Author: zmedina

My name is Zuleyri Medina-Campos, and I am currently a sophomore at SIUE, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Pre-law. My professional goal is to become an immigration attorney, and ultimately, I aspire to open my own law firm, allowing me to take on meaningful cases while being my own boss. Some of my key experiences have been instrumental in shaping my academic…

I am currently working on a brochure that will be passed around at our conservation event and pass around on campus in general. The brochure is based on a tagging monarch event hosted by Heartlands Conservancy that I attended to conduct interviews for my group project. The brochure has information on the event, pictures of…

The process of receiving feedback looks like for me is of course, doing the required assignment due. The most important step in receiving feedback after doing an assignment, is turning it in. With turning in the assignment, it will allow me to receive feedback from my professor or whatever the case may be. I later…

My name is Zuleyri Medina-Campos, and I will be writing about my project that I worked on the past semester. Our wicked problem is based on young adults and why they don’t engage in conservation activities. We would like to know this is so and what we can do to help change young adult point…

What is the purpose?  Who is this project made for? Why is it important? What ethical considerations? What working practices will you adapt? 

Our project is based on getting young adults engaged in conservation. Conservation is important especially to imply at a young age so individuals can later grow to be comfortable with conserving for our earth. Our goal is to reach young adults ages 18-25 such as college students. We chose to mainly focus on young adults…

Revising your work is extremely important. To revise my work, I will read my work out loud to help me watch grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes. By reading out loud, I can correct anything that needs to be corrected and maybe even add new ideas to my assignment. This will allow my work to flow…

My experience on-site was overall amazing. I enjoyed my own company while brainstorming ideas for my final project. This experience allowed me to really sit and think about interview questions. This is all so new to me. I’ve never had to interview anyone let alone did a project on interviewing individuals. I enjoyed attending Dr….

Data collection As a CODES group, we are working with the community organization Heartlands Conservancy. My groups overall project question is “how can we get young adults ages 18-25 engaged in water conservation and conservation volunteering?”. We are all currently working on our own projects within this question. For my project, to collect data, I…

Although their age range is younger (13‑18) and my target is (18‑25) it is still relevant in terms of engaging youth in water/ environmental management and monitoring. Their project is about surface water quality monitoring and ecological assets in an urban watershed. My project looks at how to get young adults engaged in water conservation…