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From Compliance to Contribution: What Happens When Students Do Work That Matters

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From Compliance to Contribution: What Happens When Students Do Work That Matters
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By: Nikki Stancampiano and Reem Al-Adhami



Today, Reem Al-Adhami is studying aerospace engineering and has now spent three summers with Power Up Your Potential, a work-based learning program at the PAST Foundation in Columbus, Ohio. After first joining the program as a student, she returned as a peer advisor, helping create for other young people the kind of experience that had shaped her own path.



That is not the Reem her father remembers from just a few years ago.



Reem had always been

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