For 4-H Leader and Neag Student, Learning is a Lifelong Process To me as a kid, UConn was this big, amazing place
Rachael Manzer, with her husband Ken, receives a 4-H leadership award in 2019. Manzer, a STEM educator who has worked with NASA, is a doctoral candidate in the Neag School of Education. (Courtesy of Defining Studios) Copy Link
For Rachael Manzer, a doctoral candidate in the Neag School of Education, life-transformative education takes many forms.
Manzer is a five-year volunteer of the UConn 4-H Program, a leader with the Granby 4-H Club, a member of the NASA Network of Astronaut Teachers (NEAT), and a candidate for commercial space flight through Teachers in Space, Inc. In 2019, Manzer received the UConn College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) 4-H Leadership Award, and was recently selected as the 2021 Northeast 4-H Volunteer of the Year Award. All of these experiences helped lead her to pursue a doctorate at UConn, but the
When East Lyme High School sophomore Tolby Regan is learning remotely, she finds it harder to stay motivated and focused, even though she knows how important schoolwork is to accomplish her goals in life.
She said she s very social and misses talking to people at school but worries that if she is around other people she could spread the virus to her family or people who are more at risk. I may be going through a hard time, but so is everybody else so as long as I keep up with the assignments that the teachers are assigning and doing all the work that I can right now, I ll be at the same level as everybody else, said Regan, who is following the high school s hybrid learning model.
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