Educational Program of the Year
This award recognizes a program that successfully educated residents, explored intellectual interests, or enhanced academic gusto. The purpose of these programs is to clearly facilitate resident learning and exploration. Attendees were meaningfully impacted, and resources were shared.
Nominees:
"MREs, Military, and Masculinity" by Ben Sylvia (N5)
"Boba and Bookbagging" by Salvador Chavero Arellano, Andy Zhang, Rhea Jain, Gaelyn Dent & Krystal Hu (N5)
Winner:
"MREs, Military, and Masculinity"
by Ben Sylvia (N5)
"Ben utilized his own experience in the Army and his family's involvement with the armed forces to broach a rather sensitive topic in present day society. He Skyped his father, a career military personnel, in to talk about his experience and engage with residents on Veteran's Day." -nominator
Honorable Mentions:
(While these programs were not formally nominated for an award, they are a few examples of the amazing work that was done by our RAs and still deserve acknowledgement!) "Bullet Journal Note Taking" by Tobi West (Few)
"Prepping for Reading Period and Finals with the ARC" by Huzyfa Fazili (N3)
"Meet the Librarians!" by Dominic Van Cleave-Schottland (N1)
"Navigating the 2020 Election" by Sona Suryadevara, Jake Wong, Devinne Moses, Ankit Jajoo (N4)
"Independent? Greek Life? SLG? Advice on Next Semester from Upperclassmen" by Katie Ridgway (N1)
"Mexican Modernism Exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art​" Dahlia Chacon (CW)
"Creative Letter Writing Workshop" by Jared Edwards (Hollows)
"Professional Headshots" by Sagar Shah (N1)
"Anyone Can 3-D Print" by Dominic Van Cleave-Schottland (N1)
"Hope Dinner with Dr. Mark Palmeri" by Sarah Putney (CW)
"Study Abroad 101" by Amir Perk (N5) and Regan Baum (N1)
"Musescore and Mandarins" by Stacy Chen & Simeon Holmes (N3)
"Let's TACO-bout contraception!" by Sunrita Gupta and Mikalea Johnson (N5)
"Networking 101 and Duke Alumni" by Sagar Shah (N1)
"Prisoner of the Mountains Russian Film Screening" by Laylla Jimenez-Villalobos (Edens)