{"id":19687,"date":"2012-11-22T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19687"},"modified":"2012-11-22T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T17:07:37","slug":"concurrent-ed-student-recognized-for-community-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/11\/concurrent-ed-student-recognized-for-community-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Concurrent ed student recognized for community contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Krissa Donahue<\/p><\/div>\n

When you take into account lectures, seminars and homework, a student’s life can be hectic enough, never mind the extracurricular activities in which they take part.<\/p>\n

But Krissa Donahue was able to find time through it all to make a significant difference in her community.<\/p>\n

The fourth year concurrent education student organized an event at Westmount Public School that kick-started the school’s Halloween for Hunger campaign, donating 471 cans of food to the drive for Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold.<\/a><\/p>\n

But it didn’t end with just a donation. She invited the school’s Me to We club to listen to a speech on the importance of volunteering by Adam Venning, the volunteer and charities co-ordinator with Brock University Students’ Union.<\/a><\/p>\n

Students then kicked up their heels, learning new moves from Brock Dance instructors, did crafts and refueled on healthy snacks.<\/p>\n

“Since my event, the school has collected a record amount of cans for Community Care,” a proud Donahue said.<\/p>\n

Students have donated about 1,000 cans of food.<\/p>\n

Aspiring to be a primary school teacher, Donahue said she’s passionate about instilling in children the idea of being the best you can be at an early age.<\/p>\n

Donahue was recognized last week for her efforts by Samsung’s Mobile Canada team, who presented her with a $1,500-scholarship for placing fourth in Samsung’s National Leadership Program. Donahue also won a new Samsung Galaxy S3 for making it into the top-20 in Canada.<\/p>\n

“I was stunned when I received the phone call from Samsung,” she said. “I never thought going about my daily life would have an impact on others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you take into account lectures, seminars and homework, a student’s life can be hectic enough, never mind the extracurricular activities in which they take part. But Krissa Donahue was able to find time through it all to make a significant difference in her community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[328,133,98,3324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19711,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions\/19711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}