In our time with these students, we gathered a better understanding of what said students need to thrive, and what they have been left lacking when it comes to being prepared to be young adults. We also picked up more hands-on experience in attempting to assist these students, learning what is most effective in teaching them. Each workshop has about 30 people, and we spent time with two separate groups as a part of our workshops, resulting in 60 teens finding the help that they needed, either in preparing for important exams, or preparing for getting into college.

Keywords

LEAD, LEAD Scholars, Education, Sarasota, 7c's, LDR2002

Recommended Citation

Kallas, Eric; Cordero Arrieche, Gabriel; Fitzgibbons, Quinn; Medina, Julissa; Johnson, Karl; and McMahon, John, "The Education Foundation of Sarasota County: Comitmment to Community" (2025). High Impact Practices Student Showcase Spring 2025. 35.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hip-2025spring/35