{"id":361,"date":"2009-04-20T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-04-20T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:41:52","slug":"bba-weekend-students-give-patients-at-miami-childrens-hospital-something-to-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/04\/bba-weekend-students-give-patients-at-miami-childrens-hospital-something-to-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"BBA+ Weekend students give patients at Miami Children\u2019s Hospital something to treasure."},"content":{"rendered":"

What would help brighten the day of a sick child? Seeking the answer to this question motivated BBA+ Weekend Group 26 to pull out all creative stops for a recent volunteer service event at Miami Children\u2019s Hospital. The end result? More than 100 young patients decorated their own \u201ctreasure chest\u201d as a keepsake from their hospital stay.<\/p>\n

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As part of this Business in Society<\/em> service learning project, the students joined forces with AT&T Telecom Pioneers South Florida Council to put the principles of social responsibility into action. Telecom Pioneers is one of largest industry-related service organizations in the world.<\/p>\n

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BBA+ Weekend students, with help from faculty and AT&T Telecom Pioneers South Florida Council, gathered shoe boxes\u2014soon to become treasure chests\u2014and wrapped them with donated bags from Publix. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robert Hogner<\/strong>, who teaches the Business in Society<\/em> class, noted that \u201cthis second semester of successful engagement with AT&T continues our college\u2019s first major community service collaboration with a global business enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students motivated to \u201cthink outside the box.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked closely with the director of volunteer services to meet the volunteer project requirements for Miami Children\u2019s Hospital,\u201d said project leader Mitzue Stockdale<\/strong>, marketing coordinator, NEO Concepts LLC. \u201cThen our entire group brainstormed ideas on how to make our allotted time at the hospital as fun and meaningful as possible. We decided to pursue the treasure chest craft idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The volunteers took the boxes to Miami Children\u2019s Hospital as part of a community service event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With help from Telecom Pioneer volunteers and several professors from the BBA+ Weekend program, the Group 26 team collected empty shoe boxes gathered from local department stores, then wrapped them with brown paper bags donated by Publix Super Markets to create blank-canvas treasure chests just waiting to be transformed into personalized mementos\u2014with the help of brightly colored crayons, glitter, and stickers.<\/p>\n

For the actual service event, a smaller team visited the children and helped them create their unique treasure chest. As part of the activity, volunteers from the hospital\u2019s Radio Lollipop, an internal radio and television network, featured several of the participating children on their daily broadcast.<\/p>\n

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The children created their own treasure chests.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis project was a true success\u2014one that put a smile on the children\u2019s faces,\u201d said Cindy Esquivel<\/strong> (BBA \u201901), community service chair, AT&T Telecom Pioneers South Florida Council. \u201cIt shows what can be accomplished through creativity and teamwork.\u201d<\/p>\n

One good deed leads to another.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile our time with the children was brief, there is no doubt that we lifted a few young hearts,\u201d Stockdale said. \u201cWhat\u2019s more, I\u2019m proud to say that it seems our project may be the first of many to come with Miami Children\u2019s Hospital, as the BBA+ Weekend Group 27 joined the cause and coordinated an Easter basket activity for the children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would help brighten the day of a sick child? Seeking the answer to this question motivated BBA+ Weekend Group 26 to pull out all creative stops for a recent volunteer service event at Miami Children\u2019s Hospital. The end result? More than 100 young patients decorated their own \u201ctreasure chest\u201d as a keepsake from their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[437,1926,2157],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}