Rebecca Keay / The Daily Campus
Meredith Tavallaee and Dylan Smith are two students who received Engaged Learning grants, Tavallaee will be traveling to Paris and Smith wrote a novel.
Meredith Tavallaee and Dylan Smith are two students who received Engaged Learning grants, Tavallaee will be traveling to Paris and Smith wrote a novel. (Rebecca Keay / The Daily Campus)
Engaged Learning provides a learning experience through student-driven, goal-orientated project anywhere in the world. This year 65 students were approved for Engaged Learning projects for the 2013 to 2014 year. Fifty-five projects are brand new and 10 are continuing from last year.
“The Engaged Learning project supports the students providing solutions to problems in the world,” Meleah Chriss, the assistant director of Engaged Learning, said.
Some students will be doing research projects while others will engage in internships.
Dylan Smith, a graduating senior, worked on an Engaged Learning project during summer 2012. The English major spent his summer at SMU’s campus in Taos writing his first novel, “Home and