Anything Else?
7 ) Anything else you’d like to add? Any advice for prospective applicants or observers in the education field?
Aaron Frumkin - Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
This experience is invaluable regardless of your future field of work! It teaches you to...
This experience is invaluable regardless of your future field of work! It teaches you to better yourself, more than anything, which is immensely helpful in all walks of life.
Emily Figueroa - Hometown: New York, NY
If you are at all interested in education in any capacity, definitely DEFINITELY apply...
If you are at all interested in education in any capacity, definitely DEFINITELY apply to Blue Engine. There is no other program like it. It allows you to explore what it’s like to be in a school and teaching kids without having to confront every single challenge by yourself. Also, you will meet some of the most incredible people in the world.
Willy Golden - Hometown: New York, NY
Blue Engine is a place for educators looking to connect with students.
Blue Engine is a place for educators looking to connect with students.
Josh Espinoza - Hometown: McAllen, TX
Be sure you really do feel drawn to this sort of service work.
Be sure you really do feel drawn to this sort of service work.
Lauren Gleason - Hometown: Annapolis, MD
Apply to Blue Engine. It rocks.
Apply to Blue Engine. It rocks.
Kate Holding - Hometown: Moraga, CA
Although Blue Engine may sound like a difficult experience (which it definitely is), challenging yourself allows you to...
Although Blue Engine may sound like a difficult experience (which it definitely is), challenging yourself allows you to grow immensely as a person. Living on a small stipend only adds to the gratification you get from impacting the lives of so many students. Additionally, being part of such a young organization allows for so much input on the daily activities and function of your classroom, and the larger organization as a whole. Take a year and give back!
- What made you decide to do Blue Engine over other national service programs?
- What’s it like living on $1200 a month in New York City? Is that some kind of joke?
- What does a typical day look like?
- How was training? Do you feel like Blue Engine prepared you for the academic year?
- What are some of the pros/cons of working alongside teachers and other members of your team inside classrooms every day?
- What kinds of opportunities are you exploring in the year(s) beyond this current service experience? In what ways has Blue Engine helped clarify and/or confuse your thinking on this?
- Anything else you’d like to add? Any advice for prospective applicants or observers in the education field?
