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of Scott Nalick, Intern, Service-Learning in PPW Documentarian,
University of Pittsburgh, 12/07
Scott first experienced the Service-Learning in PPW program as a student several years ago, when he volunteered for East End Cooperative Ministries. At that time, he worked with two kids in their tutoring program and helped in their food pantry and soup kitchen. "The general mission of Service-Learning in PPW is to introduce the nonprofit sector and service to a community to Pitt students," Scott explains. "This semester students have chosen to volunteer for Make-A-Wish, which grants wishes to children who are terminally ill; Family House, which provides support and housing for those families who have come to Pittsburgh to get medical treatment; Bike Pittsburgh, which promotes bicycling in the city of Pittsburgh; and Crossroads, a new church organization in East Liberty trying to help those in need." Scott met weekly with the service-learning students and with Jean, but he also spent a lot of time working on his own. He discovered that he really prefers to work with people around him, to help generate energy and provide some motivation, which he thinks is useful toknow for upcoming job searches: "I know more about myself, my work style and what I am looking for when I graduate. I only generally work with people during our hourly class per week. Otherwise I work by myself. Generally, I don’t like it but it takes trying it out to learn that. I enjoy to work by myself I would say fifty percent of the time, but working with others usually gives me more motivation." The type of work that Scott did, creating materials to promote and explain the PPW program and Service-Learning in PPW was also helpful, he says, since "it allows you to explore an environment where your work will be produced for the public to see. While in class you receive a letter grade, for this you receive the knowledge that other people will be seeing your work and judging it whether it's good or bad."
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Scott is a Political Science/Communications major with a real interest
in service and the nonporofit sector. As an intern, he worked with
the Sevice-Learning in PPW program. He helped to teach the weekly
class, met with students at their sites to document their experiences,
and wrote articles. His major project has been to create materials
that document the great work students do in the program.