Student Projects
The Hart Leadership Program has a long history of exemplary student work, and we are proud to showcase here a selection of student research projects, internships, and honors theses dating back to 2011. Below, you can explore nearly 400 student projects, filtering by project type, Hart program affiliated with the project, thematic topics, project locations, and project years. The database does not provide the full text of students' projects, but it does provide abstracts of student work wherever available, as well as more information including students' class year and, when applicable, the name of the community partner organization a student worked with to conduct their internship or research. We will continue to expand the database as our students continue conducting phenomenal projects. In the meantime, use the search function below to explore our incredible students' work, and get inspired!
Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Autism and Family Support Among Autism Society West Bengal Training Program Participants
Introduction Background: Literature Review Autism, like many mental disorders, carries with it a stigma across cultures and generations. In India, the stigma associated with autism can be especially heavy because the individual with the disorder is not the only one who carries the burden of diagnosis – the family does, …
Health-Seeking Behaviors, Health Information, and Health Awareness in Bangalore City Slums
According to the National Family Health Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India, the urban population in India should exceed 550 million by the year 2030. As cities are becoming more concentrated, so are low-income slum settlements, areas typically inhabited by people of low socio-economic …
Healthy Lifestyles: Integrating the Healthy Lifestyles Program into the CDF Freedom Schools Program
The Healthy Lifestyles project was undertaken at the Bennettsville, South Carolina, site for the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools program. Bennettsville is the hometown of the program’s founder, Marian Wright Edelman. Ms. Edelman is a prominent civil rights activist who is also an advocate for children’s rights. She founded the …
Implementation of Art Programming at Buena Vista Migrant Farmworker Camp in Watsonville, CA
During the summer of 2013, I worked with a group of about 30 children at the Buena Vista Migrant Farmworker Camp in Watsonville, California through the organization Tutor Outreach Uniting Communities for Change (TOUCCh). The leaders Scott Hallgren and Andy Archibald recruit college students from San Jose and Santa Cruz …
Literacy Through Photography: Improving Children’s Confidence, Self-Expression, and Creativity Through Photography Education
Section 1: The System’s Failure: Overstudying Children and Loss of Individuality The Korean education, publicized as a system that produces students who produce perfect standardized test scores, has recently been exposed of its critical failure in fostering the humaneness within children. With the society’s emphasis on admissions to high-ranked colleges, …
Relationships of Recovery
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