SEED STUDENTS 2013 – 2015 ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE

Leadership, Service and Internship Experiences

Scholarships for Education and Economic Development (SEED) students at St. Louis Community College volunteer in service to the community. Students draw on these experiences to develop Commitments to Action, projects designed to benefit their home communities.

Cycle 2013 – 2015 student commitments include projects in the areas of:• Education• Water Purification• Repurposing and Recycling• Wildlife Conservation• Poverty Alleviation• Sustainable Agriculture

St. Louis area partner organizations include:• Earthdance Farms• Girls on the Run• Rebuilding Together• Missouri River Relief

SEED and YFU students participated in the STLCC-FV Ferguson community service initiatives.

In 2015, 10 SEED students from St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley were invited to attend Clinton Global Initiative University based on their Commitments to Action for their home communities.

Pictured here, Westenior Valmera from Haiti with President Clinton. Anderson Lima from Guatemala is in the background wearing a cap.

• Held during CGI U • STLCC SEED students Ninosca Mercedes, Dominican Republic

and Anderson Lima, Guatemala, Semi-finalists• Anderson Lima, Resolution Fellow

RESOLUTION PROJECT SOCIAL VENTURE CHALLENGE 2015

STLCC-FV SEED students complete internships at business and industry partners in the metropolitan St. Louis area. SEED 2013 – 2015 Quality Technology Internship sites include:• Urban Chestnut Brewing

Company• BJC Hospitals• Herbaria• Swiss-American Cheese • Valley Industries• Bizmanualz

Swiss-American Cheese

Christian Hospital

Bizmanualz

Christian Hospital

Herbaria

Urban Chestnut Brewing Company

Valley Industries

Leadership Development occurs through coursework, presentations, committee work and networking at professional organizations. Among the events this year were: • YMCA TeamWorks workshop• Toastmasters Speechcraft

class• Presentations at Global

Gatherings, Global Expo, Women’s History Month and Global Symposium.

• Monthly ASQ meetings

ASQ Presentation

Global Symposium Presentation

Global Institute Expo

Trout Lodge TeamWorks Alpine Tower

Global Gatherings Performance

SEED 2013 – 2015 students shared their cultures at area school, company and organization events including: • Boeing Diversity Council

Latin American Culture event

• Boeing Hispanic Heritage Month

• Boeing Diversity Expo• Express Scripts Diversity

Day• YMCA After School

Programs• Lutheran Senior Center

Party

Eleven SEED students inducted into Phi Theta

Kappa

Sixteen SEED students inducted into National

Technical Honor Society

Seven SEED students were selected to attend the 3 Day Startup, an intensive weekend entrepreneurial workshop. They had to develop a business plan and pitch the business to a panel of experts.

SEED Midwest Leadership Conference 2015• Five SEED colleges represented• Held at Fox Valley Technical College• STLCC Students presented workshop on “Interview

Skills”