Empathy to Impact: Student Voices on Global Citizenship Education & Community Engagement

Scott Jamieson: Welcome to the empathy to impact podcast

Scott Jamieson: this is going to be part 2 of our conversation with students at NIST international school in Bangkok thinking about the community Partners week that was happening in the elementary school with students from early years to year 6. And today I am really excited to have toll and Omira back on the podcast with me

Scott Jamieson: to talk about the role Service Co. And the high school students played in organization and delivering the program for communities partner

Scott Jamieson: for community Partners week for the younger learners at their school. Before we start. I'm gonna pass over to them to say a quick Hello.

Tul Sosothikul: Perfect. So Hi, everyone, my name is Tun. I am currently studying at this international school in year 11.

Omaira K: Hi, I'm Omira, and I'm currently studying at NIST in year 12. So Dp program.

Scott Jamieson: So great to have you guys on the podcast today. And I want to start by thinking about your role as service learning leaders at NIST. You're both members of Service Co. Perhaps you can tell our listeners a little bit about what that is and what that entails, and also the different service, learning initiatives that you are part of as students at your school.

Tul Sosothikul: Sounds good, so I'll give a brief introduction of service. Co service call is short for the service core team. Think of us as like the Parent Service Service Group, we sort of oversee all service group that happens at this, whether it be facilitating the rise of new service groups facilitating new project proposals, or even facilitating connections between external community partners.

Tul Sosothikul: Oh, Mario, do you want anything? Do you want to add on anything.

Omaira K: I'll just add on to that. So exactly like Ton, said Service Co. Is kind of like the Board of Service. Well, the student Board of Service at NIST. So we kind of also act as a bridge between the secondary leadership team. So the teachers, and all of the additional support from our leadership.

Omaira K: in in terms of also getting these proposals and service initiatives like proposals approved, and then obviously putting them into action. So we're kind of almost like the logistical behind the scenes, coordinators of all the service that happens at NIST.

Scott Jamieson: Yeah.

Tul Sosothikul: And.

Scott Jamieson: Love. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Tul Sosothikul: I'm sorry I was just about to start with my own service initiatives here at this.

Scott Jamieson: Alright. Let me just I wanna just drop something in there quick.

Tul Sosothikul: Yeah.

Scott Jamieson: I love how much ownership students have over this at your school. I think it's really amazing the responsibility that students have taken on and really stepped up

Scott Jamieson: to do some of this work, to take this off of teachers shoulders and really have this as a student owned kind of initiative where we're thinking about different ways that students can get involved, whether it's new clubs and new initiatives, or just the coaching that you guys do with some of the other service groups and also your own service groups you're passionate about, and I'd love to hear a little bit more about those.

Tul Sosothikul: Sounds good, so I think I'll start off. I'm currently a part of 3 service groups.

Tul Sosothikul: The Curate Service Group Forest Rangers and friends of Emmanuel Alchestra.

Tul Sosothikul: So I'll start with. Cured cured is an acronym for collecting upcycling and recycling electronic devices.

Tul Sosothikul: and, as the name suggests, we take the broken, beaten up rundown devices from this community, where they sort of sort it into our bin collecting system, and we take those we test to see if they work? If they do, that's great. We're able to resell them at 70% of the original price. So we are able to repurpose them. If not, we ethically recycle them with our external partners

Tul Sosothikul: and for forest rangers. Essentially, we support the forest rangers who live under the poverty line, who are actively protecting and guarding the forest, forest, and national parks around Thailand.

Tul Sosothikul: And finally, we have the friends of Emmanuel Orchestra. We work in coordination with the Emmanuel orchestra. Hence the name to support underprivileged children with their musical educations.

Omaira K: Cool. And then for me, the main

Omaira K: service group that I'm currently leading and takes up a lot. Most of my time would be beat as one. So our mission is essentially to work towards equity in healthcare by providing underprivileged Thai communities with basic medical supplies, including blood donations, financing local hospitals and our community partners, as well as advocating for health literacy amongst

Omaira K: the youth. So we kind of work. Our main group is like obviously as high school students. We can't directly provide any care because we're not qualified. But there's this amazing not-for-profit medical social organization called where there is no doctor led by Dr. Dave. So

Omaira K: he's up on the border. He's like completely qualified, and he's up on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, and even like in those marginalized communities like the Karen people, for example, who they have, like the nearest city or local hospital, is so far from them, and would be extremely difficult to reach.

Omaira K: So he actually goes up and gives his time and does over like 9 of the communities up in the hill tribes. He works with all of them, and he goes around and doing all of those sort of social work. So we support his work by financing medical supplies and actual finance for food and water and other social initiatives. We also run our local blood drives for the public hospitals here, which

Omaira K: often don't have the resources they need, especially in times of like emergency care situations. So, for example, like the earthquake, so all in all, we've able to help over like a thousand children and 5,000, almost 6,000 now, adults.

Omaira K: So and it's just something we run annually, Biannually, all of our programs Cpr programs and safety trainings for youth, including within ourness community. Yeah. So that's all the work that Bs one does. Which I'm honestly think

Omaira K: I'm just lucky to be part of it and have any part because it was. It's truly amazing as well. When you get to work directly with the hospitals and the doctors and see the work that they do. Yeah, it's amazing. And then the others group that I'm part of is wellness and wellness focuses more on mental health. So increasing the mental health, and wellness within the NIST community, as the name suggests.

Scott Jamieson: Amazing is probably a good word, and for anyone who is not sure these 2 are both high school students. When you think about the work that they're doing, and how meaningful and impactful this is. I think this is a great inspiration to show what young people are really capable of when they have these opportunities. And

Scott Jamieson: I also love. This is something that comes up whenever I'm talking to students from your school. Is that all of your community partners. All the people you're working with are local, based in Thailand, and it allows you to have that direct connection and build those relationships that I think are so important when we're thinking about reciprocal community partnerships and how you know it's impacting our learning, but also having that positive impact with our community partner and our community.

Scott Jamieson: So thank you so much for sharing that I'm just so inspired by the work you do.

Omaira K: Yeah.

Scott Jamieson: How many different. I love the diversity that you guys have in terms of service learning at your school how many different service clubs or initiatives are currently running at your school.

Omaira K: I think there's over like 43 currently. And all of those. So the way most of the service groups work as well as we link our service initiative to a UN sustainable development goal. So all in all, we cover all the different areas which I think is honestly just, incredible, and like shout out to Miss Cindy and the teachers behind the scenes they absolutely

Omaira K: like, carry and help us organize. So much. So. I love what you said before about it. Being student led it 100 is, and I think, that's a huge part of it is like we also want to make sure the

Omaira K: the intent behind it is purely from students, and what they care for what they're interested in doing. But it's absolutely impossible without all the teachers and school support.

Scott Jamieson: And then I love the shout out, I think Miss Cindy is so fabulous, and you've got a lot of great support at your school. This really has become part of your school culture, and it really is part of your school mission as well. When we think about young global citizens

Scott Jamieson: who are having an impact and having a positive, leading, positive change in the world. I think that's what this looks like. And it's not just something up on the wall at your school. It's something that's part of the culture and part of your lived experience as students. And I think that's fantastic. I also think it's really remarkable that you talk about Service Co. Being that sort of parent Service Club to all of these different initiatives.

Scott Jamieson: You know what a great experience for all of you as leaders, and to be part of that, and be able to kind of see how all that fits together. I think it's just so cool.

Scott Jamieson: I want to circle around a little bit to community Partners week. And I wonder if we could just start with kind of an overview from your perspective as high school students of what was community partners week like? And why is an event like this so important for the younger learners at your school?

Tul Sosothikul: Alright. So, as the name suggests. Community partnership week is a week that focuses on the collaboration between secondary students

Tul Sosothikul: and elementary students.

Tul Sosothikul: And I feel like community partnership week is very important and not just for the elementary students, but also for us as like a great learning experience, but specifically for the elementary students. It sort of sets up this mindset as they transition into middle school and really develop that service learning which is sort of really shown throughout all the topics we introduce and explore throughout the week.

Omaira K: Yeah, absolutely adding on to what Tunn said, I think the number one purpose behind it, and like

Omaira K: pure, like essence of community partnership week is to foster that service mindset within the year sixes. So these are kids who are what like 11 years old, 10 years old. And they're now going into our community, not even just the NIST community and us secondary students sharing what we currently do, but also different partners within Bangkok. So a lot of them also got to go on field trips

Omaira K: to actually see, for example, how do you upcycle, or what does recycling actually mean, and then go out and actually help sort through the clothes. For example, yeah. So they're be like able to see firsthand this, what direct action really means, and how powerful service can be.

Scott Jamieson: 100%. I think we talk about planting those seeds with our young learners, getting them ready for the opportunities they're going to have as they move into Nyp and Dp. At your school, and being able to kind of experience that and see that through the work that high school students isn't going out and finding community partners for one off experiences. These are community partners that have existing relationships with your school through your service clubs and ongoing relationships.

Scott Jamieson: I think that's really important to highlight here. This isn't a 1 off event, but really just kind of almost an orientation to service for some of our young learners at all ages, all the way down to Ui, and looking for opportunities, you know, for them to be able to engage in a meaningful way at an age appropriate level.

Scott Jamieson: So I think that's so amazing.

Scott Jamieson: You guys did a lot of work with Year 6 with the experiences they had. We had year 6 students on for our 1st half of this episode for part one.

Scott Jamieson: How did you connect with year 6, and like thinking about your assembly topics.

Scott Jamieson: How did that all come together? Why did you choose what you choose? The kind of experiences that you wanted them to have.

Tul Sosothikul: So once again, I sort of want to refer back to that whole idea of planting the service mindset within them as they transition transition and enter into middle school. We chose 4 main topics to introduce to them that being advocacy, direct action, indirect action, and research, which essentially encompasses all the different types of service action.

Tul Sosothikul: and

Tul Sosothikul: we weren't able to sort of just introduce and explain it to them as it is, because these I do have to say they are quite complex concepts.

Tul Sosothikul: And that's why a very vital aspect of preparation for the community partnership was truly understanding the year 6 students. It's sort of like stepping into their shoes, or in in some sense, sort of going back to when we were still year. 6 students. And sort of think, okay, what really worked for us back then, what really helped our learning? And from there we sort of planned our assemblies, planned our lessons and planned the week out for them.

Omaira K: Yeah, exactly like, Tim said again. Absolutely. So. We planned the week. We kind of knew that one of the days Wednesday in the middle of the week was going to be their direct action day. So that was the day that they could actually go out and help out within the community. So Monday and Tuesday, we 100% knew. Okay, what do we need them to know about service before they can actually participate in it? So I think one of the most valuable parts of what we went through

Omaira K: them is actually the different types of service. So direct action. Often, when we think about service is kind of like the go to mindset of like. Okay, let me go volunteer and do this and do that. But

Omaira K: part of what we really wanted to encourage them. To realize is that research is fundamental and kind of the foundation to all service. Ever. So it's kind of like fostering

Omaira K: this idea that you can't help someone if you don't know what they need. And if you can try and we kind of use this phrase with them a lot. It's doing the right things right. So not having good intent, but poor what's the word? I'm looking for

Omaira K: poor action, or like poor implementation. So in terms of that, getting them to research, recognize the different parts of service first.st And that way, when they were engaging with their community partners, they went, and they were already educated on it. They already understood, and they could go prepared. And that's kind of what you need to do when you're trying to help people understand what they need. First, st

Omaira K: yeah, exactly, assessment. Basically, a needs assessment.

Tul Sosothikul: Yeah, exactly. And it's sort of thing teaching them to think in this process. It's not like, Oh, we have these different types of service that sort of work separately. No, it's in conjunction with with each other. It's a process that you go through to like, Omira said. Analyze the needs and carry out the appropriate actions.

Scott Jamieson: And building those relationships and building trust to be able to take that collaborative action. And I think a lot of times everyone goes into service with the best intentions. We all want to do good, but if we do jump straight to action without doing our research, without becoming more deeply aware of this issue without taking the time to build relationships.

Scott Jamieson: Oftentimes our action is not going to have the impact we desire, and in some cases it might actually be harmful.

Scott Jamieson: and again, never our intention. But we do see that we've seen that for years happening. When we think about how this interaction goes.

Omaira K: And I was also going to add on to that and say, it's kind of this idea of. We were introduced to this concept actually during our service learning training in secondary by Dr. James, our head of school, and he calls it upstream thinking so

Omaira K: kind of focusing on. Not only do. I want to help the current situation, but thinking upstream, or, in other words, finding the root of the problem because you don't want to be helping a symptom when you could be helping the root, and therefore mitigating this problem occurring again.

Scott Jamieson: I think your action is a great example of that.

Scott Jamieson: you know, rather than doing a collection or raising money for medical supplies and sending them to these villages. No, we're working directly with Dr. Dave, who's there on the ground. He understands the needs. We work directly with him to make sure our action is more impactful. I think that's such a great example of that.

Scott Jamieson: And we talk about empathy to impact and inspire citizens and thinking about, we do want to find something we care about. But we've got to become more deeply aware. We've got to do our research. We've got to think about what kind of skills and knowledge do we need to be able to have an impact before we think about working with a community partner to design an action.

Scott Jamieson: And a lot of times we teach students to be problem solvers right? And oftentimes we want to say, Hey, I know what their needs are without actually having that conversation. And so many times we're maybe just a little bit off. I was chatting with some students recently from Hyderabad in India, and they were looking to work with a school that works with students with visual impairment, and they were all excited to create some books that were in braille for the students.

Scott Jamieson: and they went in and met with the school. And well, actually, we've got a library full of those. What we'd really love your help with is audio books, and they were able to kind of make a bit of a pivot with their project, to address an authentic need rather than a perceived need. And I think that's so so important. When we're doing this, I love how young learners at your school are having an opportunity to engage with this the same way you guys had your training as service learning leaders.

Scott Jamieson: Sorry, just looking at my notes over here on the side.

Omaira K: Not at all.

Scott Jamieson: What were some of actually, I want to go somewhere else first.st

Scott Jamieson: thinking about how this Community Partners Week was organized. It could have been teachers who were leading these workshops.

Scott Jamieson: Why, at your school

Scott Jamieson: do we value this peer to peer learning where high school service leaders are working directly with younger students at your school.

Tul Sosothikul: I think it all boils down to one thing, and that's authentic. Inspiration is sort of them being able to see a future version of themselves a path that they could take that could result in them being sort of like one of us, like actively engaged in service, and passionate about what we do, and I feel like us being able to teach them and directly connect with them, sort of enhances this inspiration.

Omaira K: Absolutely. And I think in complete honesty, I think it's also just a lot more fun for the kids and for us, because we especially between elementary and secondary. We get segregated into different parts of the school, different buildings, so to be able to come together, especially on something a topic as important as service. Learning is really nice for everyone, because the teachers teach them daily. But then for them, exactly like Ton said for them to see.

Omaira K: okay, this is actually something. As I move up into school that that's gonna be me, I'm going to be part of these projects. Yeah, I feel like it's really fun and collaborative amongst the students as well.

Scott Jamieson: I think it's also a great opportunity to celebrate and showcase some of the work that's happening at your school a lot of times, you know, in a big school.

Scott Jamieson: and we're busy. We're all busy people. There's a lot going on at every year level. We don't often know some of the things that are happening in different divisions at our school. So an opportunity like you say, is that inspiration and being a role model, some of those younger students and being able to see the kind of work you guys are doing. And I love that that could be me in a couple of years, and being able to have that little glimpse into the future. I think that's beautifully said.

Scott Jamieson: What were some of the things that you noticed that week as you're working with the students like, what? What kind of reactions did you see from the students who were engaged in this work?

Tul Sosothikul: Curiosity. I'd like to say that there was a lot of curiosity, and I was pleasantly surprised with my 1st assembly session as well. After I finished the assembly, or even throughout the assembly, when I called for interactive bits, they

Tul Sosothikul: they're really engaged. They really ask questions. They sort of

Tul Sosothikul: prod into the service role. And they, it seemed like they really wanted to learn. And that really impressed me.

Omaira K: The other word that comes to mind for me is enthusiasm genuinely. 7 Am. In the morning I was walking in, you know. Not that much energy. But these kids were so excited to hear from us

Omaira K: and learn about service that it just catches on, and it genuinely brought. The whole room was full of smiles and laughter and cheering after every single question, after every single little bit, when they could do their turn and talk. There was not one kid I saw who was like. Oh, I don't want to be here. But no, they were so enthusiastic about the topic. It was. It was honestly inspiring for me. I was like, Oh.

Omaira K: I I miss the days where I had that much energy too.

Scott Jamieson: Amazing. Yeah, I love the energy that you guys are able to bring. And I love how you talk about making this interactive with students, not sitting there talking to them, having this interactive, engaging, and really kind of sharing your passion for this work. I think just being your authentic selves is so powerful when you're making these connections.

Scott Jamieson: I want to think a little bit about sustainability.

Scott Jamieson: And one of the challenges you guys talked about all the different organizations. The service clubs at your school, 43 or more different opportunities.

Scott Jamieson: And

Scott Jamieson: students aren't around forever in high school, you guys are, you know, working towards graduating from high school, moving on to the next step.

Scott Jamieson: How does community partners we play into the sustainability of some of these initiatives? I know that some of the service clubs have been working with community partners for more than a decade at your school.

Scott Jamieson: How does an event like this connect to the sustainability of these initiatives.

Tul Sosothikul: Personally, I feel like it all comes down to

Tul Sosothikul: good leadership. In my opinion, it's

Tul Sosothikul: the leaders of different service group that ensures a legacy. It's like

Tul Sosothikul: you have people that members look up to. And because you have this connection, the members are enthusiastic and passionate about continuing this flame, and this passion as they move on out of high school even. And it's sort of this connection, that sort of last

Tul Sosothikul: forever. In my opinion.

Omaira K: Absolutely. I think the longevity of a service group depends on people remaining passionate and us being able to share that even if they don't necessarily join the groups that we shared about or we're part of.

Omaira K: They. They're able to like you guys, said Ignite that flame of service and the passion for it. And at that point, once they're older, they can 100% see that there are opportunities for them in secondary school for them to pursue supporting any group that they would potentially want to. So just having that in mind from a young age. I still remember when I was in year 6, and I 1st

Omaira K: so at that time it was called the Service Team, the Old Service Co. Essentially, when they came in, and I still remember thinking at that time. Oh, I want to do that, too. So I think a hundred percent especially given the year sixes. And from the very next year year 7 they can already join. Yeah, a hundred. It pushes them towards doing so.

Scott Jamieson: I definitely agree and talked about mindset early on and sort of building this mindset, showing what opportunities are out there. And you know, letting that grow as they kind of work towards and kind of grow into some of these leadership positions potentially later on in their journey. I think that's really cool.

Scott Jamieson: I want to switch things and look a little bit inward.

Scott Jamieson: What is something that you took away as individuals from this week? Something that was a highlight, something you're proud of, something that really inspired you from your role with community partners week.

Tul Sosothikul: For me. I feel like it's the level of connection all these students have

Tul Sosothikul: towards the problem that they're addressing

Tul Sosothikul: one main goal or one main output that we wanted to achieve during this week was for them to understand the prevalence of the issues they're trying to solve and how it relates to their day to day life.

Tul Sosothikul: And like I said earlier, when I mentioned about the

Tul Sosothikul: the amount of engagement I got in my 1st Assembly. A lot of them really really liked to share their own experiences with how they've contributed to solving a specific problem, and all of which relates to what they do every day already, which, of course, really really impressed me.

Omaira K: For me. A big takeaway was I mentioned again their enthusiasm and their passion. And I think, like you said, early on, as we get older and more busy. Sometimes it can be easy to forget, almost like the impact that you're doing. And you're actually having and seeing them. I think it was huge. The difference between the Tuesday, the day before they went and the Thursday. Once they had seen actually firsthand

Omaira K: that experience, my takeaway, was the importance of actually going out at some point and meeting with your having that face to face contact with the community partners. Because I think

Omaira K: once you have that connection, especially in person. Nothing replaces that moment where you can actually see the work that you've been doing and how that's contributed, and for them to

Omaira K: to hear about it, understand about it from us. And then, the day after, once they had come back, and them sharing their experiences like Chun said amongst each other. It's just like, Oh, my God, it's so cool! I saw this, and I saw this and the beekeepers and the animals. So 100%. A huge takeaway for me would have been the importance of at some point having that interaction between community partners and us students.

Scott Jamieson: Love it. And yeah, I think that's so amazing. Just gonna see that deeper connection grow throughout this learning experience throughout the week love you, sharing that and talking about personal connection, and being able to kind of make those personal connections between the actual hands on experience they had, whether that was on campus or off campus, I think, is huge, and it really kind of can make those personal connections for them and inspire them to kind of keep engaged with this work.

Scott Jamieson: Now there is probably a lot of organizational pieces that come into a big event like this. What's some advice you might give to a school. Maybe someone's listening to our podcast and thinking about how amazing a week like this might be for their school. What is some advice from the behind the scenes. Kind of putting together a week like this that you might give to a school. Who's thinking about starting up something like this?

Tul Sosothikul: Wow! I say, there's a lot of points to address. But

Tul Sosothikul: personally the main one that stood out to me, and the one that we focus most of our time on is sort of orienting our sessions to fit the needs and wants of your 6 students. So once again, back to that aspect of really understanding how your 6 students learn.

Tul Sosothikul: and planning accordingly.

Omaira K: Yeah, I would say. Planning is, of course, the number one priority. There. If you're going to host a week like this.

Omaira K: my advice would genuinely be. It really depends on the purpose of the event. So if you're focused on okay, let's just foster a service mindset, or let's just have them be inspired a bit compared to oh, we actually want them to get engaged with this community partner in particular. I think the way you address the needs will be really different. So the 1st thing is, you have to identify the purpose of that week for your school in particular.

Omaira K: and then from there plan around it. How can you make sure that each day brings something new while adding on to the day before, and review it as you go, especially with young kids like we had days where we had a cahoot up, and it was really exciting for them. It's a fun way, just for them to review and actually remember the content we're teaching them as well.

Scott Jamieson: Love it. So, thinking about knowing our audience and understanding our why, as we're setting this up 2 very important pieces of advice.

Scott Jamieson: Omira and tun. Is there anything else that you'd like to share about community partners? We that I haven't asked the right question to allow you guys to share.

Tul Sosothikul: I.

Omaira K: Questions have been great.

Tul Sosothikul: Yeah, I agree, I agree.

Omaira K: Yeah.

Scott Jamieson: Well, thank you both so much for taking a little bit of time to share a little bit of a look behind the curtain at what went into the organization of this event. Your role as student leaders in inspiring the next generation of service learning leaders at your school. I am so inspired and impressed with the work that you all do, and you can find this time in your busy schedules around academics and the other commitments you have.

Scott Jamieson: I think it's really amazing, and I always feel lifted up every time I get to connect with any service leaders at your school. So thank you so much for spending a little bit of time on the podcast sharing your stories and inspiring others with the work you do.

Omaira K: Thank you so much for having us.

Tul Sosothikul: Yeah, thank you for having us

Tul Sosothikul: alright. You guys are fabulous. Nice work.

Scott Jamieson: we are probably going to be in. May. I want to say I'm going to be a lot faster publishing this one than the last one we have a we're not as backlogged as we were the last time we recorded end of the school year. We often get projects coming in. So yeah. Tony was very patient. His podcast we recorded, I think in end of May, maybe early June. I didn't publish till September. This one's gonna turn around a little bit quicker. We're probably gonna do the great. The year 6 is first, st

Scott Jamieson: and then we'll follow up your week or so behind with your podcast

Scott Jamieson: I will share it with Miss Cindy. When that's ready to go. And

Scott Jamieson: yeah, as it's, I'm, I'm so grateful for your time today on a weekend being able to connect and hopefully, I get a chance to say Hi in person when I'm visiting on Monday.

Omaira K: Absolutely. Thank you for the work that you do. The podcast is awesome.

Scott Jamieson: Thank you. It's my favorite part of my job. I do a lot of different things with inspire citizens, but being able to connect with young people like you who are really having an impact and leading by example and showing what's possible and just the power that young people have, that a lot of people dismiss. I think it's

Scott Jamieson: it's overlooked. And I think we need to kind of change our mindsets as adults. So yeah, thank you so much. It's it's great.

Omaira K: Thank you.

Scott Jamieson: Alright. I'll let you guys get back to your weekend, and we'll be in touch soon.

Omaira K: Alright, bye.

Scott Jamieson: Yeah.

Tul Sosothikul: Yeah.

Scott Jamieson: Hi, Ollie! I messed up twin's name in my introduction.

Scott Jamieson: so I'm gonna try just a quick intro here to replace the one at the front

Scott Jamieson: welcome to the empathy to impact podcast

Scott Jamieson: we are back for Part 2 of our visit to NIST international school in Bangkok, Thailand, talking about community Partners week. This is a week where students from ey to year 6 are engaged with community partners that are connected to the student service groups in the high school at their school, and

Scott Jamieson: I am joined by Tun and Omayra, who are service learning leaders from NIST, who are going to share their perspective about community Partners week and their role in inspiring the next generation of service learning leaders at their school. Before we start, I'm going to pass over to them for a quick introduction.

Scott Jamieson: Thanks, Ollie. Just swap it out with one of the fronts, and I don't mess up the pronunciation there.

Scott Jamieson: Really appreciate your help.