What Do We Know? Reflections from Bengaluru PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Diya Patel For her reflective essay on her experience teaching in an ashram with DukeEngage India in Bengaluru, Diya Patel T’26 … Read more
No Such Thing as Too Many Sunsets PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Sierra Putney For her reflective essay on her experience working at the Bantu Cultural Institute in DukeEngage Brazil – Bahia, Sierra Putney … Read more
DukeEngage Kaihura Knows Change PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Zofia Chmiel For her Ignite talk about her experience building a secondary school in Kaihura, Uganda with Duke Engineers for International … Read more
Finding Community, During and After DukeEngage PublishedFebruary 16, 2024 by Jason Kreinberg, Dhruv Rungta In the following profiles, two students share how DukeEngage programs helped them to connect to communities on the ground — … Read more
“Increasingly Aware of Life”: Ceremonies, Markets, and “Adventure” in Togo PublishedAugust 25, 2023 by Sasha Faison DukeEngage Togo collaborates on several projects with two Togolese villages, Kuwde (in the mountains) and Farendé (on the plains). Most … Read more
Programming that Matters: Creating a Digital Platform to Streamline NGO Reporting in Jordan PublishedAugust 25, 2023 by Leah Nickelsburg In this first year of the DukeEngage Jordan program, students worked with partnering organization ILearn on a variety of projects … Read more
“Making Thirteen-Year-Old Me Proud”: Teaching Girls STEM in Orange County PublishedAugust 24, 2023 by Emma Huang Working with Girls Incorporated (Girls, Inc.) of Orange County, Calif., DukeEngage Orange County students teach at a four-week, STEM-focused summer … Read more
Make sunshine, not shade. PublishedOctober 20, 2022 by Anna Schilling On Thursday, 21in’21 (a grassroots organization promoting womxn-identifying candidates for local office) had its first meeting for the newly formed … Read more
Dancing in the Dark PublishedOctober 13, 2022 by Andrew McCallum I can’t dance. When the music starts playing, I can only manage to flail around like I’m the Scarecrow from … Read more
Building social resiliency through story-telling PublishedOctober 11, 2022 by Tommy Klug The COVID-19 pandemic was isolating for many, including kids who lost opportunities for social interaction and development. To address this … Read more