APPLES 2012 award recipients Maggie Peng ’12, Jatin Desai ’05, Tiffany Washington ’00, Father Tony Rojas of
the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry,
and Susan Chandler of the Arc of
Orange County.

2012 APPLES award recipients honored

By Nicole Beatty '15

UNC students, faculty, alumni and community partners connected to APPLES have shown their passion to help their community in many ways. Through internships, alternative breaks and service-learning courses, they have all worked to support service-learning at UNC. In appreciation, APPLES recently hosted its annual awards brunch to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to service-learning with APPLES.

APPLES spring intern Aja Kennedy '12.

Spring intern gains invaluable experience

By Karen Obando ‘13

When Aja Kennedy ‘12 applied for an APPLES spring internship, she had already discovered her passion for education through various academic roles on campus. As a romance languages and international studies double major, Kennedy has served as a Spanish course teaching assistant, created lesson plans for Latino community members enrolled in ESL classes and tutored language students at the Learning Center. Her dedication to education explains why she was drawn to an APPLES spring internship where she could travel to different schools in the area and interact with elementary school students. Kennedy’s internship position at the North Carolina Botanical Garden also broadened her understanding of environmental education and gave her a chance to explore new topics outside of international and language studies alongside of her fifth-grade students.

Executive Vice Provost Ron Strauss congratulates Camille McGirt ‘13 and Kristen Bowen ’13 on receiving a Bryan Social Innovation Fellowship for Healthy Girls Save the World.

Revamped APPLES fellowships highlight wide variety of
service-learning efforts

By Meghan Robbins ‘13

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a large number of institutes and organizations across campus supporting and funding young social entrepreneurs. Historically, the Carolina Center for Public Service (CCPS) and the APPLES Service-Learning program have offered several opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students through various fellowships that support social entrepreneurship in local and international communities. Recently CCPS and APPLES implemented a new approach to fellowships. While continuing to provide significant funding to young entrepreneurs, the new structure also offers access to more technical expertise, administrative resources and enrollment in a public policy course focused on launching new social innovation projects.