Public Relations Committee SEED Cycle 2013-2015 SEED Program Mt. Hood Community College June 2014 What is SEED Program? The Acronym SEED stands for Scholarship for Education and Economic Development. This program is founded by USAID and provides scholarships for leaders with economic disadvantages from different countries in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean. SEED program helps these students develop different skills like learning a new language, improve their leadership skills, and intercultural interaction. pág. 3
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Public Relations Committee SEED Cycle 2013-2015
SEED Program Mt. Hood
Community College
June 2014
What is SEED Program?
The Acronym SEED stands for
Scholarship for Education and
Economic Development. This
program is founded by USAID and
provides scholarships for leaders with
economic disadvantages from different
countries in Central America, Mexico
and The Caribbean. SEED program
helps these students develop different
skills like learning a new language,
improve their leadership skills, and
intercultural interaction.
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Newsletter April – June 2014 SEED Cycle 2013-2015
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Community Services
City of Gresham celebrates the Earth day with an annual recycling event. It is
one of the biggest Recycling projects in Gresham, OR.
With this project the City of Gresham takes noncurbside
items that are classified as difficult-to-recycle items. About 37 students from the
SEED program participated
SEED Students help the community doing volunteer work
doing volunteer work in this event. They did a lot of
different work like attending people that arrived to the
place and directing them to the right spot, taking the
materials out from the people’s cars, separating the different kind of batteries,
putting Styrofoam in bags and uploading those to a
truck, and each of these activities with a little bit of
rain falling on their shoulders but the rain could
not take their smiles away. City of Gresham collected
13,750 pounds of shredded paper, 1,115 yards of plastic,
5,880 pounds of Styrofoam, 3,364 pounds of batteries,
2,000 compact fluorescent lights, and 126 cellphones. This was a great job done by
all the volunteers.
Pleasant Valley community Service
In this community service, students from the SEED program went to Pleasant Valley elementary School to volunteer in the
Earth Day annual event that this elementary school. The volunteers worked with the students of the elementary school
planting different species of plants to help the environment. This work increases the habitat for native species of animals and plants to live and this school is doing a great job helping
the environment.
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As many people know, 5 de Mayo is a big Latin-
American celebration that represents freedom to the people. With the pass of
time it has also became an important tradition that
brings people together. Mt. Hood community college
celebrated this tradition with an event, which provided a little bit of Latin-American
food to the students and some traditional dances.
SEED students from the cycle 2013-2015 performed
three different traditional dances, one from Mexico, another one from
Dominican Republic and the
other one from El Salvador. It is worth mentioning that SEED students prepared
these dances for several weeks with a lot of
dedication to share their culture and to be good
ambassadors of their countries.
5 de Mayo
S.U.N. Program
S.U.N. Program works with kids
in elementary Schools helping and
supporting them with their
homework and doing other
activities. SEED students have
helped this program by doing
volunteer work in Hall
Elementary School. They help the
teachers organize activities such
as basketball, playground
activities, and especially helping
the kids finish their homework
before returning home. The kids
go home happy and ready to
enjoy the rest of the day.
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Every SEED Student has to
learn about different
subjects during the
program. We have taken
some classes about our
scholarship requirements.
English: During the first
three terms SEED students have to learn the English
Language. They learn how to speak the language,
grammar, listening, and writing.
Math: SEED students also
take math classes to understand better the other different classes. The math
class depends on their level. They study from MTH010
to MTH095.
Computer Lab: They learn the basics skills of using computers that include the
skills to use Microsoft Office, Power Point and
Excel.
Botany: They have learned
about the flora of the Pacific Northwest and learned to
write reports about different species. The students get to know many different
species, their scientific name, common name, their