Then there's the emotional toll of ending the tutoring relationship. Mid-quarter, Ortiz was already anticipating the loss. I want to know that the child I've been tutoring will succeed. Ortiz, who moved to California after graduating in June, suspects she would have continued to tutor her student had she remained in Seattle. She would not have been the first to do so.
Students frequently continue to volunteer long after the program ends.
One former student even created a continuing partnership between her elementary school class and her sorority. One of the things that makes this program so effective is that it brings together experiential and academic learning in a serious way. It can lead students in directions they might never have anticipated. The outreach program, created by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and funded by the National Science Foundation , was adopted by the UW Department of Astronomy last fall. What was particularly appealing was the program's flexibility.